Scope: Algeria Focus
AI & Automation
Algeria’s First Chip: CDTA’s 65nm Semiconductor Milestone and the Road to AI Hardware
Algeria's CDTA unveiled a 1mm² 65nm chip in April 2025. How the Baba Hassen lab targets 1,000 jobs, 25 startups, and sovereign AI hardware capability.
Policy & Regulation
Instruction 06-2025: Algeria’s PSP Framework Gives Fintech Its First Legal Playbook
Algeria's Instruction 06-2025 creates the first PSP licensing framework with 160M DZD minimum capital, three wallet tiers, and agent networks.
AI & Automation
Algeria’s 859 AI Papers: Strong Research, Weak Commercialization Pipeline
Algeria published 859 AI papers in 2024, ranking top five in Africa. With 74 master's programs and 57,702 students, the research-to-startup gap persists.
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.
