Ctrl+AI+Reg - 4 April 2025
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Africa
🇰🇪 [27 March 2025] Kenya releases national AI strategy 2025-2030: Kenya has released its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy 2025–2030, with a focus on digital infrastructure, a sustainable data ecosystem, and AI research and innovation, supported by governance, talent development, investment, and ethical AI deployment. Notably, it introduces a regulatory framework for ethical AI use, data sovereignty, and cybersecurity. Key regulatory items include: (1) develop local ethical and safety standards in AI development and deployment; (2) implement AI ethical and safety standards through conformity assessment schemes / safety audits and technical specifications / regulations; (3) develop a national AI risk and safety institute; (4) review relevant legislation (employment and labour relations, intellectual property, computer misuse and crimes, etc.) to reflect the demands of AI and other emerging technology; (5) harmonize East Africa data, tax, and cybersecurity laws for secure and compliant cross-border data transfer and to enhance competitiveness in AI; (6) proactively implement a soft regulatory framework for AI; (7) as AI matures in Kenya, develop an 'AI and Other Emerging Technologies Act' and regulations; and (8) develop a flexible regulatory environment using regulatory sandboxes to inform the development of an AI regulatory framework and standards.