Policy & Regulation
Digital policy, data sovereignty, tech regulation and government digitalization in Algeria and the region.
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Digital Accessibility in Algeria: Why Government Websites Fail Screen Readers and What the Law Should Say
The Invisible Exclusion Algeria’s 1998 census recorded approximately 1.6 million persons with disabilities, a figure that was subsequently estimated at...
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Consumer Rights in Algeria’s Digital Markets: Returns, Refunds, and the Protection Gap
A Consumer Protection Law Built for Brick and Mortar Algeria’s primary consumer protection legislation — Law 09-03 of February 25,...
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Algeria’s Competition Law Comes to Digital Markets: What Platform Dominance Means for Tech Companies
Digital Markets Enter Algeria’s Antitrust Framework Algeria’s competition law framework, originally enacted through Ordinance No. 03-03 of July 19, 2003,...
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Space Tech Regulation: How Satellite Internet, Debris, and Launch Licensing Are Creating New Policy Challenges
The New Space Race Is a Regulatory Vacuum SpaceX’s Starlink constellation has grown to approximately 9,800 satellites in orbit as...
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Net Neutrality and the Splinternet: Is the Open Internet Fragmenting Beyond Repair?
The Internet Was Never Supposed to Have Borders The foundational design of the internet — packet switching, open protocols, end-to-end...
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The Gig Economy Reckoning: How Global Labor Classification Laws Are Reshaping Platform Work
Hundreds of Millions of Workers, One Unresolved Question The scale of global platform work defies easy measurement. Survey-based methods estimate...
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The Environmental Regulation of Big Tech: Carbon Reporting, Scope 3 Emissions, and the Cloud’s Climate Footprint
The Inconvenient Numbers The tech industry has cultivated a green image — paperless offices, video calls replacing flights, efficient cloud...
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Digital Trade Agreements: The Invisible Rules Shaping How Data and Services Cross Borders
The Quiet Architecture of the Digital Economy The rules governing how data crosses borders are not being written by technologists...
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The Taxation of Digital Giants: Digital Services Taxes, OECD Pillar One, and the $200 Billion Question
The Problem: Where Value Is Created vs. Where Profits Are Booked The international corporate tax system was designed in the...
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Digital Accessibility Laws: How WCAG Mandates and the EU Accessibility Act Are Reshaping the Web
The Regulatory Turning Point Digital accessibility has crossed a threshold from voluntary best practice to legal obligation in major markets...
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Civic Tech and Open Government: How Technology Is Transforming Citizen Participation in Democracy
The Promise of Technology-Enabled Democracy Civic technology — tools and platforms that enable citizens to participate in governance, access public...
