{"name":"Applied AI in Belarus — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Belarus, 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/belarus","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":"Belarus","slug":"belarus","iso2":"BY","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":19,"deployments":9,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":4,"regulation":6,"industries":8,"countries":1,"linked":19},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","role":"Customs officer","org":"State Customs Committee of Belarus","text":"Belarus's State Customs Committee plans a customs AI application shifting from electronic to \"intelligent\" processing, applying machine vision to shipping and commercial paperwork attached to declarations. The system will read and cross-check these documents against the declaration, plus scan vehicle images to match each vehicle against its past crossings and similar vehicles, flagging discrepancies to officers. This border control automation targets document and vehicle verification, surfacing anomalies for human review.","date":"2026-09-10","source":"https://belta.by/society/view/ot-elektronnoj-tamozhni-k-intellektualnoj-v-gtk-rasskazali-o-novom-etape-razvitija-800309-2026/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Belarus","role":"Computer science teacher","org":"Ministry of Education of Belarus","text":"Belarus grades six to nine now cover AI in schools under Ministry of Education resolution No. 132, dated 22 July 2026, effective 1 September 2026. Grade eight gets a unit explaining how AI systems in the classroom function and guiding pupils toward responsible, appropriate use, across 139 weekly hours total.","date":"2026-07-29","source":"https://edu.gov.by/news/s-1-sentyabrya-uchashchiesya-belarusi-nachnut-izuchat-iskusstvennyy-intellekt-utverzhdena-obnovlyenn/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","role":"Contact centre operator","org":"Minsk City Executive Committee","text":"Minsk will add AI contact centre agents to the 115.bel housing hotline before the year is out, said Maksim Bardovich, who directs the Minsk City Executive Committee's Information Technology Centre. The agent-bots should shorten how long a request takes to handle and an answer to draft, sparing residents a queue. The hotline logged over 850,000 reports in the first half of 2026, routing them to city services.","date":"2026-07-23","source":"https://news.by/news/obshchestvo/v-pomosch-kontakt-tsentru-115-bel-prikhodyat-intellektualnye-agenty-boty"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"HR & People","region":"Belarus","org":"praca.by","text":"AI job search runs deep among Belarusians, praca.by found: 29.5% do so routinely, 24.4% have tried neural networks on a vacancy at least once, and 20.7% mean to try. A quarter refuse outright. Of users, 63% build CVs and covering letters this way, 53% rehearse interviews, 47% dig into employers and 44% pick apart adverts. Only 12% would hand AI-assisted jobhunting the entire task.","date":"2026-07-17","source":"https://devby.io/news/polovina-belarusov-uzhe-ispolzuet-ii-dlya-poiska-raboty-pomogaet-li"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Belarus","role":"Photo editor","org":"BelTA","text":"BelTA has built AI photo restoration and video work into daily production, director general Andrei Mokhor told the 34th Council of Heads of CIS State News Agencies in St Petersburg. The Belarusian Telegraph Agency animates archival and historical photographs, produces colourised archive footage, generates billboards, posters and infographics, and upscales old frames for large-format exhibitions. Writing or editing copy stays off limits — Mokhor calls that a taboo.","date":"2026-06-03","source":"https://belta.by/society/view/nejroset-instrument-a-ne-mozg-prinimajuschij-reshenija-v-globalnom-smysle-proekty-belta-sozdannye-s-784286-2026/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Belarus","role":"Radiologist","org":"Belarus Ministry of Health","text":"Belarus's Ministry of Health will put AI chest X-ray reading into Minsk healthcare institutions from the middle of 2026, for digital chest radiography. Elena Krotkova, who directs the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre for Pulmonology and Phthisiology, says trained neural networks will stop specialists overlooking minimal pathological changes on an image. A radiologist still reads and signs off every picture, and the ministry intends AI radiology support to reach all regions