{"name":"Applied AI in Andorra — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Andorra, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/andorra","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Andorra","slug":"andorra","iso2":"AD","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":11,"deployments":5,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":4,"industries":4,"countries":1,"linked":11},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Andorra","org":"Andorra Digital","text":"Andorra Digital's 2026 Digital Divide Study puts AI adoption among Andorran companies at 25%, up on 17% in 2022, third in the European Union. Smaller firms trail at 24% despite forming 80 to 90% of the base, 12% carry ICT staff, and 96% of people go online daily. AI uptake here rests on 2024 replies from 800 residents and 678 companies.","date":"2026-08-13","source":"https://www.alto.ad/business/2026/08/andorra-digital-divide-elderly-smes-skills"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Andorra","role":"Civil protection officer","org":"Protecció Civil","text":"Protecció Civil wrapped up the wildfire-prevention drive with an AI-generated image showing the Madriu valley ablaze. Nothing in the scene is real; the body released the fake picture so Andorra grasps how close an actual blaze could be.","date":"2026-08-05","source":"https://digitalandorra.com/societat/la-inquietant-simulacio-de-la-vall-del-madriu-en-flames-per-prevenir-incendis-a-andorra/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Andorra","role":"Forest technician","org":"Andorra Recerca + Innovació","text":"Andorra Recerca + Innovació heads the pilot in BOSPIR-3D, an Interreg POCTEFA scheme trialling AI forest monitoring with LiDAR, drones and short-range scanners across high-mountain woodland. Teams opened work at Beixalís, La Rabassa and Arinsal following an April kick-off. Virtual reality joins artificial intelligence in reading and displaying the forest inventory data.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://www.alto.ad/environment/2026/07/andorra-3d-scanning-drones-mountain-forests"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Andorra","org":"Consell General","text":"The Consell General passed Penal Code revisions without dissent, tightening Andorra AI regulation: buying child sexual abuse imagery online, AI-generated included, draws prostitution-level penalties. Those AI content rules join a consent age lifted from 14 to 16. Justice and Interior Minister Ester Molné tabled the qualified laws.","date":"2026-07-15","source":"https://www.alto.ad/politics/2026/07/andorra-sexual-consent-age-16-penal-code"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Andorra","org":"Govern d'Andorra","text":"Andorra's Business Digitalisation Programme, open from 8 April, exhausted a €500,000 pot on 178 firms and 368 digital solutions in 2026. AI adoption in Andorran business topped demand with 85 requests. Micro firms drew 69% of grants, small ones 27%, mid-sized 3% and large 1% of this AI uptake.","date":"2026-04-08","source":"https://www.alto.ad/business/2026/08/andorra-digitalisation-programme-closed-budget-a"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Andorra","role":"Filmmaker","org":"Philippe Shangti","text":"Philippe Shangti unveiled Remember the Future: 2320 at Cinemes Illa Carlemany in Andorra la Vella, a 95-minute sci-fi title billed as the nation's earliest AI-generated film. Some 45,000 visual prompts fed the assembly across almost twelve months. Camera crews sat out this AI filmmaking.","date":"2026-04-01","source":"https://www.alto.ad/culture/andorra-referents-exhibition-lita-cabellut--260331"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Andorra","role":"Lawyer","org":"Consell Superior de la Justícia","text":"Andorra's Consell Superior de la Justícia has switched on an AI case-law search holding 15,000-plus rulings, open to lawyers and citizens. Machine-generated metadata tags each entry, letting queries run in plain speech or boolean operators across every decision under one statute. A 4,000-term thesaurus guides the rulings archive, with ECLI codes for cross-border traceability.","date":"2026-01-19","source":"https://laveulliure.ad/ca/article/cercador-jurisprudencia-andorra-ia-15-000-sentencies"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Andorra","org":"Agència Andorrana de Protecció de Dades","text":"A formal probe by the Agència Andorrana de Protecció de Dades, Andorra's Data Protection Agency (APDA), targets Meritxell, the government's AI assistant answering citizen questions on the EU association agreement, examining whether personal data was properly safeguarded in this government AI assistant case. Officials, through spokesperson Guillem Casal, denied storing any personal information and called the scrutiny unexpected, though they admitted an earlier warning had flagged a privacy-policy gap on the official portal, now resolved. At stake: AI data compliance standards for public-sector chatbots.","date":"2025-04-16","source":"https://elperiodic.ad/politica/casal-assegura-que-no-shan-tractat-dades-personals-a-lassistent-dintelligencia-artificial-del-govern/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Andorra","role":"Tax officer, civil servant","org":"Government of Andorra","text":"Andorra piloted AI for public administration in 2025, testing a Ministry of Finance tool for tax checks alongside a natural-language search engine for citizen queries. Marc Rossell said results fell short across both trials, pointing to weak data quality as the root problem, and neither moved beyond internal testing into AI in government services for public use.","date":"2025-03-04","source":"https://www.bondia.ad/societat/la-ia-a-l-administracio-no-ha-donat-el-resultat-que-esperavem"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Andorra","org":"Government of Andorra","text":"A newly created body, the Data Intelligence Agency (AID), now leads Andorra AI governance under the Government of Andorra's Decree 327/2024. Its remit spans executing the national data and AI strategy, building a shared methodology, and drafting ethical and regulatory rules for artificial intelligence. AID also champions real-world projects blending data analytics with AI, shaping the country's Andorran AI governance strategy going forward.","date":"2024-08-28","source":"https://www.diariandorra.ad/opinio/la-tribuna/240830/agencia-d-intel-ligencia-dada_157207.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Andorra","org":"Government of Andorra","text":"Andorra's Government has issued a Code of Ethics on Artificial Intelligence, an official guide steering how ministries, companies and the public approach AI ethics code Andorra requires. Principles cover oversight by humans, openness, safeguarding data and answerability, mirroring benchmarks set by UNESCO, the OECD and the Council of Europe. Certain public-sector uses must follow it; everyone else may choose to apply this responsible AI governance framework.","date":"2024-05-02","source":"https://www.govern.ad/ca/w/el-govern-aprova-un-codi-etic-sobre-intel-ligencia-artificial-ia-1"}]}