From 27 to 30 October 2025, a total of 50 Members of Parliament, 37 from the National Council and 13 from the National Assembly, convened at Gross Barmen for a Parliamentary Training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Rule of Law. UNESCO, the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS), the National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST), and the Directorate of Research and Innovation under the Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture jointly organized the workshop.
The objective of the training was to strengthen parliamentarians’ understanding of AI and the various ways in which it may be utilized ethically, to support policy and decision-making, and strengthen the rule of law in Namibia. It was developed further to the adoption of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence by UNESCO Member States in 2021, and the launch of Namibia’s AI Readiness Assessment Report in August 2025, which provided key findings and recommendations across the legal, social, cultural, scientific, educational, economic and technical domains.