later.","date":"2026-03-23","source":"https://www.belnovosti.by/minsk/stolichnye-rentgenologi-budut-ispolzovat-ii-kommentariy-minzdrava"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Belarus","role":"Designer","org":"Bellegprom","text":"Belarus's Bellegprom has AI clothing design running at member factories, with the output already on shop shelves. Svitanka knitwear carries appliques and prints drawn that way; Belvest applies the same approach to footwear. Olga Grabenya, the concern's trade and marketing head, says such stock moves through Bellegprom's own branded network. Designers and technologists stay on, because AI-generated prints still need someone judging what shoppers want.","date":"2026-02-28","source":"https://belta.by/society/view/produktsija-s-ispolzovaniem-ii-uzhe-prodaetsja-kak-tsifrovizatsija-menjaet-dizajn-belorusskoj-odezhdy-766979-2026/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","role":"Cartographer","org":"Belgeodesiya","text":"Belgeodesiya is putting AI building recognition into the digital foundation of the State Navigation Map of the Republic of Belarus, per the State Property Committee. Accuracy runs from 65 to 90 per cent, varying with how many storeys a structure has. Settlements across 40 administrative districts have gone through satellite-image building detection, thickening the map's Buildings layer.","date":"2026-02-19","source":"https://belta.by/society/view/goskomimuschestvo-iskusstvennyj-intellekt-pomogaet-obnovljat-karty-belarusi-765402-2026/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Belarus","org":"Higher Attestation Commission of Belarus","text":"Belarus's Higher Attestation Commission has made AI disclosure in dissertations compulsory. Deputy chair Denis Kapskiy says the descriptive section must list the prompts an author ran and where artificial intelligence was involved. Antiplagiat, one of the standard packages used, flags the specific elements where neural networks were applied. Several 2025 dissertations already used machine learning, Kapskiy notes, with declared AI prompts and reasoned argument.","date":"2026-02-17","source":"https://pravo.by/novosti/obshchestvenno-politicheskie-i-v-oblasti-prava/2026/february/92336/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Belarus","org":"rabota.by research centre","text":"Neural networks already run inside business processes at 21% of firms polled by the rabota.by research centre, with 13% intending to adopt artificial intelligence. The centre questioned 2,199 service users in November 2025, from specialists to owners, mapping AI in Belarusian business. Positive feeling towards workplace neural networks reaches 56%, and 43% already draft text, answer professional queries or produce content. Employers apply them mainly in marketing analytics, planning, forecasting, production, staff training and customer service.","date":"2026-01-29","source":"https://belretail.by/article/chto-dumayut-belarusyi-o-razvitii-ii"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","org":"Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus","text":"Civil servants across Belarus can now take a one-day generative AI training for civil servants at the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus. The short course builds skill with ChatGPT, YandexGPT, Gemini and similar systems for producing text, images, audio and video, adding prompt techniques suited to state-body work. It reflects wider momentum behind AI adoption in public administration, with sign-ups running from January to July 2026.","date":"2026-01","source":"https://www.pac.by/services/training-courses/artificial-i/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","org":"Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus","text":"Belarus's Council of Ministers has mandated AI in public administration through Resolution No 793, backing surveillance video analytics powered by artificial intelligence and citizen-facing digital assistants with over 1.08 billion Belarusian roubles through 2030. Three strands carry the work: 'Data Economy', 'Digital State' and 'Digital Sovereignty', part of the 'Digital Belarus' programme effective 1 January 2026.","date":"2025-12-30","source":"https://www.mpt.gov.by/ru/gosprogramma-cifrovaya-belarus-na-2026-2030-gody-kak-budet-formirovatsya-ekosistema-cifrovykh"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","role":"Tax officer","org":"Ministry of Taxes and Dues of Belarus (MNS)","text":"Belarus's Ministry of Taxes and Dues put 300 employees, including 12 senior managers, onto Directum Ario for AI document processing. Across 2,675 tasks, 67% finished without human input, only 0.02% needed