Island AI Policy Tracker
Which islands have AI policies—and how far do those policies respond to island conditions rather than simply reproducing national AI templates?
Island AI policy across the world
Select a point to identify the instrument and open its full Tracker record.
National and territorial records are plotted within their jurisdictions. Regional records are placed at the coordinating or publishing institution, or at the programme venue, and remain explicitly labelled as regional.
Scope, evidence and classification
The Tracker includes sovereign island states, island jurisdictions and regional instruments with direct relevance to island AI governance. It separates adopted strategies, operational guidance, formal recommendations, work in development and regional frameworks. “Island-centred lens” is a qualitative reading of whether an instrument addresses such matters as archipelagic inequality, small languages, cultural or Indigenous data authority, cable and cloud dependency, constrained energy and water, blue economies, disasters or local capacity. It is not a ranking of overall policy quality.
Every positive entry is tied to an identifiable government, intergovernmental or stable institutional record. Absence claims are dated and qualified. A record is updated when an instrument changes status; the verification date records when its source and description were last checked. A monitoring review runs on the first Monday of each month. Proposed policy changes remain subject to source verification and approval before publication.
Policy records
Interpretive caution. An island state can have a mature AI strategy with little island-specific content; a short recommendation can express a strong island principle without having implementation power. Read policy maturity and island-centredness separately. This tracker accompanies AI-slands Working Paper No. 3. Visitors can also read the living Policy Tracker research review.