October 6, 2026
The draft law establishing the Ministry of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence has taken an additional legislative step towards approval, after the parliamentary subcommittee charged with studying it reached agreement on most of its provisions, with the discussion of the remaining articles to be completed during a session held in about two weeks.
This development came after a meeting of the parliamentary subcommittee, headed by Representative Tony Franjieh, devoted to discussing the articles of the draft law, where consensus was reached on most of them, while a decision on a limited number of provisions was postponed for further study and scrutiny.
The session was attended by MPs: Saeed Al-Asmar, Bilal Al-Hashimi, Yassin Yassin, Alain Aoun, Razi Al-Hajj, Adnan Trabelsi, Ashraf Baydoun, Hassan Ezz El-Din, and Rami Abu Hamdan. The Director General of the Ministry of Displaced Persons, Ahmed Mahmoud, and Nadine Shawi, representing the Ministries of Displaced Persons and Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence, also participated in it, along with Hala Rashid and Dimitri Stefano, representatives of the Office of the Minister of State for Administrative Development Affairs.
Commenting on the proceedings of the session, the Minister of State for Technology and Artificial Intelligence and the Minister of Displaced Persons, Kamal Shehadeh, explained that this legislative progress places Lebanon on the threshold of establishing a clear institutional framework for the technology and artificial intelligence sector, in line with the requirements of digital transformation and enhances the sector’s development path.
Shehadeh stressed that the priority for the next stage lies in completing the remaining legislative steps, in preparation for the official announcement of the establishment of the Ministry of Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence within a clear institutional structure that supports the digital economy.
It is noteworthy that these efforts come in the context of an ongoing process to create a ministry specialized in technology and artificial intelligence affairs, especially after this portfolio was assigned in the current government formation to a minister of state, pending the completion of the legislative and legal framework regulating the work of the prospective ministry.
