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The record holds 15 entries from Tunisia, across 6 industries, led by Government & Public Sector, then Education & Training. Last updated 29 Oct 2026.

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Government & Public Sector

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DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTunisia29 Sep 2026

Tunisia will use machine learning to pick tax audit targets

Ministry of Finance (Tunisia) — Tunisia's Ministry of Finance will bring AI tax audit targeting to tax inspectors, mining big data with machine learning to spot high-risk files, unregistered taxpayers, the informal economy and complex fraud. Bids are now arriving and rollout should take a year, Centre Informatique chief Salah Meddeb told a seminar in Tunis. Customs demonstrated a learning model for risky declarations, while officials stressed that machine-learning audit selection backs up human judgement.

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RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTunisia15 Aug 2026

Tunisia presents outlines of National AI Strategy 2026–2030

Government of Tunisia - Ministry of Communication Technologies — Sofiane Hemissi, Tunisia's Communication Technologies Minister, revealed draft Tunisia AI strategy priorities running 2026–2030, touching farming, health, energy, transport, mobility and public administration. Goals include bolstering sovereignty, safeguarding constitutional rights and hardening cyberspace against mounting threats. Lacking an Official Journal decree, this national AI roadmap stays provisional rather than enacted.

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DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTunisia16 May 2026

Tunisian customs adds AI module to flag high-risk declarations

General Directorate of Customs (Tunisia) — Tunisia's General Directorate of Customs added an AI module for AI customs risk targeting to the national customs selectivity system that picks declarations for control, it said on 16 May. Its machine-learning algorithms sift customs big data, automatically flagging high-fraud-risk operations to sharpen checks and speed compliant traders' goods.

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Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTunisia28 Apr 2026

ACCIA trains 160 Tunisian civil servants on generative AI for procurement

ACCIA (Association des cadres de contrôle, d'inspection et d'audit dans les structures publiques tunisiennes) — ACCIA, Tunisia's audit and inspection body for public staff, trained 160 OOUN officers on generative AI in public procurement in Tunis, under an ACCIA-OOUN partnership. Coverage spanned needs identification, tender writing, bid judging and compliance checks, reflecting growing interest in AI-assisted purchasing tools across Tunisian institutions.

webmanagercenter.com
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorTunisia8 Sep 2025

Sousse installs facial recognition cameras in its historic medina

Municipalité de Sousse — Sousse's municipality has installed four facial recognition surveillance cameras at Bab Jebli and near the Ribat in the city's historic medina, tracking pedestrian and vehicle flow with footage sent straight to the municipal police operations room. The move brings AI-powered monitoring technology to a Tunisian old town where narrow streets and dense tourist traffic have long challenged conventional policing.

Municipal police officerlapresse.tn
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorTunisia2 Aug 2025

ICESCO trains Tunisian education officials on strategic foresight and AI

Ministry of Education, ICESCO — ICESCO held a three-day Tunis workshop on AI in education and strategic foresight for Tunisia's Ministry of Education. The session ran with the Tunisian National Commission for Education, Science and Culture and the National Centre for Educational Technologies, part of wider regional AI policy in education efforts.

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RegulationGovernment & Public SectorTunisia6 Feb 2025

Tunisia prepares national AI strategy for broad consultation

Ministry of Communication Technologies — Tunisia's Ministry of Communication Technologies will open its national AI strategy to public consultation by end-February 2025, Sofiene Hemissi said. Thirty diaspora specialists joined local experts in drafting the Tunisia AI policy, spanning infrastructure, skills, legal frameworks, governance and ecosystem-building. The wider artificial intelligence roadmap, shaped by these 30 contributors, is still being finalised.

