{"name":"Applied AI in the Maldives — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for the Maldives, 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/maldives","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":"Maldives","slug":"maldives","iso2":"MV","region":"Asia-Pacific"},"counts":{"entries":7,"deployments":3,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":3,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":7},"entries":[{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Maldives","org":"Prosecutor General's Office","text":"Eight AI-powered functions will join the Maldives' Mafini case platform under PGO 2.0, an AI prosecutorial services plan from President Dr Mohamed Muizzu for the Prosecutor General's Office. Additions include a legal document analyser, identity analyser, and charge-drafting and summarising tools, hosted on sovereign infrastructure under the office's AI governance rules, aiming for paperless AI in prosecution by 2028.","date":"2026-08-11","source":"https://presidency.gov.mv/Press/Article/37133"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Maldives","role":"Customer service representative","org":"Bank of Maldives","text":"Bank of Maldives customers can now file banking service requests directly through Aaya, an example of an AI virtual assistant in banking absorbing tasks once handled by a separate messaging feature. The AI-powered digital assistant, built into the mobile app and Internet Banking platform, answers in real time in Dhivehi and English.","date":"2026-07-22","source":"https://en.mmtv.mv/10958"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Maldives","org":"Government of Maldives","text":"Digital for All, the Maldivian Government's AI literacy programme, targets 225,000 people by 2028 under the Maldives 2.0 agenda. The Ministry of Homeland Security and Ministry of Education jointly run the three-year scheme, offering free Dhivehi and English instruction via facilitators, island councils and online tools as part of wider digital skills training. Graduates earn nationally recognised digital competency badges.","date":"2026-07-22","source":"https://www.mindco.mv/newsroom/digital-for-all-campaign-launched"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Maldives","org":"Government of Maldives","text":"Maldives will submit a Maldives AI regulation bill to Parliament, President Dr Mohamed Muizzu confirmed, packaged alongside a Digital Transformation Bill, Digital Identity Bill and Cyber Security Bill covering artificial intelligence oversight. The four measures anchor the Maldives 2.0 digital transformation agenda, which targets full state-system digitisation by 2027. This push forms one strand of a wider digital-governance overhaul, not a standalone law.","date":"2026-04-20","source":"https://corporatemaldives.com/govt-to-introduce-ai-regulation-bill-alongside-digital-reform-package/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Maldives","role":"Telecom customer service staff","org":"Ooredoo Maldives","text":"Instant AI eKYC (electronic Know Your Customer) now activates SIM cards across Ooredoo Maldives' digital channels, trimming registration to 10 seconds from a previous 60, with automatic sign-off for over 90 percent of applicants via this AI-driven identity verification. A tiered screening pipeline drives the gain, combining facial recognition, liveness detection and anti-spoofing safeguards to confirm each customer. Physical paperwork and in-person queues disappear entirely, so resort guests and locals alike can complete SIM registration straight from a handset.","date":"2025-11-27","source":"https://standard.mv/ai-powered-ekyc-launches-at-mwc-doha-as-ooredoo-cuts-sim-onboarding-to-10-seconds/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Maldives","role":"Immigration officer","org":"Maldives Immigration","text":"MI ID Checker equips Maldives Immigration with fresh capability for undocumented worker identification: a phone app that reads a face and instantly pulls matching passport, visa, work permit and employer files, catching anyone tagged absconded, built with Maldives Police Service support. All law enforcement bodies hold access now, councils next.","date":"2025-11-10","source":"https://www2.immigration.gov.mv/with-the-introduction-of-a-new-facial-recognition-system-undocumented-foreigners-can-now-be-easily-identified/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Maldives","org":"Ministry of Homeland Security and Technology","text":"Maldives cabinet has adopted an AI governance framework Maldives officials call the National AI Masterplan 2025-2035, tasking the National Centre for Information Technology with steering a decade of artificial intelligence policy. The plan, under the Ministry of Homeland Security and Technology, pushes for a standalone oversight body, a multistakeholder advisory council, public AI education drives, and digitised Dhivehi-language datasets. Muizzu's government frames this as capturing AI's economic upside while containing its risks, part of a broader national AI strategy.","date":"2024-10-16","source":"https://regulations.ai/regulations/RAI-MV-NA-NAM2XXX-2024"}]}