{"name":"Applied AI in Qatar — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Qatar, 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/qatar","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":"Qatar","slug":"qatar","iso2":"QA","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"nationalStrategy":{"name":"National Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Qatar","year":2019},"counts":{"entries":37,"deployments":22,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":5,"regulation":10,"industries":12,"countries":1,"linked":37},"entries":[{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Qatar)","text":"The Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, ratified Cabinet Decision No. 34 of 2026, founding a National Artificial Intelligence Centre under the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, a milestone for Qatar AI policy. Three departments will steer strategy, regulation and national AI coordination. A digital training and capability development unit was added too.","date":"2026-10-19","source":"https://alarab.qa/article/20/10/2026/الاتصالات-إنشاء-المركز-الوطني-للذكاء-الاصطناعي"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Civil servant","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Qatar)","text":"Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology counts over 8,000 active users, 69.6 percent of 12,260 licences, in cohort two of its Microsoft 365 Copilot Adoption Programme across 17 public and semi-public bodies. Some 2.1 million actions are logged, 508 sessions trained 9,000-plus staff, and this public-sector Copilot rollout spans 96 AI agent use cases.","date":"2026-10-11","source":"https://qna.org.qa/en/News-Area/News/2026-10/11/mcit-honors-entities-excellence-in-digital-transformation-adoption"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Qatar Ministry of Justice","text":"Al Meezan, the Ministry of Justice's new AI legal research portal, went live with a refreshed Official Gazette site, opened by Minister Ibrahim bin Ali Al Mohannadi. The portal indexes over 9,659 legislative instruments, 3,758 judicial rulings and 709 agreements, matches plain-language questions to provisions and condenses long documents, linking each answer to its source. Citizens, scholars, practitioners, companies and investors can use the service; authenticated statutes stay binding.","date":"2026-10-11","source":"https://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/258615/front/moj-launches-new-official-gazette-website-and-al-meezan-portal"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (Qatar)","text":"Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has closed a second round of AI training for government leaders, run by the Qatar Digital Academy for 24 officials. The Executive Leadership Programme in Artificial Intelligence covered strategy, institutional adoption, data governance, risk, organisational change and arguing a business case. Officials built artificial intelligence skills in the public sector on problems drawn from their own desks.","date":"2026-09-17","source":"https://marhaba.qa/mcit-launches-second-executive-leadership-programme-in-artificial-intelligence/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Qatar","role":"Concierge","org":"Msheireb Properties","text":"Msheireb Properties has started phase one of Rashid, an AI digital concierge answering from 15 interactive smart kiosks in Msheireb Downtown Doha. Rashid gives wayfinding plus live detail on events, parking and nearby restaurants, day and night, taking spoken Arabic and English. Hewlett Packard Enterprise built the smart city AI assistant on Fanar, Qatar's Arabic large language model, with MEEZA running the platform.","date":"2026-09-14","source":"https://www.gccbusinessnews.com/msheireb-properties-rashid-ai-companion/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Prosecutor (execution of judgments)","org":"Public Prosecution (Qatar)","text":"Qatar's Public Prosecution and the Ministry of Interior have launched AI self-service kiosks letting inmates of penal and correctional institutions lodge requests by speaking in their preferred language. Requests reach the Execution of Judgments Prosecution, which reviews, decides and replies through the same AI system, and inmates can view case reports and follow each step.","date":"2026-08-02","source":"https://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/247001/latest-news/public-prosecution-launches-ai-powered-self-service-platform-for-inmates"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Qatar","role":"Bank staff","org":"AlRayan Bank","text":"AlRayan Bank adopts Microsoft 365 Copilot for bank staff under the Qatar Central Bank's AI guidelines, covering presentations, data analysis, document drafting and summarising reports and emails, it announced on 20 May 2026. Teams are trialling the AI assistant for credit documentation automation and analysis, ESG analysis and ratings support, and mobile-app user stories.","date":"2026-05-20","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/21/05/2026/alrayan-bank-adopts-microsoft-365-copilot-to-enhance-innovation-and-enterprise-productivity"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Qatar","role":"News translator","org":"Qatar News Agency","text":"Qatar News Agency has added AI-produced news services in