• Algeria launches expert digitalization committee to guide national tech policies
• Committee supports “Digital Algeria 2030” goals with expert recommendations
• Strategy targets 500,000 ICT jobs, 20% GDP from digital economy
  

The Algerian government, on Oct. 23, 2025, officially launched the Scientific and Technical Committee of the High Commission for Digitalization (CSTHCN) in Algiers. The new advisory body will help guide the country’s national digital policies.

Meriem Benmouloud, the High Commissioner for Digitalization, hosted the ceremony and described the committee as a new milestone in Algeria’s digital transformation, part of the structured process leading to the “Digital Algeria 2030” vision.

The 15-member committee, including three experts from the Algerian diaspora, brings together specialists in information technology, artificial intelligence, mathematics, economics, and financial systems. Its main tasks include providing recommendations, reviewing draft legislation and regulations on digitalization, and conducting research to anticipate technological trends and their economic impacts.

The committee’s creation marks the final step in establishing the High Commission for Digitalization, which was set up in 2023 to spearhead the nation’s digital transformation.

Two years later, the “Digital Algeria 2030” strategy has been finalized and is expected to begin implementation soon. The plan aims to train 500,000 ICT specialists, connect all public institutions, and raise the digital economy’s contribution to 20% of GDP by 2030.

Digital technology is playing an increasingly central role in Algeria’s economy. While the potential is significant, analysts point to a gap between major investments and tangible returns, highlighting the need for stronger oversight.

Through this committee, Algeria aims to accelerate the implementation of its digital policies, improve public service efficiency, promote digital inclusion, and unlock greater economic value from the sector.

Samira Njoya

Les autorités tanzaniennes misent sur l’intégration des TIC pour accélérer le développement socio-économique. Cette transformation numérique touche à tous les secteurs, dont l’éducation.

Lors d’une rencontre avec le Tanzania Editors Forum à Dar es Salaam, le mardi 21 octobre, le vice-recteur de l’Université de Dar es Salaam (UDSM), William A. L. Anangisye, a présenté le programme « Higher Education for Economic Transformation » (HEET) comme une nouvelle étape pour l’enseignement supérieur. Déjà mis en œuvre à plus de 80 %, le HEET fait de la digitalisation des cursus universitaires un levier stratégique de compétitivité.

Le projet a franchi une étape majeure avec la mise en ligne de plus de 1000 cours numériques, accessibles à 39 000 étudiants sur les campus de Dar es Salaam, Lindi, Kagera et Zanzibar. Cette offre repose sur une infrastructure à très haut débit de 10 Gbps, installée pour soutenir les plateformes d’apprentissage hybrides et renforcer les capacités d’enseignement à distance. Le coordinateur adjoint du programme, Liberato Haule, a expliqué que cette infrastructure modernise les espaces d’apprentissage et renforce les partenariats entre universités et entreprises.

Le HEET, soutenu par des financements publics et privés, vise à rapprocher universités et entreprises dans le développement de contenus pédagogiques axés sur les compétences numériques, l’ingénierie et l’innovation. Le président du Tanzania Editors Forum, Deodatus Balile, a salué une initiative qui « établit une référence nationale en matière de transformation éducative ».

Ce tournant intervient alors que la Banque mondiale signale que seulement 9 % des jeunes accèdent à l’enseignement supérieur en Afrique. En dotant ses universités d’outils technologiques performants, la Tanzanie espère devenir un pôle régional de formation et d’innovation, visant à articuler durablement enseignement, emploi et industrie.

Félicien Houindo Lokossou (Agence Ecofin)

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• Net is a new Ivorian job platform helping young people access employment.

• The startup uses AI-based matching to link candidates with suitable opportunities.

• Founder Sébastien Kouassi is a two-time national award winner for digital innovation.

Ivorian software engineer and entrepreneur Sébastien N’Goran Kouassi is the founder of EmploiRapide.Net, a digital startup dedicated to improving youth employability in West Africa.

Launched in April 2025, EmploiRapide.Net offers an online job platform designed to make access to the labor market easier. It aggregates and centralizes thousands of job offers from both local and international companies.

