Policy & Regulation
Digital policy, data sovereignty, tech regulation and government digitalization in Algeria and the region.
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Open Source AI Agents: When 600 Contributors Build Faster Than Big Tech
On Valentine's Day 2026, Peter Steinberger published three quiet paragraphs on his personal blog announcing he was joining OpenAI. Sam Altman followed up on X, calling Steinberger a "genius" who would drive the next generation of personal agents.
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Age Verification Online: The Global Push to Prove You’re Old Enough for the Internet
The World Decided Children Should Not Have Unrestricted Internet Access The political consensus arrived with remarkable speed. Between 2023 and 2025, a cascade of legislation across democracies established that online platforms must verify the age of their users — or face severe consequences.
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Digital Accessibility Laws: How WCAG Mandates and the EU Accessibility Act Are Reshaping
The Regulatory Turning Point Digital accessibility has crossed a threshold from voluntary best practice to legal obligation in major markets worldwide. The European Accessibility Act (EAA), which took effect on June 28, 2025, requires all digital products and services sold in EU
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Algeria’s Audiovisual and Online Media Law: What the .dz Hosting Mandate Means for
The New Legal Landscape for Digital Content in Algeria In December 2023, Algeria enacted Law No. 23-20 on audiovisual activity, a sweeping overhaul that extends broadcast-era regulation into the digital sphere.
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Algeria’s Telecom Regulation: How ARPCE Governs Spectrum, Licensing, and Competition
ARPCE: The Regulator Behind Algeria's Connectivity ARPCE (Autorité de Régulation de la Poste et des Communications Electroniques) is the entity that determines what nearly 47.5 million Algerians can access on their phones, how much they pay for it, and which companies are
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Algeria’s Research and Innovation Ecosystem: R&D Incentives, ATRST
Algeria's R&D Spending in Context Algeria allocates an estimated 0.5% of its GDP to research and development -- a figure that has remained stubbornly low for over a decade. For comparison, Morocco spends roughly 0.7% of GDP on R&D, Tunisia approximately 0.7%, South Korea 5.3%,
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Government IT Procurement in Algeria: How Technology Tenders Work and Why They Often Don’t
The Scale of Government IT Spending The Algerian government is, by a wide margin, the largest buyer of information technology in the country. Across 69 wilayas, dozens of ministries, hundreds of public enterprises, and major agencies like Sonatrach, Sonelgaz, and Algerie
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Open Source as National Policy: Should Algeria Mandate Government Software Transparency?
The Cost of Proprietary Dependency Algeria's government runs on software it does not control. Across ministries, wilayas, and public enterprises, the technology stack is overwhelmingly proprietary: Microsoft Windows and Office dominate desktops, Oracle databases underpin
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Algeria’s Labor Code and Remote Work: The Legal Framework That Doesn’t Exist Yet
The Reality on the Ground Remote work in Algeria is widespread and entirely unregulated. Thousands of Algerian tech professionals -- developers, designers, data analysts, content creators, and IT support staff -- work from home for both Algerian employers and international clients.
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Software and Intellectual Property in Algeria: What Developers and Startups Need to Know
The IP Framework Most Algerian Developers Have Never Read Algeria has a surprisingly comprehensive intellectual property framework on paper. Ordinance 03-05 of July 19, 2003, governs copyright and neighboring rights.
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E-Waste and Environmental Compliance in Algeria’s Tech Sector: The Growing Problem
The Scale of a Problem No One Is Measuring Algeria generated an estimated 309,000 tonnes (309 kilotonnes) of electronic waste in 2019, according to the Regional E-waste Monitor for the Arab States 2021, published by UNITAR, ITU, and SCYCLE. That figure makes Algeria the
