# Algeria

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Algeria
- **ISO code**: DZ
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Africa / Northern Africa

## In brief

Algeria has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy (2025) as policy; National AI Council; no AI-specific law. Regulators include Ministère de l'Économie de la Connaissance, des Start-up et des Micro-entreprises. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Overview

Algeria created a National AI Council and adopted a national AI strategy (2025) through the Ministry of Knowledge Economy, Start-ups and Micro-enterprises and the Ministry of Higher Education, with a national AI school opened in 2021; Law 18-07 on personal data applies.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy (2025) as policy; National AI Council; no AI-specific law.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI strategy (2025).

## Regulators

- Ministère de l'Économie de la Connaissance, des Start-up et des Micro-entreprises — AI strategy co-lead — https://www.mecsme.gov.dz/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.
- Use the African Union Continental AI Strategy (2024) as the regional reference where a national instrument is missing.

## Official sources

- Ministère de l'Économie de la Connaissance, des Start-up et des Micro-entreprises — Government of Algeria — https://www.mecsme.gov.dz/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Stratégie nationale de l'intelligence artificielle de l'Algérie** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/algeria-national-ai-strategy-2025
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/algeria-national-ai-strategy-2025.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/algeria
- **Official source**: https://www.mecsme.gov.dz/
- **Source document**: Ministère de l'Économie de la Connaissance, des Start-up et des Micro-entreprises
- **Published by**: Government of Algeria
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: low
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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