Scope: Algeria Focus
Cybersecurity & Risk
Algeria’s Data Protection Law (18-07): What Every Business Must Know in 2026
Algeria enacted Law No. 18-07 on the protection of personal data in June 2018 — modeled substantially on Europe's GDPR — but for most of its existence it functioned more on paper than in practice.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Algeria Under Siege: 70 Million Cyber Attacks and the New National Defense Framework
Algeria does not typically make headlines in global cybersecurity circles. But the numbers demand attention: in 2024, Algerian cybersecurity systems detected and blocked over 70 million cyber attacks, according to Kaspersky data — a figure that placed the country 17th globally
Infrastructure & Cloud
Edge Computing and IoT in Algeria: How 5G Is Rewriting the Rules of Industrial
Introduction For decades, computing followed a centralizing logic: data flowed from where it was generated to distant data centers for processing. That model is breaking down.
Infrastructure & Cloud
AI Infrastructure: Algeria Breaks Ground on Its First Data Center in Oran
Algeria has laid the foundation stone for its first dedicated artificial intelligence data center in Oran, marking a milestone in the country's push for digital sovereignty. The facility, located in the Akid Lotfi district, will house latest-generation GPU clusters for AI
Infrastructure & Cloud
Data Sovereignty in the Cloud: How Algeria’s Localization Laws Are Reshaping Enterprise IT
Algeria has rapidly tightened its data-localization and sovereignty rules, forcing cloud and IT services operating in the country to adapt. With no AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud region on Algerian soil, the question of where data lives — and under whose legal authority —
Infrastructure & Cloud
Cloud Migration for Algerian SMEs: A Practical Guide to Getting Started
Algeria's SME sector — approximately 1.2 million enterprises — is at a digital crossroads. Global competitors run on cloud-native infrastructure.
Infrastructure & Cloud
Algeria’s Cloud Market Will Hit $450 Million by 2035: What’s Driving the Growth
Algeria's data center and cloud infrastructure market is set to nearly double over the next decade. According to DC Market Insights, the market will grow from approximately $218 million in 2025 to $447 million by 2035 — a compound annual growth rate of 7.39%.
Infrastructure & Cloud
5G Is Here: How Algeria’s Network Revolution Will Reshape Cloud, IoT, and Enterprise Tech
After years of regulatory groundwork and infrastructure investment, Algeria officially inaugurated 5G mobile services on December 3, 2025, at a ceremony at the Abdelatif-Rahal International Conference Center in Algiers. Minister of Post and Telecommunications Sid Ali Zerrouki
Skills & Careers
The Startup Paradox: Algeria Has More Engineers Than Startups
Algeria's tech talent base is the envy of North Africa. Yet the country's startup count remains disproportionately low.
Skills & Careers
Algeria’s Scale Centers: Inside the National Upskilling Program That Could Train 100
In the global race to build AI capacity, the bottleneck is almost never algorithms or compute — it is people. Countries that produce the most skilled AI practitioners will capture the most economic value from the technology.
AI & Automation
Smart Agriculture in Algeria: Can AI Feed 47 Million People More Efficiently?
Agriculture is Algeria's second economic pillar — contributing 12.4% of GDP and employing nearly 10% of the active workforce. But the sector faces a convergence of mounting pressures: water scarcity intensified by climate change, declining soil quality in overfarmed northern
