{"id":48213,"date":"2026-01-23T20:02:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=48213"},"modified":"2026-01-23T20:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:02:51","slug":"egypt-tops-africa-in-oxford-insights-2025-government-ai-readiness-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/01\/23\/egypt-tops-africa-in-oxford-insights-2025-government-ai-readiness-index\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Tops Africa in Oxford Insights\u2019 2025 Government AI Readiness Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Egypt has ranked first in Africa in the <strong>Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025<\/strong>, climbing 14 places to <strong>51st globally out of 195 countries<\/strong> with a score of <strong>57.5<\/strong>, up from <strong>65th<\/strong> in 2024 with <strong>55.6<\/strong> points. The country also placed <strong>fourth<\/strong> in the Middle East and Africa region, improving from seventh last year.<\/p>\n<p>Oxford Insights\u2019 index measures how prepared governments are to adopt and govern AI, including their ability to develop effective strategies, build infrastructure and manage risks linked to AI deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt achieved a <strong>perfect score of 100<\/strong> in the <strong>Policy Capacity<\/strong> pillar, tying with the <strong>United Kingdom, Serbia and Australia<\/strong>. The pillar evaluates a government\u2019s ability to design and implement AI policies aligned with a clear national vision, including the resources required to deliver that vision and engagement in international agreements.<\/p>\n<p>The country also ranked <strong>first in the Arab region<\/strong> in the <strong>Resilience<\/strong> pillar, scoring <strong>62.81<\/strong>, and placed <strong>second in the Middle East and Africa<\/strong> behind Kenya, which scored <strong>69.68<\/strong>. The Resilience pillar measures a country\u2019s ability to manage the social, economic and environmental pressures that may arise from widespread AI adoption.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Communications and Information Technology <strong>Amr Talaat<\/strong> said the results reflect Egypt\u2019s progress in applying AI technologies in service delivery through an integrated policy framework and the rollout of the second edition of the country\u2019s <strong>National AI Strategy<\/strong> earlier in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s National AI Strategy is structured around six pillars: strengthening governance for responsible AI use, developing applications to improve service efficiency, improving data availability and quality, providing advanced infrastructure, building an innovation-supportive ecosystem, and expanding national AI talent.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has also shown sustained improvement in recent years, rising from <strong>111th globally in 2019<\/strong> to <strong>65th in 2024<\/strong>, before moving up again to <strong>51st in 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Egypt #Tops #Africa #Oxford #Insights #Government #Readiness #Index<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt has ranked first in Africa in the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025, climbing 14 places to 51st&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11],"tags":[151,3151,543,9579,6373,9578,759,2922],"class_list":["post-48213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi","category-world","tag-africa","tag-egypt","tag-government","tag-index","tag-insights","tag-oxford","tag-readiness","tag-tops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48215,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48213\/revisions\/48215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}