digital sovereignty
Policy & Regulation
Algeria’s Social Media Red Lines Bill: A Compliance Guide for Platforms Operating in the Market
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s National People’s Assembly is reviewing a bill requiring TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram to establish local...
Infrastructure & Cloud
Algeria’s Fiber Optic Manufacturing Leap: From Importer to Sovereign Producer
⚡ Key Takeaways Presidential Decrees 26-104 and 26-105 created EPIC-EC (optical fiber and cable manufacturing in Réghaïa) and EPIC-EPMTIC (ICT...
Infrastructure & Cloud
Algeria’s Sovereign Telecom Roadmap: Subsea Capacity Is Becoming Economic Policy
⚡ Key Takeaways Two new submarine cables, Medusa (up to 480 Tbps system capacity across 24 fibre pairs) and Africa-1...
Infrastructure & Cloud
Inside the Algiers Digital Sovereignty Summit: What It Means for Local Cloud
⚡ Key Takeaways Global Africa Tech 2026 ran in Algiers from March 28-30 as the first pan-African digital sovereignty summit,...
Policy & Regulation
Algeria’s Digital Platform Bill: Joining Africa’s New Data Localization Wave
⚡ Key Takeaways A 2026 draft bill by MP Bouhali Abdelbasset would require major platforms in Algeria to open local...
Policy & Regulation
Algeria’s NGSO Satellite Tender: How Two New Licenses Open the Door for Sovereign Connectivity
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria’s ARPCE launched Competitive Tender No. 01/2026 on 9 April 2026 to award two licenses for non-geostationary...
AI & Automation
Inside Oran’s New AI Supercomputing Center: GPU Clusters for Algerian Researchers and Startups
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria broke ground on its first AI-dedicated GPU compute center in Oran’s Akid Lotfi district on March...
Infrastructure & Cloud
Algeria’s First AI Supercomputing Center in Oran
Algeria breaks ground on its first AI-dedicated supercomputing center in Oran with GPU clusters for research, startups, and enterprise AI development.
Policy & Regulation
Algeria Leads Africa’s Digital Sovereignty Push: Data Localization and Regulatory Harmonization
⚡ Key Takeaways Bottom Line: Algeria has built Africa’s most layered data sovereignty framework — cloud hosting mandates, GDPR-aligned data...
Policy & Regulation
The Algiers Declaration: Africa’s 14-Article Telecom Sovereignty Roadmap
⚡ Key Takeaways More than 50 African ministers adopted the Algiers Declaration on Telecommunications Sovereignty at Global Africa Tech 2026,...
Policy & Regulation
Algeria and the 50in5 Pledge: Building Digital Public Infrastructure for Sovereignty
⚡ Key Takeaways Algeria formally joined the UNDP-backed 50in5 campaign on April 2, 2026, committing to build interoperable digital public...