Russian, Hindi and Urdu, lifting its publishing languages to eight with Arabic, English, French, German and Spanish. The director-general says AI had already been part of the agency's news system for a while.","date":"2026-05-10","source":"https://qna.org.qa/en/News-Area/News/2026-5/10/qna-launches-news-services-in-three-new-languages-using-ai"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Customs officer","org":"General Authority of Customs (Qatar)","text":"Qatar's General Authority of Customs launched AI customs classification and other AI services on 26 January 2026, opened by the finance minister on International Customs Day. Smart Harmonized System classification proposes the tariff code from the first shipment-data entry, pre-classification hints speed and sharpen customs officers' decisions, and an agentic AI service and customs-information virtual assistant join them.","date":"2026-01-26","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/27/01/2026/gac-launches-new-package-of-artificial-intelligence-services"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Qatar","org":"Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre","text":"The Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre's procedural directive sets AI rules for lawyers and litigants appearing before its courts and tribunals from the start of 2026. Representatives must check AI-assisted material, flag AI-generated content in documents and declare AI-generated video or audio evidence or risk its exclusion. The AI directive followed a lawyer's contempt finding for citing AI-invented cases.","date":"2026-01","source":"https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/qatar-introduces-new-ai-usage-rules-for-courts"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Legislative drafter","org":"Council of Ministers Secretariat General (Qatar)","text":"Qatar's Council of Ministers Secretariat General opened the first phase of its 'Smart Legislative Advisor', an AI legislative drafting tool built with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The legal-drafting AI checks drafts against regional and international laws, tests consistency with the constitution and current legislation, and handles language and proofreading review, supporting legislative professionals rather than replacing them.","date":"2026-01-04","source":"https://marsalqatar.qa/post/80437/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%A9-%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AC%D9%84%D8%B3-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B2%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%AA"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"HR & People","region":"Qatar","role":"Labour market analysts, policymakers","org":"Ministry of Labour","text":"Qatar's Ministry of Labour now runs AI labour market forecasting through a revamped Labour Market Information System (LMIS), built jointly with the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. A central AI agent, drawing on domestic employment records and policy rules, generates sector-level job-demand projections across three strategic lenses. Staff quiz the agent directly for tailored real-time breakdowns split by demographic group.","date":"2025-12-23","source":"https://www.gulf-times.com/article/717446/qatar/qatar-deploys-ai-to-forecast-labour-market-trend"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology","text":"Qatar has released its draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy for comment, one of six digital policies under a Qatar AI regulation push for the economy. Five pillars anchor it: infrastructure, data, skills, institutional capacity, and governance. Feedback runs via Sharek, part of a unified national AI strategy.","date":"2025-12-21","source":"http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/21/12/2025/mcit-unveils-national-policies-to-advance-digital-economy"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology","text":"MCIT and Scale AI launched ALIF, a government AI training scheme for Qatar's public workforce, delivered through the Qatar Digital Academy. Two strands make up the AI skilling programme: ALIF Core for office staff and ALIF Tech for specialists, both certified. The initiative debuted at World Summit AI Qatar 2025.","date":"2025-12-11","source":"https://www.qatar-tribune.com/article/208916/nation/mcit-launches-alif-programme-to-build-ai-capabilities-across-government-entities"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Policy analyst","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and National Planning Council","text":"Scale AI is joining Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the National Planning Council to craft an AI-powered decision-making tool for public bodies. Officials hope it will forecast trends and steer policy using economic and social data, reflecting a wider shift toward AI in government data analytics.","date":"2025-12-10","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/10/12/2025/mcit-npc-launch-initiative-to-advance-ai-powered-decision-making"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Qatar","role":"Teachers, students","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MOEHE)","text":"A new platform for AI in public schools, the National Personalised Learning Platform, was unveiled at World Summit AI Qatar 