fixes, and workflow speed rose 45%. Novacom Systems built the tax-agency automation system.","date":"2025-09-16","source":"https://p-reliz.ru/reliz/2025-09-16-directum-rx-intelligence-shag-k-intellektualnomu-dokumentooborotu-v-gossektore-belarusi--38773.html"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Marketing & Creative","region":"Belarus","org":"Sber Bank Belarus","text":"Sber Bank Belarus puts steady AI in marketing adoption at 79% across Belarusian firms, citing Minsk meetup figures. A mere 9% steer clear of artificial intelligence in marketing, blaming thin awareness over any missing use case. Others lean on content generation, digging up information, analytics, automating tasks and tailoring output.","date":"2025-07-24","source":"https://npr.by/issledovanie-okolo-80-belorusskih-kompanij-vnedrili-ii-v-marketinge/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Belarus","role":"Emergency department physician","org":"Grodno city clinical hospital of emergency medical care","text":"A Grodno hospital's AI assistant emergency department tool now poses over 30 pre-medical screening questions to arrivals, passing replies straight to the attending physician. Built with TeleMed AI laboratory, the launch adds a digital assistants' office and smart queue kiosk. This automated patient-triage technology aims to shorten waits before clinicians see patients.","date":"2025-07-17","source":"https://www.dzyannica.by/content/v-bsmp-nachal-rabotat-ai-assistent-vracha-zachem-nuzhen-kak-rabotaet-i-chem-pomogaet"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","org":"President of the Republic of Belarus","text":"Presidential Decree No 135 ranks 'digital technologies and artificial intelligence' first of five national priority directions for scientific, scientific-technical and innovative activity, setting Belarus AI policy for 2026-2030. Every state scientific programme and the State Innovation Development Programme must steer public R&D funding toward AI priorities and kindred digital technologies.","date":"2025-04-01","source":"https://president.gov.by/ru/documents/ukaz-no-135-ot-1-aprela-2025-g"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","org":"National Academy of Sciences of Belarus","text":"Belarus's National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has opened the Scientific Artificial Intelligence Center (AI-center), an artificial intelligence research centre built from the United Institute of Informatics Problems' digitalisation office, with a partner firm from the China-Belarus Industrial Park 'Great Stone'. Now the country's main AI research and development hub, it covers cybersecurity, supercomputing, neural network coding, image recognition and language-processing systems, serving as Belarus's core base for both theoretical and applied AI work.","date":"2025-02-27","source":"https://belta.by/society/view/nauchnyj-tsentr-iskusstvennogo-intellekta-sozdali-v-belarusi-699075-2025/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","org":"Council of Ministers of the Republic of Belarus","text":"Belarus's Council of Ministers approved the Concept of Ensuring Sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus in the Field of Digital Development until 2030 under Resolution No 1074, the country's first coordinated strategy on digital sovereignty. It sets principles for national ICT control, faster rollout of new technology, and modernisation of government, economic and social services, folding AI in public administration into this wider push. As a foundational document it lays out a digital independence policy framework rather than detailed implementation steps.","date":"2024-12-31","source":"https://sdgs.by/news/konczepcziyu-obespecheniya-suvereniteta-v-sfere-czifrovogo-razvitiya-do-2030-goda-utverdili-v-belarusi/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Belarus","org":"President of the Republic of Belarus","text":"AI development Belarus gained legal grounding when the President's Decree No 8 took effect on 28 March 2018, licensing artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural network systems within the High Technology Park (HTP), plus autonomous vehicles and blockchain. HTP's tax and legal terms were extended to 2049. BelTA reports resident expertise now spans artificial intelligence in Belarus's digital economy, machine learning, Internet of Things and augmented reality — the root document centring AI in national digital strategy.","date":"2017-12-21","source":"https://belta.by/economics/view/dekret-o-razvitii-tsifrovoj-ekonomiki-vstupaet-v-silu-28-marta-296028-2018/"}]}