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title: "Localisation (by jurisdiction)"
description: "Controlling where an AI system runs and which features it offers in each jurisdiction, with per-jurisdiction rule sets as code, regional instances where residency requires them and feature flags by…"
canonical: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/localisation-by-jurisdiction
author: "Jorge García Aibar"
license: "CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)"
doi: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197
version: "0.5.0"
updated: 2026-09-25
---

# Localisation (by jurisdiction)

Controlling where an AI system runs and which features it offers in each jurisdiction, with per-jurisdiction rule sets as code, regional instances where residency requires them and feature flags by region, so one market can be switched off without touching the others. A system launches in a jurisdiction only once its duties there are shown to be met.

- Developed in: [ch. 15, Localisation by jurisdiction](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-deployment#localisation-by-jurisdiction); [ch. 05, Pattern: Deactivation, Localisation & Retirement Runbook](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/patterns/deactivation-localisation-retirement-runbook)
- Chapters: [ch. 05, Patterns](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/patterns) · [ch. 12, Governance Program](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governance-program) · [ch. 15, Deployment](https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/governing-deployment)
- In the glossary chapter: https://aigovernanceengineer.com/bok/glossary#t-localisation-by-jurisdiction

## Sources

Defined by this Body of Knowledge: the section it is developed in is the source.