{"name":"Applied AI in Mauritania — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Mauritania, 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/mauritania","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":"Mauritania","slug":"mauritania","iso2":"MR","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"counts":{"entries":9,"deployments":5,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":2,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":9},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Mauritania","role":"Public enquiry officer","org":"Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sport and Civil Service (Mauritania)","text":"Mauritania's Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sport and Civil Service introduced Morshed, billed as the country's first AI government assistant. The bilingual assistant answers in French or Arabic on the ministry's job offers, civil-service rules and youth and sport schemes, drawing on its databases and official documents and sourcing every reply.","date":"2026-06-26","source":"https://www.alakhbar.info/6a3e8331878cf30001d20b87/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Mauritania","role":"Employment counsellors","org":"National Employment Agency (ANAPE)","text":"AI job matching now runs inside Mauritania's National Employment Agency (ANAPE), pairing jobseekers' abilities against open vacancies far faster than before. Minister of Youth Empowerment, Employment, Sports and Civil Service Mohamed Abdallah Ould Loly cast this as one piece of a larger campaign to modernise public-sector hiring channels through digital means, alongside branch offices already stretched to eight localities nationwide. The shift signals broader momentum toward AI in public employment services across the nation.","date":"2026-06-04","source":"https://www.thawabit.net/49420-2/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Mauritania","role":"Retail banking customer","org":"Banque Mauritanienne pour le Commerce International (BMCI)","text":"Banque Mauritanienne pour le Commerce International now answers customers around the clock through Aly, an AI virtual assistant banking service on WhatsApp staffed 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It routes account queries, points users to the right department and speeds up access to banking information. BMCI claims a first among Mauritanian lenders, becoming the earliest to weave a smart conversational agent through customer service.","date":"2026-05-11","source":"https://www.atlasinfo.info/node/52440"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Mauritania","role":"Civil-service recruitment officer","org":"Government of Mauritania (National Competitions Committee)","text":"Mauritania held its first entirely digital public recruitment exam, with AI recruitment screening verifying online applicants' data, says Prime Minister El Moctar Ould Djay. Of 1,459 applications, 513 were accepted; facial recognition checked identity, the test ran on camera-fitted tablets and marking was automatic. The National Competitions Committee planned further digital exams for IT engineers and specialist doctors.","date":"2026-03-29","source":"https://saharamedias.net/254596/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Mauritania","org":"First Lady of Mauritania and Ministry of Education","text":"Mauritania's First Lady, Dr Mariem Fadel Dah, unveiled 'Artificial Intelligence in the Service of the Republican School' in Nouakchott, a national push for AI in education grounded in ethics and sovereignty. Teachers gain sharper tech skills, lessons improve, and the nation stakes a claim as a regional model for safe classroom adoption. Public, private and academic groups share one structure to push it forward together.","date":"2026-01-20","source":"https://www.chezvlane.com/La-Premiere-Dame-lance-le-Cadre-national-pour-L-intelligence-artificielle-au-service-de-l-Ecole-Republicaine_a38270.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Transport & Logistics","region":"Mauritania","role":"Traffic enforcement officer","org":"Government of Mauritania","text":"Mauritania now runs an AI road safety system nationwide, catching overloaded lorries and missing seat belts on intercity highways as drivers pass. Engineers from the State Digital Agency and the General Directorate of National Security built the cameras and vision software for the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Administrative Modernization, powering this AI-based traffic violation detection. Each breach triggers an automatic alert and lands in a traceable record, sparing officers from checking vehicles one by one.","date":"2025-12-25","source":"https://www.wearetech.africa/en/fils-uk/news/public-management/mauritania-rolls-out-ai-system-to-detect-traffic-violations-nationwide"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Mauritania","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation and Modernization of Administration","text":"300 Mauritanian civil servants are gaining AI and cybersecurity skills for public administration under a 12-week scheme from the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Modernization of Administration and Germany's GIZ. Nouakchott hosts the programme, branded 'Qualification du fonctionnaire', training staff from multiple sectors in using AI to boost output and safeguard data via the Centre de Formation et d'Échange à Distance — AI training for government workers at scale.","date":"2025-12-15","source":"https://mauriweb.info/node/14959"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Mauritania","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration (MTNIMA)","text":"Mauritania's Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration trained 30-plus officials from the Justice, Transport, Finance and Digital Transformation ministries on an AI-powered low-code platform for government services in Nouakchott. Kitsoft, a Ukrainian GovTech firm, and the ITU taught staff to prototype and deploy eID-linked tools via Liquio — AI-assisted government software development in practice. The work supports a wider ITU-led Global GovStack scheme for independent digital service-building.","date":"2025-09","source":"https://digitalstate.gov.ua/news/govtech/in-just-5-days-mauritania-launches-gov-e-service-with-ukraines-kitsoft"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Mauritania","org":"Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration","text":"Twelve objectives, thirty measures, five priorities: Mauritania's National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024–2029 covers skills, research, data governance, AI ethics, and use across healthcare, education, farming, transport, energy and defence — a national AI policy reaching most industries. The Ministry of Digital Transformation, Innovation and Modernization of Administration leads it; a sub-committee under the Supreme Council for Digitalization oversees it. The OECD AI Policy Navigator lists it active.","date":"2024-09-20","source":"https://oecd.ai/en/dashboards/policy-initiatives/national-artificial-intelligence-strategy-of-mauritania-2024-2029"}]}