2025 by Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology alongside the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, developed with Scale AI. Student records will be examined to shape lessons around each child's pace and strengths, and educators gain automated support for marking work, drafting plans and monitoring progress over time. Sitting within the wider Digital Agenda 2030 strategy, the effort marks a push toward personalised education technology reaching every state-run school nationwide.","date":"2025-12-10","source":"http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/10/12/2025/qatar-introduces-national-personalised-learning-system-at-world-summit-ai-2025"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology","text":"Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has nearly doubled Microsoft Copilot use for government AI adoption, expanding from 9 to 17 entities in phase two of the Adopt Microsoft Copilot programme. Phase one produced a 62% take-up rate, over 9,000 users, 1.7 million tasks completed and 240,000-plus hours saved, with public-sector AI uptake backed by Qatar Digital Academy training.","date":"2025-12-04","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/04/12/2025/mcit-launches-2nd-phase-of-adopt-microsoft-copilot-program-honors-1st-batch-graduates"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Business Operations","region":"Qatar","role":"Office worker","org":"Ooredoo Qatar","text":"Ooredoo Qatar has broadened access to Microsoft 365 Copilot, rolling out the licence to a larger share of its workforce under an agentic framework for AI-driven workflows across the company. This Microsoft 365 Copilot enterprise AI rollout is meant to lift productivity and spur innovation through autonomous, AI-powered processes throughout the organisation. The move reinforces Ooredoo's standing as an early adopter of enterprise AI deployment in Qatar's telecommunications sector, extending the licence beyond its initial user group.","date":"2025-11-29","source":"https://beta.gulf-times.com/article/716077/business/ooredoo-qatar-accelerates-digital-transformation-by-expanding-microsoft-365-copilot-licensing-to-empower-workforce"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Sales & Commercial","region":"Qatar","role":"Customer service and retail sales staff","org":"Ooredoo Qatar","text":"Retail shoppers in Qatar gained access to Ooredoo's digital assistant Obot on 26 November 2025, now paired with an avatar feature powered by GPT Real-Time Voice and Azure AI Services. Deployed across X, Facebook and WhatsApp, this AI customer service tool leans on Dynamics 365 Omnichannel so each interaction feels tailored to the individual user. A tool once limited to scripted replies has grown into a fuller virtual assistant, able to converse through text, spoken voice or a lifelike avatar.","date":"2025-11-26","source":"https://www.ooredoo.qa/web/en/press-release/ooredoo-qatar-expands-obot-to-retail-customers-with-ai-powered-avatar-and-multi-channel-availability/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Technology & Software","region":"Qatar","role":"University administrator","org":"University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST)","text":"University of Doha for Science and Technology now runs Microsoft 365 Copilot as a conversational front end for staff, part of a wider push into AI in university operations built on Azure AI Foundry. Agentic AI for higher education administration links departments, automating shared workflows including administrative processes. Qatar's MCIT backed the work, unveiled at Mobile World Congress 2025.","date":"2025-11-26","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/26/11/2025/udst-implements-microsoft-365-copilot-agentic-ai-orchestration-across-university-operations"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Qatar","role":"Paediatric emergency physicians, radiologists","org":"Sidra Medicine","text":"Doctors at Sidra Medicine now lean on AI fracture detection paediatric imaging as a daily routine within the Emergency Department and Diagnostic Imaging Unit. Linked directly into the hospital's PACS system, the software scans each X-ray for breaks and dislocations, flagging trouble spots without human prompting, functioning like an extra pair of trained eyes. Clinicians report the AI imaging tool for detecting fractures in children has cut waits and lifted their confidence when reading young patients' scans.","date":"2025-11-23","source":"https://www.sidra.org/media/news/2025/sidra-medicine-embraces-implementation-of-diagnostic-ai-to-improve-pediatric-emergency-care/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Qatar","org":"Qatar International Court and Dispute Resolution Centre","text":"A Qatari tribunal disciplined a Dubai attorney whose filings cited AI-generated fake cases, invented rulings in Jonathan David Sheppard v Jillion LLC. Judges branded this intentional contempt, not sloppy research — a regional first for MENA. Punishment: a reprimand, with future use of fabricated legal citations to be named publicly.","date":"2025-11-20","source":"https://www.mondaq.com/new-technology/1707566/ai-advocacy-and-contempt-the-qfc-court-draws-a-hard-line"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Justice and Supreme Judiciary Council","text":"UNICRI joined Qatar's