{"name":"Applied AI in Morocco — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Morocco, 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/morocco","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":"Morocco","slug":"morocco","iso2":"MA","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"nationalStrategy":{"name":"Maroc IA 2030","year":2026},"counts":{"entries":22,"deployments":14,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":5,"industries":6,"countries":1,"linked":22},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","org":"Presidency of the Public Prosecutor's Office (Morocco)","text":"Morocco's Presidency of the Public Prosecutor's Office held a two-day AI training for prosecutors in Fez with the Geneva Centre for Security Sector Governance (DCAF). Crime-fighting uses were weighed against privacy, data protection, human oversight and accountability. The prosecution judges' AI course belongs to a 2026-2028 strategic plan.","date":"2026-10-19","source":"https://en.hespress.com/147617-fez-hosts-training-session-for-prosecution-judicial-officials-on-ai-human-rights.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","org":"Government of Morocco","text":"Prime Minister Fatima Zahra Mansouri's government, sworn in before King Mohammed VI on 16 October, added a Ministry of Artificial Intelligence, Digital Transition and Administrative Reform under Ahmed Rahou, reshaping Morocco AI policy. Aicha Kellaa assists within the AI portfolio as minister-delegate.","date":"2026-10-16","source":"https://asharq.com/politics/199706/%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A9-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B7%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%86%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%A4%D8%AF%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A3%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A8"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Morocco","role":"Midwife","org":"Ministry of Health and Social Protection (Morocco)","text":"Ministry of Health and Social Protection is adding 40 clinics to AI prenatal ultrasound, reaching 50 across Béni Mellal-Khénifra, Morocco, after a 10-centre trial. That trial followed 416 expectant mothers, trained 27 midwives and had software examine 16,500-plus fetal structures. Women once travelled 90 km on average; machine-read pregnancy scans are two to three times quicker.","date":"2026-10-09","source":"https://ecoactu.ma/echographie-prenatale-assistee-par-ia/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","role":"Civil servant","org":"Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform (Morocco)","text":"Morocco has named the AI in public administration it means to field: Idarati AI, an administrative helper, and a sovereign meeting assistant transcribing Arabic, French and Darija. The Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform says its Maroc IA 2030 roadmap has turned to delivery. Also shown: opening Jazari institutes, a Data Factory, a Software Forge and a sovereign language model covering Darija, Amazigh and Moroccan context, widening artificial intelligence tools for government services.","date":"2026-09-12","source":"https://laquotidienne.ma/article/economie/ia-maroc"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","role":"Police patrol officer","org":"General Directorate of National Security (DGSN, Morocco)","text":"Morocco's national police (DGSN) have deployed two home-designed AI patrol vehicles, Amane and Madar, in Rabat, with Casablanca and Tangier next before wider rollout. The smart patrol cars' 360-degree cameras feed real-time facial recognition and automatic number-plate reading through AI algorithms for instant checks; officers trained first, the DGSN says.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://fr.le7tv.ma/2026/07/21/la-dgsn-deploie-les-vehicules-intelligents-amane-et-madar-dans-les-rues-de-rabat/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Morocco","org":"Visa","text":"Moroccan shoppers rely on AI in online shopping at a rate of 83%, per Visa's survey with Bank Al-Maghrib and Switch Al Maghrib — a pattern of AI-assisted e-commerce seen in gift-hunting (57%), price checks (55%) and reading reviews (42%). Trusting an autonomous AI agent with an actual purchase, though, draws only 23%.","date":"2026-06-18","source":"https://fr.walaw.press/country/coupe_du_monde_2030/QWSP/articles/etude_visa_les_marocains_plebiscitent_l_ia_pour_leurs_achats_numeriques_sans_renoncer_a_la_confiance/GPXPWRXMWGRR"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Morocco","role":"Exam invigilator","org":"Moroccan Ministry of National Education, Pre-School and Sports","text":"Morocco's Ministry of National Education will use AI exam cheating detection devices to find and block suspicious communications in baccalaureate examination centres for the session opening in early June 2026. Named T3-SHIELD and made by Sensthings, a company linked to the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, the signal detectors catch Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and