Format: Analysis
Skills & Careers
The Global Tech Talent Shortage: 4 Million Unfilled Roles and Counting
Introduction The global technology industry is living through a paradox that defies simple economic logic. Hundreds of thousands of tech workers were laid off in 2022-2024 as companies corrected post-pandemic over-hiring.
Skills & Careers
AI and the Future of Work: What’s Really Happening to Jobs in 2026
Introduction The question dominating the 2026 World Economic Forum at Davos was not whether AI would change work — that debate is settled. It was how fast, how profoundly, and what kind of society emerges on the other side of the transformation.
Skills & Careers
Tech Hiring: The Top 10 Skills Employers Are Looking for in Algeria in 2026
Introduction Algeria's technology labor market in 2026 is characterized by a paradox familiar to many fast-growing economies: a large pool of educated graduates and a simultaneous, acute shortage of specific high-demand skills. Employers report spending months searching for
Skills & Careers
Algeria’s Brain Drain Crisis: Why Engineers Are Leaving and What It Will Take to Stop Them
Introduction The numbers are stark. A study of engineering graduates at ESI (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique) — one of Algeria's most prestigious computer science schools — found that 95% of current engineering students want to leave the country after graduation.
Policy & Regulation
E-Commerce in Algeria: The .com.dz Domain Requirement, Trade Registry
Introduction Algeria's e-commerce sector is growing. With 33.49 million internet users as of early 2024 — a 72.9% penetration rate, up 3.9% year-on-year — and a young, mobile-first population increasingly comfortable with online transactions, the market fundamentals are compelling.
Policy & Regulation
Algeria’s National Cybersecurity Strategy 2025–2029: A Deep-Dive Analysis
Introduction On December 30, 2025, President Tebboune signed Presidential Decree No. 25-321, formally approving Algeria's National Cybersecurity Strategy for 2025–2029.
Skills & Careers
Women in Tech in Algeria: A Global Leader in Education, Lagging in the Workplace
Introduction By several measures, Algeria is a genuine outlier on gender and education. More than 60% of university students are women.
Policy & Regulation
The Global Privacy Map in 2026: 140+ Countries, One Digital Economy, Zero Consensus
In 2018, when the EU's General Data Protection Regulation took effect, many predicted it would either become a global privacy standard or collapse under its own complexity. Eight years later, the verdict is in: it did both.
Policy & Regulation
Big Tech on Trial: The Global Antitrust Wave Reshaping the Tech Industry in 2025-2026
The dream of Silicon Valley's golden era — that technology companies could grow without limits, displace entire industries, and operate by their own rules — is colliding with a global regulatory reckoning in 2025 and 2026. Antitrust authorities in the United States, European
Policy & Regulation
Trump’s AI Revolution: Deregulation, Dominance, and the Fight Over America’s AI Future
On January 20, 2025, within hours of taking office for the second time, President Donald Trump signed one of his most consequential technology executive orders: revocation of Joe Biden's landmark AI safety framework, Executive Order 14110. With a stroke of a pen, the most
Policy & Regulation
The EU AI Act: The World’s First Major AI Law Is Now in Force
On August 1, 2024, the European Union's Artificial Intelligence Act entered into force — and the world of AI regulation changed forever. For the first time in history, a major economic bloc enacted comprehensive, legally binding rules governing how artificial intelligence may
