Tunisia
COUNCIL OF EUROPE
14%
4/28
AI Gap Index
2/10
Schools
0/8
Workforce
1/6
Governance
1/4
Access
Schools 2/10
D1 AI literacy curriculum exists in schools 1 Tunisia's National AI Roadmap 2021–2025 included AI skills and workforce development as priorities. The first public AI engineering institute launched at the University of Tunis (2024–2025 academic year) extends AI education into higher education formally. [1]
D2 Curriculum is binding law or mandate 0
D3 Ethics component included in curriculum 1 Ministry of Education seminar (February 2026, PARLE programme) explicitly included ethics and regulatory dimensions as core analytical lenses in the AI-in-education professional development programme for inspectors and curriculum designers.
D4 Teacher training mandated and funded before rollout 0
D5 Dedicated funding attached to the requirement 0
Workforce 0/8
D6 Employers legally required to train all employees 0
D7 Training must cover ethics and critical evaluation 0
D8 Pre-redundancy training obligation exists 0
D9 Workers have rights when AI used in employment decisions 0
Civil Service & Governance 1/6
D10 Civil servants working with AI must receive training 1 Tunisia's Ministry of Industry, Mines, and Energy oversees the National AI Roadmap, and the country has developed an AI ecosystem through national strategy — but no standalone AI regulatory authority with enforcement powers has been identified. [1]
D11 Minimum training standard is defined 0
D12 Enforcement mechanism exists with named authority 0
Public Access 1/4
D13 Free or publicly funded AI literacy resources available 1 A public AI innovation hub at Novation City (Sousse), built with NVIDIA's Deep Learning Institute, provides accessible AI training resources. The University of Tunis AI institute is publicly funded. [1]
D14 Digital infrastructure support for schools and institutions 0
Index history
May 20, 2026 4/28 Dim 3 added: Ministry of Education PARLE seminar (February 2026) explicitly covered AI ethics as a core dimension in professional development for educational inspectors.
March 25, 2026 3/28 Initial scoring based on National AI Roadmap 2021–2025, the launch of the country's first public AI engineering institute, and the NVIDIA-backed Novation City AI training hub.