Togo is developing a national artificial intelligence strategy to govern AI use across public administration and other sectors. The Minister of Public Service Efficiency and Digital Transformation outlined the strategy’s priorities: guidelines for public services, support for local research, and definition of an appropriate regulatory framework. The strategy emerged from a forum in Lome on “AI and Democratic Governance” and subsequent ministerial planning.
The strategy aims to digitize all ministries within eighteen months, generating large data volumes requiring clear governance rules. Togo has also announced plans to deploy an AI agent in its school system as part of the broader digital transformation, and the strategy addresses data sharing and regional coordination with West Africa.
The document remains in draft form with no enacted legislation or binding enforcement mechanism yet in place. The governance forum that preceded the strategy (already filed as 2026-03-17-togo-ai-governance-forum.md) established the advisory direction; this filing covers the formal strategy drafting process announced subsequently.
Score relevance: National AI strategy now in active drafting with regulatory framework component; moves governance from pure forum to formal strategy process. Scored: dim 10 stays at 1 (advisory/strategic, no full regulator yet).