{"name":"Applied AI in French Guiana — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for French Guiana, 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/french-guiana","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":"French Guiana","slug":"french-guiana","iso2":"GF","region":"Latin America & Caribbean"},"counts":{"entries":7,"deployments":2,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":5,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":7},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Guiana","role":"Tax officer","org":"Direction régionale des finances publiques de la Guyane","text":"Direction générale des finances publiques in French Guiana now runs an internal AI writing tool, \"langage clair\" (plain language), simplifying taxpayer communications. Officers submit drafts, which the system rephrases into clearer wording before release, backing this AI-assisted tax communication push. It supports staff through the 2026 tax campaign, lifting plain-language government correspondence.","date":"2026-04-09","source":"https://www.franceguyane.fr/actualite/economie-consommation/impots-2026-lia-pour-simplifier-les-demarches-fiscales-1075849.php"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Education & Training","region":"French Guiana","org":"DRANE Guyane","text":"DRANE Guyane, the region's academic digital directorate, has issued AI ground rules for schools in French Guiana, drawn from over 500 contributions gathered in a January to May 2025 consultation. Pupils gain unsupervised access to artificial intelligence tools only from Year 9 (4e) onward; younger students remain restricted. Data protection, transparency and environmental cost sit alongside pedagogy as core principles, and unauthorised generative AI use on homework counts as fraud.","date":"2025-10-17","source":"https://dane.ins.ac-guyane.fr/cadre-d-usage-de-l-ia-en-education.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Guiana","org":"Ministère de l'Économie, des Finances et de la Souveraineté industrielle et numérique","text":"A decree signed 4 September 2025, revising the earlier 8 December 2017 text, gave France's Conseil national de l'IA et du Numérique (CIAN) its legal footing on AI policy France pursues, replacing the Conseil national du numérique as the country's artificial intelligence advisory body. Clara Chappaz, minister delegate, leads the panel, tasked with examining how digitalisation affects society, the economy and territories such as French Guiana.","date":"2025-06-12","source":"https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/clara-chappaz-installe-le-conseil-national-de-lia-et-du-numerique/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"French Guiana","role":"Gastroenterologist","org":"CHU de Guyane","text":"Cayenne's public hospital, CHU de Guyane, now screens for bowel cancer using Cad Eye, an AI-assisted colonoscopy tool built into a high-resolution endoscope. Adenoma detection has jumped from 15 to 40 percent since the technology entered its gastroenterology department, which handles over 1,200 procedures a year. French Guiana thus joins the growing list of regions applying AI-powered colorectal cancer screening in routine practice.","date":"2025-02","source":"https://www.blada.com/boite-aux-lettres/infos-citoyennes/18773-Avec_lIA_on_augmente_notre_capacite_de_diagnostiquer_et_traiter_le_cancer_colorectal.htm"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Guiana","org":"Parlement européen et Conseil de l'Union européenne","text":"This AI regulation, Regulation 2024/1689, better known as the EU AI Act, now gives Brussels a single rulebook for building, selling and running artificial intelligence systems across the bloc. Machines get sorted into bands stretching from negligible danger up to outright prohibition, while firms that supply or operate them answer to watchdogs appointed in each nation for market oversight. Because it binds every member state automatically, French Guiana shares in that AI governance regime simply by belonging to the outermost tier of the European Union.","date":"2024-06-13","source":"https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/FR/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202401689"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Guiana","org":"Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés","text":"AI regulation France gained a formal shape when CNIL adopted binding guidance on 18 January 2024, under Délibération 2024-011, tying GDPR to AI system design. Firms must classify systems correctly, define purposes, pick a lawful basis, minimise data, assess risks and embed protection by design. This GDPR AI compliance guidance applies equally in French Guiana.","date":"2024-01-18","source":"https://cnil.fr/fr/ia-la-cnil-publie-ses-premieres-recommandations-sur-le-developpement-des-systemes-dintelligence"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Guiana","org":"Gouvernement français","text":"France's national AI strategy, the Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle (SNIA), runs across two phases, 2018-2022 and 2021-2025, targeting global and European leadership in artificial intelligence. It covers all French territory, including French Guiana, focusing on research strength, talent training, economic AI uptake, and ethics. COSNIA, within the Direction générale des Entreprises, coordinates the artificial intelligence development plan.","date":"2018-03-29","source":"https://www.entreprises.gouv.fr/priorites-et-actions/autonomie-strategique/soutenir-linnovation-dans-les-secteurs-strategiques-de-6"}]}