{"name":"Applied AI in North Macedonia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for North Macedonia, 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/north-macedonia","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":"North Macedonia","slug":"north-macedonia","iso2":"MK","region":"Europe"},"counts":{"entries":6,"deployments":2,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":3,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":6},"entries":[{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"North Macedonia","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation of the Republic of North Macedonia","text":"A first draft national AI strategy from North Macedonia's Ministry of Digital Transformation is open for comment via the ENER portal, ahead of planned public hearings. Stefan Andonovski anticipates sign-off before 2026 closes, with the blueprint paving the way for a later artificial intelligence use law stressing responsible, values-driven deployment over restrictions on building the technology itself.","date":"2026-09-17","source":"https://makpress.mk/2026/09/17/andonovski-strategijata-za-veshtachka-inteligenczija-treba-da-bide-donesena-do-krajot-na-godinata/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"North Macedonia","role":"Crisis management officer","org":"Crisis Management Center of North Macedonia","text":"North Macedonia's Crisis Management Center (CMC) has agreed with NATO to implement NICS-2, a multi-year AI crisis response project delivering an incident command system, AI-driven, for cross-border emergencies. Under NATO's Science for Peace and Security Programme, this AI-assisted emergency response effort targets stronger national crisis management capabilities via AI-enhanced coordination and real-time decision-making.","date":"2026-06-24","source":"https://new.mia.mk/en/story/cmc-crisis-management-system-to-be-modernized-with-nato-support"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"North Macedonia","org":"Government of North Macedonia","text":"North Macedonia became the 46th signatory to the Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, the first legally binding international treaty on this technology. Justice Minister Igor Filkov and Secretary General Alain Berset signed it in Skopje, marking North Macedonia AI regulation progress meant to keep artificial intelligence systems accountable to democratic norms and legal safeguards, part of a wider AI governance treaty push.","date":"2026-05-08","source":"https://new.mia.mk/al/story/north-macedonia-signs-coe-framework-convention-on-artificial-intelligence"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"North Macedonia","org":"Ministry of Justice of North Macedonia","text":"North Macedonia's Ministry of Justice opened consultation until mid-March on draft changes to the Law on Personal Data Protection, tackling North Macedonia AI regulation for the first time. Filed via the ENER platform in February 2026, the text lets firms cite legitimate interest for machine learning systems personal data processing during training and testing, given safeguards, plus strict data-minimisation caps.","date":"2026-02","source":"https://www.karanovicpartners.com/news/draft-amendments-to-the-law-on-personal-data-protection-ai-and-changes-to-international-transfers/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"North Macedonia","org":"Eurostat","text":"North Macedonia trails the EU in AI tools adoption among young people, Eurostat's 2025 data shows: 45.4% of those aged 16-24 use such tools, against 63.8% across the bloc. Generative AI usage among all residents aged 16-74 reached just 22% that year, leaving a wide gap versus the EU average for both youth and the wider population.","date":"2026-02-11","source":"https://new.mia.mk/al/story/ai-used-by-45.4-of-young-people-in-the-country-63.8-in-the-eu"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"North Macedonia","role":"Credit analyst","org":"Iute Macedonia","text":"Iute Macedonia, within Estonia's Iute Group, now runs North Macedonia's first fully automated loan decision engine. The AI credit approval system blends official institutional records with machine learning risk segmentation, shrinking turnaround on consumer and earmarked loans from 15 minutes to 3, an early instance of automated lending needing barely any staff input.","date":"2025-08-18","source":"https://bankarstvo.mk/za-prv-pat-vo-makedonija-iute-avtomatiziran-sistem-obrabotka-kreditni-baranja/"}]}