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Education & Training

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RegulationEducation & TrainingTunisia2025-12

Charter for Good Use of Artificial Intelligence at Tunisian University

Université Virtuelle de Tunis (UVT) — A framework for ethical AI use in Tunisian higher education now has a second edition. The Virtual University of Tunis released version 2 of the Charter for Good Use of Artificial Intelligence at the Tunisian University on 19 December 2025, setting expectations for how staff and students handle machine-assisted work across teaching and scholarship nationwide. Human judgement, the document insists, must still outrank automated output whenever decisions get made. Its scope stretches from safeguarding personal data to guarding against dishonest submissions and demanding openness about when algorithms enter the process — the country's clearest statement yet on AI governance in academic research.

omafor.ma
DeploymentEducation & TrainingTunisia5 Dec 2025

Tunis El Manar University launches AI platform for student employment

Université de Tunis El Manar — University of Tunis El Manar has rolled out a digital platform, at www.puit-utm.com, applying artificial intelligence in higher education to pair students with firms for placements and roles. Matching weighs skills against labour-market demand, while employers gain visibility into the graduate talent pool via AI-driven job matching.

Students and careers advisorsbusinessnews.com.tn

Finance & Insurance

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RegulationFinance & InsuranceTunisia10 Jul 2026

Central Bank of Tunisia internal charter for generative AI use

Banque Centrale de Tunisie (BCT) — Generative AI use at the Central Bank of Tunisia now sits under a fresh internal charter, revealed in its 2025 annual report. Several AI-driven data analytics projects run beside it, plus early talks on where the technology heads next. No tools, deadlines or costs were named.

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DeploymentFinance & InsuranceTunisia10 Sep 2025

MAE Assurances launches Tunisia's first AI insurance agent

MAE Assurances — A sector first: MAE, Tunisia's Mutual Insurance of Education (Mutuelle Assurance de l'Education), has switched on an AI insurance agent reachable 24/7 through its app and site. Members get instant replies on coverage and step-by-step help with paperwork from this AI-powered conversational agent for insurance. The tool supplements human advisors rather than replacing them.

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Media, Telecom & Entertainment

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RegulationMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentTunisia15 Mar 2026

National Charter for AI Use in Journalism

Conseil de Presse (Tunisian Press Council) — Tunisia's Press Council has drawn formal boundaries for AI in journalism, launching the National Charter for AI Use in Journalism on 15 March 2026 to sort applications into allowed, borderline and banned categories. Signatory newsrooms must disclose AI-generated material to readers and keep a human reviewing every automated output. Compliant outlets earn a trust label for artificial intelligence in news production.

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DeploymentMedia, Telecom & EntertainmentTunisia2025-12

Topnet deploys Topy AI assistant for customer service

Topnet — Topnet, a Tunisian internet service provider, now runs Topy, offering AI customer service in telecommunications 24 hours a day, 7 days a week through an AI virtual assistant for customer support. It gives instant, tailored replies on billing and technical issues, plus visibility on network status. Topnet says the goal is faster responses, with the assistant working alongside, not replacing, human support staff.

Customer service agentwebdo.tn

Agriculture & Food

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DeploymentAgriculture & FoodTunisia2025-09

La Manouba launches AI irrigation pilot to preserve water resources

Gouvernorat de La Manouba — Sensors now line artesian wells in Tunisia's El-Jedida delegation, feeding salinity, temperature and flow readings into an AI irrigation pilot run by La Manouba governorate. Algorithms cross-check this stream against satellite imagery to hand farmers exact watering guidance, cutting waste and lifting soil condition. PRIMA, the international funder, contributes 45,000 euros yearly out of a 2.6 million euro total, and a matching trial in Gabès governorate offers a comparison point for smart water management using AI.

Farmeragritunisie.com

Healthcare & Life Sciences

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DeploymentHealthcare & Life SciencesTunisia21 Jul 2026

Tunisia says AI chest X-ray tool will go to 300 clinics

Ministry of Health (Tunisia) — Tunisia's health ministry will put an AI chest X-ray reading model, built by Ariana and Monastir university hospital teams with local technology partners, into more than 300 primary health centres, notably inland, minister Mustapha Ferjani says. Trained on regional conditions such as tuberculosis, the lung-screening AI is meant to help doctors spot lung anomalies and tumours early, with clinicians keeping the medical decision.

Primary-care doctorleconomistemaghrebin.com
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