AI regulation in Suriname: laws & policy (2026)

Suriname has not enacted a comprehensive AI law, sectoral AI regulation, or a standalone national AI strategy. AI governance is not the subject of any binding or dedicated policy document; it is referenced only within a general digital-transformation strategy.

The National Digital Strategy 2023-2030 frames AI as an enabling tool across sectors (education, healthcare, agriculture, oil and gas, public services) and stresses building local AI expertise, ensuring data privacy, and raising public awareness, but sets no rules, obligations, or oversight mechanisms for AI.

The strategy was developed by the Presidential Working Group on e-Government with UNDP support as a planning framework with short- (2023-2025), medium- (2025-2027) and long-term (2027-2030) goals; it is policy guidance for digital transformation rather than a regulatory or AI-governance regime.

Suriname has no in-force personal-data-protection law. A draft Privacy and Personal Data Protection Bill (Wet Bescherming Privacy en Persoonsgegevens), providing for consent, individual rights, controller obligations, and an independent data-protection authority, has been pending before the National Assembly, with stakeholder feedback submitted as far back as 2021.

Suriname's ICT Vision 2030 lists advancing technologies such as AI, IoT, and digital services (e-health, e-education) and calls for managing technological risks through cybersecurity and privacy policies, but again contains no AI-specific governance or compliance requirements.

External regulatory trackers covering Suriname (e.g., UNIDIR's AI Policy Portal and Caribbean data-protection/AI surveys) record only the National Digital Strategy and a pending data-protection bill, with no separate AI law, regulation, or national AI strategy identified.