Format: Analysis
Digital Economy
Trust at Scale: SATIM Hardens Algeria’s Payment Rails with AI and Tokenization
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s electronic payments reached 939 billion dinars in 2025, up 46% from 2024, with more than 22...
Policy & Regulation
Algeria E-Procurement Portal: Digital Tender Access for Startups and SMEs in 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s national procurement portal (marches-publics.gov.dz) now accepts fully electronic bid submissions, formalized by a Finance Ministry decree...
Cybersecurity & Risk
Citrix Bleed 2: A NetScaler Patching Advisory for Algerian Banks and Enterprises
⚡ Key Takeaways Citrix Bleed 2 (CVE-2025-5777) is an out-of-bounds memory read in NetScaler ADC and Gateway that leaks live...
AI & Automation
Algeria’s Insurers Turn to AI: Automating Underwriting and Motor Claims in 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways Algerian insurers running 8-14 day motor claim cycles can now issue a bound quote in about 90...
Startups
General Intuition’s $320M Bet: Video Games as the Training Ground for AI Agents
⚡ Key Takeaways General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation to train AI ‘action models’ on billions...
Skills & Careers
AI Evals Engineer: The First Technical Hire Every AI Product Company Now Wants
⚡ Key Takeaways Applied-AI companies including Perplexity, Cursor, Harvey and Sierra now hire an AI evals engineer among their first...
Infrastructure & Cloud
Data Centers Under the Sea: Offshore Wind and Ocean Cooling Go Live in 2026
⚡ Key Takeaways China’s HiCloud Technology brought a 24-megawatt underwater data center off Shanghai’s Lin-gang coast into full commercial operation...
Digital Economy
BaridiMob’s Rise: How Algeria’s Postal Wallet Now Powers 70% of Edahabia Payments
⚡ Key Takeaways BaridiMob now carries roughly 70% of all Edahabia digital payments — about 60 million transactions a year...
Policy & Regulation
ANPDP Regional Hubs: Data-Protection Oversight Comes Closer to Algerian Business
⚡ Key Takeaways Article 27 bis of Law 25-11 (24 July 2025) equips Algeria’s data-protection authority, the ANPDP, with regional...
Cybersecurity & Risk
Cyber Risk Reaches the Boardroom: A Governance Playbook for Algerian Companies
⚡ Key Takeaways Cyber risk has moved from the IT department to the board agenda across Africa: 62% of African...
AI & Automation
Algeria’s Agripreneurs Programme: How EU-Backed AI and Drones Reshape Farming
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s Agripreneurs programme, co-financed by the EU and Germany and implemented by GIZ, is backing 40 innovators...
