Malaysia: Adopted MOSTI National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025

On 1 December 2021, the Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) adopted the National Artificial Intelligence Roadmap 2021-2025. The initiative developed through a collaborative effort involving government, academia, industry, and society, aims to create a sustainable AI innovation ecosystem in Malaysia. Central to the Roadmap is the AI Innovation Ecosystem Framework, which includes the AI Innovation Hub, also known as the AI-Catalyst, to expedite the implementation of national AI use cases. The roadmap's development featured strategic alignment with global and national strategy documents, strategic collaboration across the Quadruple Helix model, and the use of fully virtual and online meetings for its creation. The main strategies include establishing an AI governance, advancing the research and development related to AI, establishing a digital infrastructure to enable AI, fostering AI talents, acculturating AI and starting a national AI innovation system.