Morocco scores 2.38 out of 4 on the Africa AI Governance Index 2026, in the Developing tier at rank 4 of 54. The eight pillar scores are fellow-assigned values from the Regional Summary, and indicators are not scored. Strategy and Vision is the strongest pillar at 3.00 and Implementation and Impact is the weakest at 1.70. The composite sits above the North Africa mean of 1.57 and the Africa mean of 1.33. Desk research in October 2026, which fellows have not verified and which did not inform the scores, found a ministerial AI roadmap launched on 12 January 2026, a 2009 data protection law with an operating authority, AI provisions in 2026 election law and no enacted AI law.
P1Strategy & Vision3.00 / 4Established
Strategy and Vision carries a fellow-assigned score of 3.00, in the Established tier. Desk research in October 2026 found that Digital Transition Minister Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni launched the Maroc IA 2030 roadmap on 12 January 2026, and that on 8 September 2026 the ministry presented the strategy as moving into implementation through the JAZARI Institutes (S1.1). No decree or Government Council approval was found, so adoption is ministerial (S1.2). The roadmap sets 2030 targets of MAD 100 bn in GDP value added, 50,000 jobs and 200,000 trained AI talents (S1.7). No AI-specific budget line was disclosed (S1.4). Alignment with the African Union Continental AI Strategy, a monitoring framework and a review mechanism were not determined (S1.5, S1.9, S1.10).
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P2Governance & Regulation2.10 / 4Developing
Governance and Regulation carries a fellow-assigned score of 2.10, in the Developing tier. Desk research in October 2026 found that Law No. 09-08, enacted in 2009, created the independent data protection authority CNDP (G2.2). On 19 March 2025 the CNDP began work on a deliberation on AI processing of personal data (G2.3). As of 4 November 2025 the Digital X.0 framework law was under review by the General Secretariat of the Government, and neither it nor a private AI bill had been enacted (G2.1). Law No. 52-21 approved the Malabo Convention in 2022, but the African Union status list of 2 February 2026 records no signature, ratification or deposit (G2.7). No dedicated AI governance body was located (G2.5).
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P3Infrastructure & Data2.80 / 4Developing
Infrastructure and Data carries a fellow-assigned score of 2.80, in the Developing tier. Desk research in October 2026 found 15 data centre facilities listed by Data Center Map (I3.1) and 5 landing points carrying 6 international cable systems listed by TeleGeography (I3.3). Oracle lists its Morocco West region in Casablanca as live (I3.5). The TOP500 list of June 2026 ranks the Toubkal system at UM6P's African Supercomputing Centre at number 409 (I3.6). The ministry signed with Vertiv on 27 July 2026 for a 50 MW sovereign data centre in Rabat (I3.10). Law No. 09-08 requires CNDP authorisation before any transfer abroad (I3.8). Live data centre capacity, international bandwidth and foreign AI surveillance spending were not determined (I3.2, I3.4, I3.9).
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P4Human Capital2.40 / 4Developing
Human Capital carries a fellow-assigned score of 2.40, in the Developing tier. Desk research in October 2026 found 1540 AI scholarly publications for Morocco in 2024, against 1331 in 2023, in the CSET Country Activity Tracker (H4.4). The JobInTech programme aims to train 15,000 digital talents by 2026 (H4.7). Translation tools cover Modern Standard Arabic, Moroccan Arabic and Central Atlas Tamazight, while Tachelhit and Tarifit are not listed separately (H4.10). Six indicators were not determined: AI researchers per million (H4.1), AI skills among data protection staff (H4.2), a count of university AI programmes (H4.3), AI patent filings (H4.5), school computer science (H4.6) and a labour transition framework (H4.8). No informal economy assessment was found (H4.9).
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P5Innovation & Ecosystem2.40 / 4Developing
Innovation and Ecosystem carries a fellow-assigned score of 2.40, in the Developing tier. Desk research in October 2026 found 29 companies offering AI services in the TechBehemoths directory, a lower bound (N5.1). The Partech Africa 2025 report records US$79M in 2025 tech equity funding across 26 deals, a proxy with no AI-specific figure (N5.2). The research records a confirmed absence for standards body AI competency: Morocco is on neither member list of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 (N5.8). In January 2026 the digital ministry and Mistral AI signed a memorandum creating a research lab (N5.10). An AI sandbox, domestic AI procurement rules, safety evaluation capacity and a risk assessment framework in force were not determined (N5.4, N5.5, N5.6, N5.9).
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P6Ethics & Inclusion2.00 / 4Developing
Ethics and Inclusion carries a fellow-assigned score of 2.00, in the Developing tier. Desk research in October 2026 found that Article 11 of Law 09-08 bars decisions with legal effects taken solely on automated profiling, and that Article 28 lets the CNDP receive complaints (E6.4). No AI-specific transparency requirement or complaint channel was found (E6.3). Morocco signed the Paris AI Action Summit statement on 11 February 2025 and endorsed the New Delhi Declaration on 20 February 2026 (E6.7). The research did not determine the status of impact assessment (E6.1), bias audits (E6.2), civil society engagement (E6.8) or youth participation (E6.10). GIRAI 2026 records no impact-assessment framework and scores Morocco 0 on government mechanisms for civil society inclusion.
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P7Regional Integration2.20 / 4Developing
Regional Integration carries a fellow-assigned score of 2.20, in the Developing tier. Desk research in October 2026 found Morocco on the official signatory list of the Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, done at Kigali on 4 April 2025 (R7.2). Organic Law 53.25 governed the 23 September 2026 legislative elections and penalises electoral offences committed through AI tools (R7.5). HACA Decision 50-26 of June 2026 bars broadcast of misleading AI-generated electoral content unless labelled (R7.6, R7.8). The National Human Rights Council found that 116 of 421 monitored items, or 27.5%, were AI-generated or AI-modified, with no prosecutions reported as of 5 October 2026 (R7.7). Regional coordination, cross-border AI agreements and Geneva Dialogue participation were not determined (R7.3, R7.4, R7.9).
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P8Implementation & Impact1.70 / 4Emerging
Implementation and Impact carries a fellow-assigned score of 1.70, in the Emerging tier. Desk research in October 2026 found evidence on 2 of 10 indicators. Education Minister Mohamed Saad Berrada called for an Arab strategy on AI in education on 7 January 2025, and no adopted national guidance was identified (M8.8). The CNDP imposed a moratorium on authorising facial recognition systems from 2 September 2019 and extended it to 31 December 2020 (M8.9). The other eight indicators were not determined. No budget figure (M8.1), health AI regulation (M8.2), government registry of AI systems (M8.4), progress report (M8.5) or Bank Al-Maghrib guidance specific to AI (M8.7) was located. No formal adoption of World Health Organization guidance was found (M8.10).
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