Benin

Name: Benin
Address: BJ

Benin has a digital code covering data protection and a national AI and big data strategy for 2023 to 2027, coordinated by the digital ministry.

Law No. 2017-20 (Code du numerique) contains Book 5 on personal data protection, supervised by the APDP. The National Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Strategy 2023 to 2027 was adopted in January 2023 and is coordinated by the Ministry of Digitalisation, with programmes on AI solutions, capacity building, research and governance. A trade report on the 2023 agenda gives the strategy a three-year implementation budget. We found no named compute programme or data centre in these pages.

AI policy and activity

A national AI strategy exists for 2023 to 2027; no binding AI law was found in the pages read.

Power and grid

No data centre or grid information for Benin was found in the pages read.

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Law No. 2017-20, Code du numerique, Book 5 on personal data Read the cited source	Law	In force	Reported. Morrison Foerster privacy library entry names the law and the Autorite de Protection des Donnees a Caractere Personnel (APDP) as the supervisor. The official law text on sgg.gouv.bj could not be read because the download exceeded the fetch size limit. Enactment and commencement dates were not read, so they are left null.
National Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Strategy 2023 to 2027 Read the cited source	Policy	In force	Reported. OECD.AI policy navigator entry says the strategy was adopted in January 2023, runs five years, is coordinated by the Ministry of Digitalisation, has four programmes (AI solutions, capacity building, research and innovation, governance), targets sectors such as education, health and agriculture, and has annual evaluations planned but not yet public. A CIO Mag report (https://cio-mag.com/benin-lagenda-2023-du-secteur-du-numerique/) described a three-year implementation budget. We did not find the strategy document.

Checked on 3 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Benin: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/benin

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@misc{computefinder_countries_benin,
  title        = {Benin: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0094}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0094},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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