In order to join their efforts and expose their challenges as a group, about thirty Algerian companies from the information, communication and technology industry came together as a cluster. In fact, a convention was signed to this effect on 17 November 2015 with the National Agency for the Promotion of Technologic Parks (ANPT in French).

The executives who signed the convention include ANPT’s interim director general, Radia Belberkani, and the president of ICT operators association, Ahmed Mehdi Omarouayache.

According to Ahmed Mehdi Omarouayache, the “idea for the establishment of this cluster emerged from a consensus regrouping various actors of this sector who felt the need to come together and develop Algeria’s digital economy, as well as to become a significant institution”. The ICT cluster includes 32 groups of which some state-owned companies such as Algérie Telecom, Mobilis and some private such as Condor, and some start-ups active in the web, software development, geo-localization and electronic production sectors.

The ICT cluster joins the already existing beverage, precision engineering, dates, plastics, clusters. It is to be hosted in Sidi-Abdellah’s Cyberpark buildings. “We encourage the establishment of every ecosystem aiming at developing ICT in Algeria such as incubators and clusters, and are willing to provide them with the appropriate professional facilities,” Radia Belberkani said.