Supreme Judiciary Council to run a five-day session on AI in criminal justice for Court of Appeal and First Instance Court judges in The Hague. Qatar's Ministry of Justice, through its Centre for Legal and Judicial Studies, had already briefed legal professionals in two April sessions on criminal liability from AI technologies.","date":"2025-10-31","source":"https://www.unicri.org/News-AI-Training-Qatari-Judiciary-The-Hague"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Building permit officer","org":"Ministry of Municipality","text":"Building permits in Qatar now take 120 minutes, down from 30 days, after the Ministry of Municipality rolled out its AI-powered building permit system. Engineering drawings get checked automatically against approved standards, with up to 70% of the process running without human input during this first phase. Cross-checks draw on Qatar's GIS land data plus records held by Ashghal and Kahramaa, an automated permit approval process replacing what was previously manual review.","date":"2025-10-26","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/26/10/2025/qatar-launches-ai-powered-building-permit-system"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Qatar","role":"E-commerce and marketplace teams","org":"Snoonu","text":"A new build of Snoonu's super app introduces Genie, an AI shopping assistant able to parse everyday requests, say a request for a skincare routine or a present idea, and surface matching products. Multiple coordinated agents power the suggestions for every user on the platform, extending Qatar's move toward AI-driven retail assistance.","date":"2025-10-21","source":"https://peopleandqatar.com/one-app-endless-possibilities-inside-snoonu-5-5/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Market surveillance officer","org":"Qatar Financial Markets Authority","text":"Nasdaq has equipped QFMA with an AI trading surveillance system, ranking it among the first regulators worldwide to deploy artificial intelligence for this purpose. Part of the build runs on AI-based software, sharpening detection of suspicious transactions and shielding market integrity.","date":"2025-10-20","source":"http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/20/10/2025/qfma-adopts-new-trading-surveillance-system-in-cooperation-with-nasdaq"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Qatar","role":"Taxi driver, safety operator","org":"Mowasalat (Karwa)","text":"Robotaxi deployment Qatar has begun: Pony.ai and Mowasalat (Karwa) now run driverless cars on Doha's streets. Onboard operators supervise as engineers tune the fleet for local heat, roads and traffic. Qatar's Ministry of Transport oversees the trial, tied to Qatar National Vision 2030.","date":"2025-09-05","source":"https://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/pony-ai-inc-and-mowasalat-deploy-robotaxi-public-roads-doha-qatar-2025-09-05"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Qatar Cabinet","text":"Qatar's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology gains a new administrative unit after the Cabinet approved a draft resolution creating the National Center for Artificial Intelligence. The move restructures the ministry to define the centre's remit, forming part of a broader push on Qatar AI governance to coordinate AI development and oversight across government entities. Officials frame the body as a coordinating hub for national AI regulation efforts rather than a standalone agency.","date":"2025-09-03","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/03/09/2025/qatar-cabinet-approves-draft-resolution-establishing-national-center-for-artificial-intelligence"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Qatar","role":"Teachers, students","org":"Qatar Foundation Pre-University Education (QF-PUE)","text":"Qatar Foundation (QF) has deployed Google Gemini for Education across its Pre-University Education schools with partner Advanced Business Computing. Unveiled at the Google Cloud Summit 2025 in Doha, the AI in K-12 education push targets better teaching and pupil engagement via personalised tools. Generative AI in schools now spans classroom and admin functions at QF.","date":"2025-06-04","source":"https://www.gulf-times.com/article/705645/qatar/qf-pue-rolls-out-googles-most-advanced-ai-for-innovative-learning"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Communications and Information Technology","text":"Qatar AI policy now includes a formal ethics framework, released 8 May 2025 by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology under the title Principles and Guidelines for Ethical Development and Deployment of Artificial Intelligence. Rather than binding rules, the document offers eight guiding values: preventing harm, ensuring robustness, maintaining security and safety, reducing bias, protecting the environment, safeguarding privacy, promoting transparency, keeping humans central to design, and holding humans accountable. Practical advice follows on assessing risks and their impacts, governing data, overseeing systems by humans, and watching over their full lifecycle. Because these AI ethics guidelines carry no legal force, compliance remains voluntary for developers and deployers alike.","date":"2025-05-08","source":"https://regulations.ai/regulations/RAI-QA-NA-PGEDDXX-2025"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","role":"Ministry