cellular transmissions and other hidden communications, and serve no other purpose. Education-policy academic El Houssine Zahidi warns technology alone falls short without family awareness work.","date":"2026-06","source":"https://thevoice.ma/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A8%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7-2026-%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A-%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B5%D8%AF-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%BA%D8%B4-%D9%88%D8%AE/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","org":"High Authority for Audiovisual Communication (HACA)","text":"Ahead of Morocco's September 2026 legislative elections, regulator HACA (the High Council for Audiovisual Communication) issued Decision No. 50-26, barring broadcasters from airing electoral material generated or altered by artificial intelligence that risks misleading citizens. This Morocco AI regulation still allows synthetic material for teaching or explanatory purposes, provided it carries a permanent, unmistakable label flagging its AI origin under the new AI-generated electoral content rules. The measure sits within wider guidance the regulator has set for election-period media coverage.","date":"2026-06","source":"https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/197370/morocco-bans-ai-generated-election-content.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Morocco","role":"Midwife","org":"Ministry of Health and Social Protection","text":"Morocco's health ministry is piloting AI ultrasound to help staff perform and read scans, mainly for pregnant women in rural areas, health minister Amine Tehraoui told the House of Representatives. The AI-assisted scanning runs at the Aghbala health centre in Béni Mellal province and Moulay Bouazza in Khénifra province, backing midwives and other health professionals, sharpening diagnosis and catching high-risk pregnancies sooner.","date":"2026-06-01","source":"https://aujourdhui.ma/societe/diagnostic-precoce-lintelligence-artificielle-sinvite-dans-les-hopitaux-publics"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Morocco","role":"Examination marker","org":"Ministry of National Education, Preschool and Sports (Morocco)","text":"Morocco's education minister, Mohamed Saad Berrada, told parliament AI exam marking checks will join the baccalaureate's review and audit stages alongside human markers. The aim is fewer errors and automatic re-verification of results.","date":"2026-05-11","source":"https://al3omk.com/1160047.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Legal & Professional Services","region":"Morocco","role":"Lawyer","org":"Westfield Avocats","text":"Rabat business law firm Westfield released Omniscient, an AI contract review platform trained on Moroccan law that checks agreements in under a minute and writes professionally worded amendments. Omniscient's contract-analysis AI pairs retrieval-augmented generation with lawyer-validated knowledge covering the Labour Code, Code of Obligations and Contracts, and company law.","date":"2026-03-30","source":"https://leseco.ma/business/legaltec-avec-omniscient-westfield-veut-industrialiser-lanalyse-contractuelle.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","role":"Tax inspector","org":"General Directorate of Taxes (DGI, Morocco)","text":"Morocco's General Directorate of Taxes announced on 18 February an AI property valuation trial using public property-price comparables in Rabat and Casablanca, built with Moroccan start-up Yakeey. Director general Younes Idrissi Kaitouni reports approval and signed contracts, and the price comparables should end valuations varying by inspector in property and transfer-pricing audits.","date":"2026-02-18","source":"https://fr.le360.ma/economie/controle-fiscal-immobilier-rabat-et-casablanca-pilotes-dun-nouveau-systeme-fonde-sur-lia_OCMJ2K5XF5CY3OYR44PUDRWF3I/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Morocco","role":"Student","org":"Mentora","text":"Tangier now hosts Mentora, Morocco's first AI-powered educational platform, covering learners from primary grades through the baccalaureate. Over 50 specialists spent six years building it around Ministry of National Education material, adding adaptive quizzes and study routes in Arabic, French, English and Moroccan Arabic. It signals a push for curriculum-locked AI tutoring software matched to exam requirements.","date":"2026-02-14","source":"https://al3omk.com/1138697.