ight centuries after an engineer of Upper Mesopotamia set down his automata and his water clocks, Morocco files its artificial intelligence under the name of al-Jazari. In Rabat, the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform and Capgemini Morocco signed a memorandum of understanding devoted to AI, inked by delegate minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni and Capgemini’s global operations and delivery director, Karine Brunet. The accord sets out to strengthen AI skills and literacy across public institutions and academia, and to back the start-ups and project teams tied to the Jazari institutes.
The partnership falls under the Morocco Digital 2030 roadmap and the “AI Made in Morocco” drive, whose Jazari network already lines up five institutes, from the smart city to smart energy. From this alliance will come concrete use cases meant to hasten AI’s adoption across the administration; for the Kingdom is betting on sovereign artificial intelligence as a lever of its economy by 2030, and entrusts a twelfth-century scholar with inspiring its name.
Illustration: ‘The Elephant Clock,’ from al-Jazari’s Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1315 copy), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain.
Ministry of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform - Memorandum of understanding signed with Capgemini Morocco for AI development