The platform features an intelligent search engine that matches users with opportunities aligned with their skills, experience, and location. Candidates can upload their CVs and apply directly to suitable positions. Less than a month after launch, the site had already recorded more than 30,000 job searches.

In 2018, Kouassi created Mwaou, a web and mobile app for reconnecting with former classmates, followed in 2021 by mjChrist, a site for sharing Christian testimonies. He holds a master’s degree in computer systems and software engineering from the African School of Information and Communication Technologies (ESATIC) in Côte d’Ivoire, earned in 2021.

Alongside his entrepreneurial ventures, Kouassi has worked with several companies and institutions. In 2021, after an internship as a web developer at Inetum Côte d’Ivoire, he became a vTiger CRM consultant for the National Investment Bank (BNI) and SNEDAI.

In 2023, he worked as a freelance web developer for HST Protection, then as a software engineer at Y3 Audit & Conseils and Bridge Bank Group Côte d’Ivoire. Between 2024 and 2025, he served as a developer and automation tester at the Côte d’Ivoire Single Window for Foreign Trade (GUCE-CI).

His commitment to technological innovation has earned him recognition twice, as he received the second National Excellence Award for Best Young Digital Innovation Project in both 2023 and 2024.

• Telecom engineer Zara Ahmed Sedick becomes the first woman to head Chad’s AI Directorate.

• The new body was created as part of the digital ministry’s recent restructuring.

• Her career includes roles at Ericsson, Huawei, and the Chadian presidency.

On October 24, the Chadian Ministry of Posts and Digital Economy officially appointed telecommunications engineer Zara Ahmed Sedick as head of the newly created Directorate General of Artificial Intelligence (DGIA).

The establishment of the DGIA is part of the ministry’s recent restructuring led by Minister Boukar Michel. According to a statement from the ministry, it “also reflects the political commitment of the President of the Republic, Head of State, Marshal Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, as outlined in his five-year program.”

Zara Ahmed Sedick, the first woman to lead the DGIA, holds a degree in telecommunications engineering from the École Supérieure Privée d’Ingénierie et des Technologies (ESPRIT) in Tunisia and a specialized certificate in mobile radio network engineering from Paris Telecom.

She joined the Ministry of Posts and Digital Economy in 2024 as director of technology monitoring. Her professional career began in 2011 at Ericsson in Chad as a network optimization engineer. In 2015, she joined Huawei in the same country as a Node Package Manager (NPM) engineer.

In 2019, she was appointed technical adviser on Posts and Information and Communication Technologies at the Presidency of the Republic of Chad. The following year, she became director of control and inspection at the Chadian Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts, a position she held until 2024.

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• Morocco, OpenAI discuss partnership to boost national AI strategy
• Talks focus on research, innovation, and localized AI ecosystem
• Follows Mistral AI deal to build skills, startups, and safeguards

The Moroccan government is exploring a major collaboration with the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI. The potential partnership was the central topic of discussion during a meeting between Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni, Morocco’s Minister of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, and executives from the San Francisco-based firm. The meeting took place on the sidelines of the 80th U.N. General Assembly.

According to a ministry statement published on Facebook on Thursday, Sept. 25, the discussions with OpenAI focused on cooperation in research and innovation and developing an artificial intelligence ecosystem tailored to the unique characteristics of Moroccan society.

The Moroccan government has made AI a core pillar of its national digital transformation efforts, which are designed to accelerate social and economic growth. Through its "Digital Morocco 2030" strategy, the government aims to leverage AI's potential to quickly digitize public and private services, attract international tech players, support local startups, and develop necessary skills and infrastructure. The strategy also focuses on consolidating data registries, deploying use cases to improve services, and conducting multi-disciplinary reviews of the societal, legal, and economic implications of AI.

This push to build its AI capacity follows a deal signed on Sept. 12 between the ministry and French AI company Mistral AI. That memorandum of understanding aims to strengthen local AI skills through training, applied research, and knowledge transfer. It also seeks to stimulate the national ecosystem by promoting the growth of startups and industrial projects based on AI solutions tailored to Moroccan business needs. Finally, the Mistral partnership commits to promoting the ethical and inclusive use of AI, ensuring data protection and public trust.

Isaac K. Kassouwi