{"name":"Applied AI in French Polynesia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for French Polynesia, 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-polynesia","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 Polynesia","slug":"french-polynesia","iso2":"PF","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":3,"deployments":1,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":2,"industries":1,"countries":1,"linked":3},"entries":[{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Polynesia","org":"Government of French Polynesia (Conseil des ministres)","text":"The Government of French Polynesia's Comité consultatif Smart Polynesia opened 18 June 2026 under President Moetai Brotherson, steering French Polynesia AI policy, digital sovereignty and network access. Members: the Haut-commissaire, ministers, DGEN, DSI, UPF, CCISM, OPEN, French Tech, MEDEF, CPME — spanning data hosting, skills and jobs, backing the wider plan for artificial intelligence governance.","date":"2026-05-04","source":"https://gouvernement.pf/fr/actualites/smart-polynesia-le-pays-installe-son-nouveau-comite-consultatif-du-numerique"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Polynesia","org":"Government of French Polynesia","text":"French Polynesia now has a charter for AI use by government employees, covering research, note-taking, drafting and translation. Vice-President Minarii Galenon signed the rules, barring staff from entering sensitive data into unapproved tools. Binding decisions stay with people, not AI in the public sector, unless a human supervises.","date":"2026-01-27","source":"https://www.tntvnews.pf/polynesie/high-tech/ia-dans-ladministration-ce-que-les-agents-du-pays-ont-desormais-le-droit-de-faire-ou-pas/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"French Polynesia","role":"Civil servant (legal administrator)","org":"Government of French Polynesia","text":"French Polynesia's government will pilot AI-driven legal text consolidation through the SGG, the Secrétariat général du gouvernement. The system will scan the Lexpol database to catch contradictions built up across years and group related rules by subject, supporting legislative codification. President Moetai Brotherson called it a test to evaluate before wider rollout.","date":"2025-04-08","source":"https://www.tntvnews.pf/polynesie/societe/le-pays-veut-experimenter-les-ia-generatives-dans-son-administration/"}]}