METoolkits & Guides
AI in Education Guidance and AI Guidance Toolkit
Maine Department of Education
Maine DOE's technology guidance for school administrative units, including best practices for AI in education and an interactive AI Guidance Toolkit (released Feb 2025) with scenarios, a framework for district AI policies, and digital citizenship foundations.
MEStandards & Frameworks
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Policy
Maine Office of Information Technology (DAFS)
Executive Branch policy issued July 19, 2024, replacing the June 2023 GenAI moratorium. Outputs require human vetting and attribution, sensitive and non-public data may not be entered, only OIT-approved tools and use cases are allowed, and vendors must disclose GenAI use.
MEStandards & Frameworks
Maine AI Task Force Report
Office of Governor Janet Mills / Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future
Report of the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (created by executive order, Dec 2024), released Oct 31, 2025. Its 34 recommendations include a public AI literacy campaign, workforce and entrepreneurship support, educator training, rural health care uses, consumer and child protections, and transparency for state AI tools.
METoolkits & Guides
MERC-AI: Generative AI Learning for Maine Businesses
Maine Technology Institute (MTI)
MTI initiative announced March 2025, run with Coursera, giving MTI-eligible Maine businesses free access to more than 350 generative AI courses, from fundamentals to topics such as AI for marketing and grant writing.
METoolkits & Guides
UMaine AI
University of Maine
University of Maine AI initiative, chaired by the Associate VP for Research, offering collaboration opportunities, workforce development, AI policy and guidance resources, and the Maine AI Conference (first held in June 2024 in Portland).