applications reviewer","org":"Ministry of Labour","text":"Two minutes, not weeks: Qatar's Ministry of Labour now completes AI application processing that fast. An automated review pipeline built on Microsoft's AutoGen framework drives the work, splitting eight agents into two roles — five judge each case, three keep the exchange impartial and accurate.","date":"2025-05-07","source":"http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/07/05/2025/ministry-of-labour-launches-smart-multi-agent-system-to-review-submitted-applications"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Qatar","role":"Customer service representative","org":"Ooredoo Qatar","text":"A new virtual assistant called Obot now handles support duties for Ooredoo Qatar, built on GPT-4o and reachable through the Ooredoo App and website, ahead of a planned WhatsApp and social media rollout. This is an example of an AI chatbot in telecom customer service, fielding questions and recommending products while refining replies from ongoing interactions. Ooredoo introduced the system at Web Summit Qatar 2025 as part of its wider AI-driven customer engagement strategy.","date":"2025-05-06","source":"https://www.ooredoo.qa/web/en/press-release/ooredoo-unveils-gpt-4o-powered-ai-chatbot-obot-across-key-customer-touchpoints/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Qatar","role":"Luggage handler, driver","org":"Qatar Aviation Services (QAS)","text":"Autonomous airport vehicles are running airside at Hamad International Airport under 'Eye of the Pearl', built by UISEE for Qatar Aviation Services, MATAR and Qatar Science & Technology Park. One unmanned machine hauls luggage between aircraft and cargo bay; another moves passengers via sandstorm-resistant radar sensors. Officials call it a regional first for driverless airside transport.","date":"2025-03-14","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/14/03/2025/hias-autonomous-vehicle-project-to-ensure-safety-address-climatic-challenges"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Qatar","org":"Qatar Central Bank","text":"Binding AI regulation in banking now applies to every QCB-licensed entity in Qatar that builds, buys, outsources or runs AI systems, under the Qatar Central Bank's Artificial Intelligence Guideline. High-risk deployments cannot proceed without prior QCB sign-off, and firms must put board oversight, an AI Register, human review, data safeguards, security measures, and customer transparency and complaint routes in place. Yearly disclosure of AI use to QCB rounds out this AI governance in financial services regime.","date":"2024-09-04","source":"https://regulations.ai/regulations/RAI-QA-NA-QCBAIXX-2024"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"National Cyber Security Agency","text":"Version 1.0 of Qatar's AI security guidelines arrived from the National Cyber Security Agency in 2024, giving organisations across every sector a voluntary, bilingual Arabic/English playbook titled Guidelines for Secure Adoption and Usage of Artificial Intelligence. Rather than mandating compliance, the document builds practical advice around three pillars — people, process, technology — spanning the full AI lifecycle: strategic alignment and risk assessment feed into data governance and model security, while oversight by humans, risk in the supply chain, ongoing monitoring and response to incidents complete the picture. This secure AI adoption framework carries no penalties for non-compliance, leaving uptake to individual organisations.","date":"2024-02-18","source":"https://regulations.ai/regulations/RAI-QA-NA-GSAUAXX-2024"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Cabinet of Qatar / Ministry of Communications and Information Technology","text":"Qatar AI policy took shape through Cabinet Decision No. (10) of 2021, which sets up a National Artificial Intelligence Committee based at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), tasked with rolling out and tracking progress on the country's National AI Strategy. The inter-ministerial body coordinates AI-related work across government entities, proposes programmes to build human capacity, backs AI start-ups, and speaks for Qatar at international AI forums. This reflects Qatar AI regulation extending into national AI governance and oversight; the decision was issued 1 September 2021.","date":"2021-09-14","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/03/03/2021/Cabinet-approves-establishing-Artificial-Intelligence-Committee-at-MoTC"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Qatar","org":"Ministry of Transport and Communications (now Ministry of Communications and Information Technology)","text":"Qatar AI policy rests on the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, signed at QITCOM, which structures government action around six themes: schooling, data sharing, jobs, enterprise, scholarship and ethical safeguards. Officials cast this as an 'AI+X' paradigm intended to spread machine-learning use through every part of the economy. The national AI strategy still guides Qatar into 2026, tracked by the Artificial Intelligence Committee for compliance.","date":"2019-10","source":"https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/30/10/2019/Qatar%E2%80%99s-National-Artificial-Intelligence-Strategy-launched-at-QITCOM"}]}