Mauritania advances digital transformation with national standards workshop
Date: 2026-03-26
By: Nana Appiah Acquaye
Mauritania’s
Minister of Digital Transformation and Modernization of the Administration,
Ahmed Salem Ould Bede, has inaugurated a three-day technical workshop in
Nouakchott focused on standardizing the architecture of public digital
services. The event brought together public and private sector actors, along
with national and international experts.
The
workshop is part of efforts to establish a unified reference framework to
ensure the quality, coherence, and interoperability of digital public services
across the country. Minister Ould Bede highlighted that the absence of common
standards contributes to system fragmentation, additional costs, and reduced
effectiveness of public services, while unified standards optimize resources
and improve user experience.
Participants
reviewed a technical study and an operational implementation mechanism,
emphasizing stakeholder engagement in consolidating the national normative
framework.
The
initiative is supported by the Federal Republic of Germany through the German
Technical Cooperation (GIZ) and the Digital-Y project, reflecting ongoing
international collaboration in Mauritania’s digital reform agenda.
