Composite Score
30.5
out of 100
Antigua and Barbuda places in Tier 3 of the ITU Global Cybersecurity Index 2024 — an establishing posture with measurable progress and identified gaps. A data-protection statute is in active preparation, but not yet in force, and no designated supervisory authority is publicly identified in the IAPP Global Privacy Directory at this Edition. On the question of artificial intelligence policy, no national AI policy is yet registered in the OECD AI Policy Observatory; on the question of open-government practice, Antigua and Barbuda is not currently an Open Government Partnership member. Domestic data-center capacity is not currently surveyed by the Cushman & Wakefield and CBRE datasets at a level sufficient for ranking, and foundational digital identity coverage is not yet captured at a measurable level by the World Bank ID4D dataset.
With a composite of 30.5 out of 100, Antigua and Barbuda sits at rank 144th out of the 194 States surveyed in Edition 0. The country's strongest pillar at this Edition is Technical & Operational Safeguards, scoring 4.3 out of 10; its thinnest is Sovereign Haven Infrastructure, at 1.9 out of 10. Within the Americas region, Antigua and Barbuda sits below the regional average composite of 43.4. The pillar pattern is the substantive material the Charter invites the State to engage with — neither a leaderboard position, nor a final verdict, but a structured picture of where the open-source record is full and where it remains to be built.
On the side of what helps: at this Edition the open-source record records limited established structural protections; the work of building those protections forward is the agenda of the Charter. On the side of what has not yet been done: the data-protection statute remains in draft, so the statutory floor is not yet operative; no designated supervisory authority is publicly identified at this Edition, leaving the institutional channel for enforcement underdeveloped; no national AI policy is yet registered in the OECD AI Policy Observatory, so the public baseline against which Article 6 might be tested has not been laid down; the capital-crime exception is not as narrowly framed as Article 4.3 of the Charter contemplates, so compulsory access to encrypted data is not yet bounded in a way the Charter would recognize; there is no public registry of access requests under the capital-crime exception, leaving the question of compulsory access opaque to citizens and to international observers.
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