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","org":"House of Representatives and King of Morocco","text":"Morocco's Organic Law No. 53.25, reworking Organic Law No. 27.11 on the House of Representatives, now lists \"artificial intelligence tools\" as a possible instrument for election crimes. Anyone who deploys such tools to circulate fabricated content or false news aimed at damaging candidates or electoral integrity risks two to five years behind bars under this AI election law. Deputies passed the measure on 1 December 2025, the Constitutional Court validated it on 24 December 2025, and Dahir No. 1.25.70 sealed the electoral integrity legislation into force.","date":"2026-01-16","source":"https://euromedai.org/en/ai-morocco-2026-elections-legal-framework/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","org":"Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform","text":"The Rabat-launched 'Morocco AI 2030' roadmap anchors Morocco AI policy, targeting $10 billion in GDP growth, 50,000 AI jobs and 200,000 trained AI graduates by 2030. Branded 'AI Made in Morocco', the national AI strategy founds the JAZARI research-institute network and plans sovereign data centres and cloud infrastructure.","date":"2026-01-12","source":"https://en.hespress.com/129285-morocco-unveils-national-ai-roadmap-aiming-to-add-10-billion-to-gdp-by-2030.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Morocco","role":"University educators and students","org":"Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences (UM6SS)","text":"Mohammed VI Foundation for Sciences and Health launched Inteligis UM6SS, giving the Mohammed VI University of Health Sciences community access to AI in health education. It offers self-paced modules on artificial intelligence in medical science, joint research spaces, and tools that automate tasks, personalise study plans and produce videos.","date":"2025-12-24","source":"https://ecoactu.ma/inteligis-um6ss-une-plateforme-dediee-a-lusage-responsable-de-lia-a-luniversite-mohammed-vi-des-sciences-et-de-la-sante/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Retail & Consumer","region":"Morocco","role":"Retail merchandiser","org":"Carrefour LabelVie (LabelVie Group)","text":"Carrefour LabelVie now runs the LEAFIO Shelf Efficiency system to handle AI planogram management across 180 stores in Morocco, spanning four formats from convenience shops to hypermarkets. Store teams execute layouts on mobile tools instead of building shelf plans by hand, since the platform generates planograms automatically and drives merchandising through data. The rollout, described as complete, is being extended across the retailer's full multi-format network through automated shelf planning.","date":"2025-12","source":"https://www.leafio.ai/news/carrefour-labelvie-implements-leafio/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Morocco","role":"Students","org":"Mohammed V University","text":"Mohammed V University in Rabat built ELOGHA-SUP, Morocco's first homegrown AI language-learning platform, spanning five languages across six clusters nationwide. Chatbot-driven AI tools power the interactive study experience. It marks a milestone for domestic AI-driven language education software.","date":"2025-12-01","source":"https://en.hespress.com/126594-morocco-launches-inclusive-language-learning-platform-elogha-sup-supporting-sign-language-and-braille.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Finance & Insurance","region":"Morocco","role":"Insurance customer service agent","org":"AtlantaSanad Assurance","text":"AtlantaSanad Assurance rolls out Assia, Morocco's first AI insurance assistant, staffing the insurer's site 24/7 to resolve queries instantly. Claimants get guidance on car accidents and the friendly accident report, a list of needed paperwork, and notes on contract guarantees and coverage caps. Assia covers subscriptions, claims handling and buybacks too, marking Morocco's debut round-the-clock virtual insurance assistant.","date":"2025-09-17","source":"https://beta.lematin.ma/economie/atlantasanad-devoile-assia-premiere-assistante-ia-dediee-a-lassurance/302166"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","org":"Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform","text":"An AI supervisors training programme Morocco has launched covers 770 recruits from Guelmim, Tadla, Agadir and other regions, who will run AI awareness sessions for young people at youth centres nationwide. Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni's Ministry of Digital Transition partners with the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University for balanced coverage.","date":"2025-06-30","source":"https://madar21.com/354603.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","role":"Citizen","org":"Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication","text":"Morocco is rolling out an AI chatbot government portal feature on the redesigned MAROC.MA site, Minister Mehdi Bensaid told parliament. It aims to simplify access to official records and smooth the experience for every visitor, acting as an AI-powered virtual assistant for public services.","date":"2025-03-25","source":"https://al3omk.com/1053266.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Morocco","org":"National Commission for the Control of Personal Data Protection (CNDP)","text":"Morocco's CNDP ruled that AI and personal data protection falls under existing Law 09-08. No new legislation is needed: the same safeguards already cover automated processing. This guidance on AI data privacy extends current duties to AI tools.","date":"2025-03-18","source":"https://www.cndp.ma/ia-et-protection-des-donnees-a-caractere-personnel/"}]}