Scope: Algeria Focus
Skills & Careers
Algeria’s 40 Digital Training Programs: Can Vocational Reform Close the Skills Gap?
Algeria launched 40 vocational programs in software, AI, cybersecurity, and cloud. Can the RNFC competency framework produce 500,000 ICT specialists by 2030?
Digital Economy
Dzair Services: Algeria’s Unified Digital Government Portal Explained
Algeria's Dzair Services platform centralizes public services across 46 government entities. Analysis of the vision, infrastructure, challenges, and benchmarks.
Startups
ASC 2025 Algiers: How Algeria’s $1B Fund and 9-Point Declaration Reshape African Startups
The 4th African Startup Conference drew 25,000+ to Algiers and produced the Algiers Declaration with 9 commitments. What Algeria's startups gain from it.
Skills & Careers
Cybersecurity Careers Algeria: How the 2025-2029 Strategy Reshaped Demand
Algeria's cybersecurity strategy mandates security teams across critical sectors. With 70M attacks in 2024 and thin talent supply, here's how to break in.
Digital Economy
Algeria Joins PAPSS: What Pan-African Payments Mean for Cross-Border Trade
Algeria became the 18th country to join PAPSS in August 2025, connecting its banks to pan-African cross-border payments. What it means for trade and fintech.
Cybersecurity & Risk
Algeria’s 5G Rollout: Cybersecurity Risks the Sector Must Confront Now
Algeria's $492M 5G rollout across 8 provinces exposes 54.8M subscribers to SS7 exploits, SBA vulnerabilities, and cross-slice attacks. What must change.
Digital Economy
BNPL in Algeria: How the Jumia-Diar Dzair Partnership Is Reshaping Consumer Finance
Algeria's first BNPL service launched June 2025 via Jumia and Diar Dzair. How buy now pay later reshapes consumer finance in a 90% cash-on-delivery market.
Digital Economy
TemTem’s Super-App Gamble: Can Algeria’s Second Ride-Hailing Platform Beat the Odds?
TemTem raised 5.7M to build Algeria second super-app with ride-hailing, delivery, and e-commerce across 21 wilayas. Here is how it competes with Yassir.
Digital Economy
Financial Exclusion in Algeria: Why 65% Unbanked Blocks the Digital Economy
Only 35% of Algerian adults have financial accounts. How cash dominance and 65% exclusion rate block digital economy growth.
Startups
Gifty Algeria: Building Digital Payment Rails in a Cash-First Economy
How Algerian fintech Gifty is building digital payment infrastructure with mobile wallets and agent networks in a country where 90% of transactions use cash.
Skills & Careers
Digital Brain Drain: 29% of Algerian Developers Work Remotely for Foreign Firms
29% of Algerian developers work remotely for foreign companies at 3x local salaries. How this digital brain drain reshapes the tech talent market.
