An ecosystem of independent stakeholders.
The AI Registry, the operators who run it, the integrators who connect it, the audiences it serves, and the path to federation - independent parties held together only by open standards and stable identifiers.
Open-source infrastructure for sovereign AI discovery
The registry catalogues sovereign AI resources — models, agents, and MCP tools — and exposes them through a stable discovery API. It never sits on the runtime path.
Registry Operator
Runs the public portal, discovery API and review workflow. Issues AIR-IDs and maintains the audit log.
Provider
Owns the resource: endpoints, documentation, terms of access, version control. Remains fully responsible.
Hosting Environment
Runs the actual workload - sovereign cloud, GPU, on-prem - and may issue runtime SVIDs via SPIFFE/SPIRE.
Who runs the registry?
Best operated by organisations that already run trusted, neutral, national-scale digital services on behalf of broader ecosystems - the legitimacy, capability and convening power matter as much as the technology. Mauritius Telecom operates the reference instance at www.airegistry.mu.
What makes a DPI enabler
- Trusted to operate critical digital infrastructure for many parties, not just for themselves.
- Already integrated with government, industry and developer ecosystems.
- Comfortable with standards, interconnection and long-lived public services.
- Predictable governance and operational continuity over years, not project cycles.
Natural operator profiles
In any given country, one or two organisations typically stand out.
Telcos - operator
National infrastructure, enterprise ecosystems, interconnection, deep government relationships, hosting adjacency and sovereign-cloud ambitions - though hosting AI remains separate from operating the registry.
Government - policy sponsor
The most resilient model is a partnership: government provides policy legitimacy and sector convening; the operator (telco or other DPI enabler) provides platform operations and technical implementation.
Accredited partners who connect the ecosystem
Implementation partners, system integrators and independent reviewers who participate in sovereign deployments and governance reviews.
Implementation & onboarding
Help providers prepare submissions, gather sovereignty evidence and integrate AIR-IDs into existing systems.
Independent review
Supply reviewer capacity, subject-matter expertise and second-opinion checks for the sovereignty rubric.
Custom build & extension
Extend AIR-Core for a jurisdiction - schema additions, sector configuration, federation tooling.
Adoption & enablement
Train provider teams, run discovery workshops and embed the registry into national AI strategies.
Built for the people who govern, build, and use AI
Decision-makers, regulators, developers, researchers, and citizens — everyone who needs trustworthy, discoverable AI infrastructure.
Governments & policy-makers
- A sovereign locus for AI discovery, distinct from global platforms and free of vendor lock-in.
- Practical instrument for national AI strategy: visible capabilities, named providers, transparent review.
- Foundation for DPI that complements identity, payments and data-exchange platforms.
Industry & providers
- A credible place to publish locally relevant AI resources to a known audience.
- Provider verification and official-resource status - signals trust without legal exposure.
- Standardised metadata that lets resources plug into AI systems, agents and integrations.
Developers & AI systems
- Single, machine-readable place to discover sovereign AI by jurisdiction, capability or sovereignty basis.
- Stable identifiers (AIR-IDs) that survive provider rebrands or endpoint changes.
- Clear endpoint and protocol metadata: REST today, MCP and A2A as ecosystems mature.
Citizens & businesses
- AI systems that can find and use locally accurate tools - tax calculators, legal references, services.
- Visible governance signals that distinguish 'officially endorsed' from 'self-declared'.
- A sovereign alternative to opaque global directories where local relevance is invisible.
From one registry to a federated network
The architecture is designed for federation. Each sovereign jurisdiction can run its own registry instance while remaining interoperable through shared AIR-IDs and open standards.
Bilateral & explicit
Registries federate by deliberate agreement; no automatic or transitive trust.
Metadata first
Discovery references - not shared databases or runtime access.
Runtime identity external
Hosting providers may bind workloads to AIR-IDs via SPIFFE/SPIRE - outside registry scope.
Sovereignty preserved
Each registry remains independently operated, governed and populated.
Join the open ecosystem
Intentionally small, open and sovereign. The value comes from restraint - and from others deploying and governing their own. Mauritius Telecom is building the reference; the next steps are adoption, contribution and partnership.
Adopt
Stand up a national or municipal AI Registry using the open-source AIR-Core platform with your own configuration.
Contribute
Improve the open-source codebase, propose schema changes, share country-specific configuration or sovereignty rubrics.
Partner
Co-publish governance models, federation agreements, or shared reviewer rosters with peer registries.
Observe
Track www.airegistry.mu, study the operating model, and decide if and how to deploy in your context.