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An audio introduction to OIA, its vision, and its role as a reference platform on artificial intelligence.
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OIA INTERNATIONAL
A reference platform for sovereign, inclusive, and systemic AI, dedicated to reflection, publishing, foresight, and scientific cooperation in Morocco, Africa, and across the world.
OIA INTERNATIONAL promotes a Moroccan, African, and international approach to AI grounded in digital sovereignty, responsibility, scientific cooperation, and inclusion.
Promote AI shaped by Morocco’s needs, languages, and priorities.
Produce analyses, publications, and tools useful to decision-makers, researchers, and citizens.
Project Morocco into African, Euro-Mediterranean, and global AI networks while strengthening its scientific and institutional visibility.
Draw from foreign experiences, especially those of middle powers, to identify transferable models suited to the Moroccan context.
OIA is organized around a readable governance model combining strategic steering, scientific reflection, network animation, and partnership openness.
The body responsible for steering, operational decisions, and annual priority follow-up for the Observatory.
A body for reflection, strategic guidance, intellectual validation, and content quality assurance.
A network of competencies mobilized for projects, analysis, events, and sector-specific contributions.
OIA is presented as an open platform with academic, professional, and institutional ambitions, with its legal status to be clarified as it consolidates.
OIA highlights several priority workstreams.
Join OIA INTERNATIONAL as a committed member in the development of sovereign, inclusive, and systemic AI.
Take part in exchanges, publications, events, and projects across the network.
Researchers, doctoral candidates, experts, executives, institutions, and emerging talents.
Membership may be academic, institutional, expert-based, or partner-based.
Dr Az-Eddine Bennani is a scholar, author, and expert in strategy, digital transformation, and AI governance. He promotes a systemic vision of AI rooted in the Moroccan context and open to the world.
OIA stands at the crossroads of Morocco, Africa, Europe, and global research and innovation networks in artificial intelligence.
The scientific committee brings together academic and professional profiles engaged in artificial intelligence, health, economics, regulation, smart cities, and management.
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Associated experts strengthen the OIA ecosystem through contributions in strategy, transformation, innovation, and project support.
This section illustrates the geostrategic positioning of Morocco and OIA within major international AI networks.
Academic, institutional, and professional partners may support OIA in the form that suits them best: scientific, technical, financial, logistical, or in-kind.
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Universities, schools, laboratories and research centers.
Public institutions, local authorities and support bodies.
Companies, startups, firms and field actors.
Cooperation across Africa, Europe, India and beyond.
Real logos can be added progressively as partnerships are formally validated.
Academic cooperation, co-hosted events, research, and training.
Support for innovation, use cases, experience sharing, and sponsorship.
Strategic support, outreach, expertise, and public partnerships.
Development of international contacts and partnerships, notably toward Bangalore in India, in a logic of cross-learning and cooperation.
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OIA aims to federate an open ecosystem in which each actor freely chooses its mode of contribution and level of engagement.
The project encourages Morocco–Africa–Europe cooperation and bridges with international research, innovation, and AI regulation networks.
The site highlights meetings, conferences, AI cafés, workshops and dialogues focused on governance, use cases and the diffusion of artificial intelligence.
Dates: 25–26 March 2026
Location: Higher Institute of Health Sciences (ISSS), Hassan First University of Settat, Morocco
Theme: “Innovate, Heal, Protect: Rethinking Health in the Era of Global Convergences”
Topics: Artificial intelligence, digital transformation and cybersecurity in health; ethics, governance, sovereignty and health policies; public health, environment and the One Health approach; biomedical technology and IoT; clinical and pharmaceutical sciences; neurosciences and humanities; pedagogical innovation in health sciences; medical physics and radiation protection.
Highlights: +3 workshops • Scopus indexed conference • Settat, Morocco.
A dedicated podcast section for the Observatory to share analyses, interviews, summaries and conversations in French, English, Spanish and Arabic. Validated audio capsules are progressively published in this space.
Episode 1 availableAn audio introduction to OIA, its vision, and its role as a reference platform on artificial intelligence.
International conversations and strategic explainers for a wider global audience.
Coming soonSpanish-language dissemination of OIA reflections on AI, governance and cooperation.
Coming soonAudio content in Arabic on artificial intelligence, governance and digital sovereignty.
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Dr Az-Eddine Bennani’s books play a structuring role in OIA’s intellectual identity, while being part of a broader ecosystem of contributions, conference proceedings, and partner publications.
Books, op-eds, and reference analyses on AI, digital sovereignty, Morocco, and the Wald Maâlam saga.
Progressive integration of contributions from events such as AIATSI and other academic or professional gatherings.
Promotion of books, interviews, articles, and resources proposed by Observatory members and partners.
Ask a question to be guided toward books, the scientific committee, experts, the world map, publications, or contact details.
This section highlights both Dr Az-Eddine Bennani’s publications and OIA’s gradual opening to a wider range of validated contributions.
Books, articles, and op-eds that structure OIA’s editorial line and major interpretive frameworks.
View on AmazonAccess published analyses on AI, Morocco, governance, sovereignty, and digital transformation.
View ODJ articlesArticles, interviews, proceedings, strategic notes, and books proposed by members after editorial and scientific validation.
Submit a contributionMembers of the network may propose articles, interviews, notes, books, proceedings, or existing resources related to artificial intelligence, subject to editorial and scientific validation.
Articles, op-eds, interviews, conference proceedings, book chapters, strategic notes, and books.
Each contribution is reviewed before publication to ensure quality, consistency, and platform credibility.
Proposals may be sent through the partner form or by direct contact with the OIA team.
For academic, editorial, institutional, or partnership inquiries, use the contact details below.
azeddinebennani@me.com
+33 6 15 07 94 23
Morocco
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