Mozambique has introduced a draft National Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy as part of its comprehensive digital transformation initiative to foster the responsible integration of AI technologies.
The strategy was unveiled by Lourino Chemane, chairman of the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (INTIC), during the International Telecommunication Union’s “AI for Good” workshop held in Kenya.
The draft document is now open for public consultation from May 4 to June 4, 2026.
In his presentation, Chemane detailed the country’s key focus areas for AI advancement and emphasised the potential for regional collaboration with other participating nations.
He asserted that AI regulatory sandboxes would significantly contribute to shaping public policy, outlining national AI strategies, and ensuring the safe implementation of AI across sectors such as education, healthcare, finance, energy, agriculture, climate change, and digital public services.
Moreover, Mozambique utilised this platform to showcase its advancements in establishing a legal and regulatory framework for digital transformation. This includes recent enactments of the Cybersecurity Law and the Cybercrime Law, as well as regulations governing data centres and cloud computing platforms.
Chemane highlighted Mozambique’s ambition to become a regional hub for data centres and cloud computing infrastructure, citing the country’s electricity generation capacity, abundant water resources, and a long coastline conducive to submarine fibre-optic cable deployment, along with a young workforce, as key competitive advantages.
In a statement, INTIC encouraged private-sector entities interested in developing data centres to view Mozambique as a prime investment opportunity, asserting that the nation has a robust legal and regulatory framework to attract private investment in this vital sector for digital transformation and national sovereignty.
Additionally, Mozambique is joining other Southern African Development Community (SADC) nations, such as Lesotho and Malawi, in establishing national AI frameworks. South Africa is also in the process of revising its draft AI framework after pulling it back for an internal review that found AI-generated citation errors.
