{"name":"Applied AI in Algeria — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Algeria, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/algeria","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Algeria","slug":"algeria","iso2":"DZ","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"counts":{"entries":8,"deployments":3,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":4,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":8},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Algeria","role":"Tax officer","org":"Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Algeria)","text":"Algeria will move to AI tax collection, Minister Kamel Baddari of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research told the opening inter-ministerial session. A second Algerian platform, spanning many sectors, should push the technology further into public services. Five committees now own delivery, and the automated tax administration work sits beneath a wider goal of 50,000 trained specialists by 2030.","date":"2026-09-08","source":"https://www.visionsurlalgerie.com/blog/2026/09/08/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A6%D8%B1-%D8%A5%D8%B7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%82-%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1-%D8%AA%D9%86%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B0-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Algeria","role":"University guidance counsellor","org":"Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (Algeria)","text":"Algeria's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research has opened an AI university orientation assistant for 2026 baccalaureate holders, alongside a digital edition of its ministerial orientation circular. According to the ministry's notice, the orientation chatbot replies instantly on every step of choosing a course and enrolling.","date":"2026-07-09","source":"https://www.aps.dz/fr/algerie/education-et-technologie/mrdpiw05-mise-en-ligne-de-la-circulaire-ministerielle-numerique-et-de-l-assistant-ia-d-orientation"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Algeria","org":"Council of Ministers of Algeria","text":"Algeria's Council of Ministers, under Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb, has approved a national AI strategy for 2025-2030 spanning six pillars: research, skills, infrastructure spending, ecosystem growth, oversight rules, and priority fields such as health, energy and farming, plus sovereign AI models. This Algeria AI strategy, an artificial intelligence roadmap for Algeria, draws on 74 master's programmes at 52 universities training 57,000 computer science students.","date":"2026-05-25","source":"https://algeriatech.news/algeria-ai-strategy-council-ministers-validation-dzair-digital-services-2026/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Algeria","org":"Ministry of Vocational Training and Education / Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Startups and Micro-Enterprises","text":"Algeria's Ministry of Vocational Training and Education and the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Startups and Micro-Enterprises have started an AI training programme for ICT specialists at the El Rahmania National Specialized Vocational Training Institute in Algiers, targeting 500,000 workers by 2030 under this artificial intelligence skills scheme for technology workers. Instruction runs eight weeks, then four weeks building startup projects, across a 12-week course; instructor coaching began 15 January 2026. The effort ties to a wider digital strategy targeting artificial intelligence for 7% of GDP by 2027.","date":"2026-04-26","source":"https://www.ecofinagency.com/news-digital/2704-55026-algeria-launches-national-ai-training-program-to-build-digital-skills"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Algeria","org":"National People's Assembly deputies of Algeria","text":"Algeria AI regulation has reached parliament: APN deputies filed the country's first AI legislative proposal, awaiting Bureau review. The bill would govern AI development and use to protect citizens and spur innovation, widen the ANPDP's oversight to AI systems, and extend privacy rules to AI-specific risks like profiling and automated decision-making, plus a legal basis for public-sector AI procurement.","date":"2026-04-20","source":"https://algeriatech.news/algeria-ai-legislative-proposal-apn-deputies-2026/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Manufacturing, Energy & Resources","region":"Algeria","role":"Drilling rig operator","org":"Sonatrach","text":"Rig-mounted cameras and live telemonitoring now feed Sonatrach's new ENTP EYES / Real Time Decision Support Center at Hassi Messaoud, an AI-powered drilling monitoring hub the Algerian state oil and gas firm has opened to track performance and streamline resource use during drilling and prospecting. The facility signals a broader turn toward AI in oil and gas decision-making, giving engineers a continuous operational picture instead of periodic reports.","date":"2025-12","source":"https://www.jeune-independant.net/daoudi-a-lentp-de-hassi-messaoud-lia-pour-optimiser-les-operations-de-forage/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Algeria","org":"Government of Algeria","text":"Algeria's Law No. 25-11 narrows the automated-decision rule in the country's data protection framework, Loi 18-07, under Algeria AI regulation: the blanket ban on decisions made solely by automated processing now covers only criminal-justice bodies. It adds a formal definition of 'profilage' and requires a Data Protection Officer, tightening algorithmic decision-making oversight in criminal justice while easing it elsewhere.","date":"2025-07-24","source":"https://ailawradar.com/jurisdictions/algeria"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Algeria","org":"Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research; Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Start-ups and Micro-enterprises","text":"Under Algeria AI policy, Minister Kamel Baddari's Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research joined Minister Yacine El-Mahdi Walid's Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Start-ups and Micro-enterprises to launch the Scientific Council for Artificial Intelligence (Conseil scientifique de l'intelligence artificielle), also known as the National AI Council. Professor Merouane Debbah leads 28 specialists from universities, business and public bodies. Tasks ahead: shape a national AI development strategy, gauge resources, refresh curricula, build partnerships.","date":"2023-06-26","source":"https://www.arabnews.fr/monde-arabe/algerie-dix-sept-maisons-dediees-a-lintelligence-artificielle-dans-les-universites-412261"}]}