New 'AI Made in Morocco' strategy aims for $10 billion impact

National initiative aims to add $10 billion to GDP and create 50,000 jobs

Madame Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni, Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform announcing “AI Made in Morocco” on Monday

#Morocco #AIstrategy - Morocco yesterday launched AI Made in Morocco, a national artificial intelligence initiative targeting a 100 billion dirham ($10 billion) contribution to GDP by 2030, the creation of 50,000 AI-related jobs and training of 200,000 graduates in AI skills. Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni announced the strategy at a high-level national event in Rabat, positioning AI as a pillar of national sovereignty, inclusive economic development and regional leadership. The initiative translates outcomes of last year’s National Conference on Artificial Intelligence into an operational strategy aligned with the Maroc IA 2030 roadmap.

SO WHAT? - Rather than framing AI as a narrow technology adoption programme, the Moroccan government is explicitly presenting AI as a strategic state capability supporting digital sovereignty, economic competitiveness, public-sector reform and South-South cooperation. Morocco intends to become a producer rather than merely a consumer of AI technologies. Whilst doing so, it plans to maintain regulatory autonomy and embedding AI into public services, industry and territorial development across the country’s 12 regions through a distributed national architecture.

Here are some key points about this national strategy announcement:

• Morocco has launched AI Made in Morocco, a national artificial intelligence initiative targeting a 100 billion dirham ($10 billion) contribution to GDP by 2030, alongside the creation of 50,000 AI-related jobs and training of 200,000 graduates in AI skills.

• The announcement was made by Minister Delegate to the Head of Government in charge of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni at a high-level national event in Rabat.

• The AI Made in Morocco strategy is structured around three foundational pillars:

  • sovereignty and trust focusing on governance, regulation and infrastructure;

  • innovation and competitiveness centred on human capital, research and industrial development; and

  • impact, adoption and influence focusing on deployment, outcomes and international positioning.

• A central announcement under the AI Made in Morocco banner is the official launch of Jazari Root Racine, the central hub of the Al Jazari Institute network of Centres of Excellence. The national network of AI centres of excellence aim to build sustainable national capacity and ultimately span Morocco’s 12 regions.

• Launched in July 2025, the Jazari Institutes network is designed as a distributed national architecture aligning AI specialisation with regional academic strengths, economic priorities and development needs, with Jazari Root in Rabat operating as a national coordinating hub structured as a public-interest entity.

• The Jazari Institutes are mandated to deliver four primary functions:

  • training and skills development;

  • applied research and co-innovation;

  • shared digital platforms and data infrastructure; and

  • incubation and acceleration of AI solutions.

• Key strategic assets being established by the government in support of the AI Made in Morocco strategy include a National Data Factory to structure and govern public-sector data, a National Software Forge to pool algorithms and government-developed AI components, and sovereign cloud infrastructure including a 50 MW facility and a planned 500 MW renewable-powered data centre in Dakhla.

• The strategy includes development of sovereign national language models addressing under-represented Moroccan and regional languages, alongside dedicated funding mechanisms for startups, deeptech ventures, venture capital and scale-ups to drive endogenous innovation.

• Morocco has launched a joint AI research and development laboratory under a memorandum of understanding between the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform and French generative AI company Mistral AI to support long-term cooperation through joint R&D projects and technical exchanges.

ZOOM OUT - In July 2025 Morocco's digital transition minister announced plans to expand create AI centres of excellence across all 12 regions to bring digital transformation to the country’s less developed and less populated areas. The first the Al Jazari Institute centre of excellence was established in Guelmim-Oued Noun region in southern Morocco, with a second centre confirmed for Nador in the northeast Rif region. The distributed network approach deliberately promotes regional equity and technological empowerment in historically underserved areas, with each regional centre serving as a bridge between national research institutions and local ecosystems. The national network aims to integrate AI into key sectors at a local level including agriculture, tourism and energy, whilst supporting startup incubation and local skills development.

[Written and edited with the assistance of AI]

LINK

• Watch the launch event (YouTube)

Read more news about Morocco’s national AI strategy:

• Morocco to develop responsible national AI platform (Middle East AI News)

• Morocco to create AI CoE network nationwide (Middle East AI News)

• Consortium plans 500MW of AI compute in Morocco (Middle East AI News)