On 27 May 2021, the Slovenian government adopted its National AI programme.
Name in original language
Nacionalni program spodbujanja razvoja in uporabe umetne inteligence v Republiki Sloveniji do leta 2025 (NpUI)
Initiative overview
On the basis of the European Artificial Intelligence Strategy for Europe COM (2018) 237 and the Coordinated Artificial Intelligence Plan COM (2018) 795, the Ministry of Public Administration, at that time responsible for Information Society, prepared a national artificial intelligence strategy. In April 2020, the Directorate for the Information Society prepared the first draft strategy, which was the subject of broader inter-ministerial coordination. In May 2021, the strategy was adopted. Slovenias National Programme on AI (NpAI) is in line with certain key goals from the Digital Slovenia 20320 Development Strategy (DS2030), which defines the strategic goals of digitalisation in Slovenia until 2030. The NpAI follows the DS2030 vision of seizing the development opportunities of ICT and the Internet to become an advanced digital society.The initiative has the following objectives:Strategic goal 1: Building a dynamic ecosystem of stakeholders for research, innovation and deployment of AIStrategic goal 10: Establish a national AI Observatory in SloveniaStrategic goal 2: Ensure proper Education and strengthening of human resourcesStrategic goal 3: Supporting research and innovation in the field of AI Strategic goal 4: Deploying reference AI solutions in business, the public sector, public and state administration and societyStrategic goal 5: Establishing the technical infrastructure for AI research, development and deploymentStrategic goal 6: Strengthening security through the use of AIStrategic goal 7: Increasing public trust in AIStrategic goal 8: Ensuring an appropriate legal and ethical frameworkStrategic goal 9: Strengthening international cooperation The national programme is designed to support research, development and uptake of ethical and trustworthy AI, assuring safety, and human rights, in a user centric way that benefits humans and society, based on our long-time research experience and capacity in AI. Within this approach, some sectors have been identified as the most promising for the use of AI, thus have been prioritized for the direct support of uptake of AI. These include health, industry 4.0, language technologies and cultural identity, public sector, sustainable food and environment and spatial planning.
Action plan/roadmap
To achieve each strategic objective, the Programme sets out a series of measures. For each measure, the National Programme also sets out key performance indicators.
Who has primary responsibility for developing the national AI strategy?
Ministry
Name of responsible organisation (in English)
Ministry of Digital Transformation | Society Directorate
Who has primary responsibility to implementing the national strategy?
Ministry
Name of responsible organisation for strategy implementation (in English)
Ministry of Digital Transformation | Society Directorate
Budget information available?
Available
Estimated budget expenditure range per year in Euros (EUR)
€110,000,000.00
To what extent do you have mechanisms or other efforts to involve stakeholders in strategy design, implementation and monitoring?
Stakeholder consultation(s) and other engagement.
To what extent are there mechanisms that ensure inter-governmental coordination?
The National AI Programme has a special governance structure led by the Ministry of Digital Transformation, with a Programme Board and multi-stakeholder working group. External experts and stakeholder representatives help guide implementation. The Ministry coordinates and monitors the programme.
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Has this initiative been evaluated?
Yes
Are evaluation results public?
No
