Port Moresby, 24 February 2026
Acting Minister for Information and Communications Technology Hon. Peter Tsiamalili Jr has announced the forthcoming release of the Draft PNG Government Artificial Intelligence Adoption Framework: DG × DPI ^ AI, and the coming Public Consultation.
The Draft Framework will be published on 27 February 2026 at www.ict.gov.pg, and the Acting ICT Minister invites public sector agencies, industry, academia, civil society, and development partners to review the Draft Framework and provide feedback through the consultation process that will be published on the official DICT website.
AI is rapidly moving from experimentation to mainstream deployment. Without a clear national framework, adoption risks becoming inconsistent across agencies, thus resulting in fragmented solutions, duplicative investment, and variable standards for security, privacy, and accountability.
The Acting ICT Minister stated that this initiative gives effect to the Prime Minister’s Directives and the Government’s intent to ensure Artificial Intelligence (AI) is adopted across the public sector in a coordinated, safe, and nationally aligned manner.
What DG × DPI ^ AI referes to Government’s strategic logic for AI adoption.
DG stands for Digital Government, representing the desired outcome: modern, efficient, and citizen-centred public services alongside improved public administration. And DPI, or Digital Public Infrastructure, refers to the foundational systems which is secure identity, trusted data exchange, and scalable service delivery, that enable interoperability and reuse across government.
The symbol ^ AI (“to the power of AI”) signifies deliberate acceleration, where Artificial Intelligence is applied atop strong DPI foundations to exponentially enhance the Digital Government agenda. Rather than deploying AI as isolated tools, this approach ensures AI acts as a force multiplier for coordinated, secure, and scalable transformation.
Minister Tsiamalili explained that the Draft Framework sets national direction on governance, architecture, and implementation pathways for AI, including a layered and modular approach across priority use cases-while reinforcing accountability, security, public trust, and sovereign control.
“The Draft Framework also provides for a governance and accountability framework, including consideration of an AI Taskforce, and calls for the development of an ‘Artificial Intelligence legislative framework’ to support implementation.”
Importantly, once finalized and endorsed, this Framework will set the national tone and rapidly drive the adoption of AI across the whole of Government, ensuring agencies move with shared standards, shared foundations, and a common implementation direction.
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