EuroMedAI at MEDays Forum 2025: Digital and AI Sovereignty in Morocco

Last week, EuroMedAI took part in the MEDays Forum, where our colleague Houda joined a high-level roundtable on Digital and AI Sovereignty. Here is a brief update on some of the key messages that emerged from this important conversation.

The roundtable gathered several prominent speakers, including the Moroccan Minister of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform, who delivered a strong intervention on Morocco’s ongoing digital transformation and the country’s emerging AI governance strategy. Her contribution helped frame the debate around how countries like Morocco can retain sovereignty over their digital infrastructure, data, and AI systems while still embracing innovation and international cooperation.

Morocco’s Digital Agenda: Three Core Priorities

The Minister highlighted three core priorities for the next phase of Morocco’s digital agenda:

1. Accelerating E-Government

Consolidating secure, interoperable digital public services that make administration simpler and more accessible for citizens.

2. Catching Up on Data Infrastructure

Acknowledging Morocco’s structural delay and the fact that the country currently hosts less than 1% of global data centre capacity – a strategic gap that needs to be addressed to support AI deployment at scale.

3. Ensuring Culturally Compatible and Trustworthy AI Tools

Particularly in public-facing and administrative services, so that citizens can interact with digital systems in ways that respect local languages, values, and social norms.

New Digital Trust and Security Law

The Minister also announced that a new Digital Trust and Security Law (X.0) will be presented to Parliament next month. This law is expected to:

• Reinforce security and trust requirements across digital services
• Provide a clearer regulatory framework for AI uses in public services
• Strengthen overall citizen confidence in Morocco’s digital ecosystem

Key Themes from the Roundtable

Throughout the roundtable, recurring themes included:

• Cybersecurity and protecting critical digital infrastructure
• Sovereignty over strategic data and ensuring national control
• Public trust as the foundation of any digital or AI transition

The conversation made it clear that technical infrastructure, legal safeguards, and citizen engagement must evolve together if we want AI to genuinely serve the public interest.

Relevance for EuroMedAI’s Work

For EuroMedAI, this session was highly relevant to our work on AI governance, capacity-building, and regional cooperation. It reinforced the need for:

• Robust, context-sensitive governance frameworks for AI
• Investment in local skills and infrastructure
• Continued dialogue between governments, technologists, civil society, and citizens across the Euro-Mediterranean region

Looking Forward

We look forward to building on the insights from this discussion and to continuing our contribution to a sovereign, trusted and inclusive AI ecosystem in Morocco and across the wider Mediterranean.

The MEDays Forum once again demonstrated that the Mediterranean region is actively shaping its own path toward responsible AI adoption—one that balances innovation with sovereignty, and technological progress with citizen trust.

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