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📝 Main Research Paper
A Phased Implementation Framework for the Moroccan Digital–Physical Factory
Samir Baladi · June 2026 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20496255
From regional cloud hosting to national knowledge sovereignty — a five-layer pyramid framework: infrastructure, processing, semantic representation, cultural identity, and governance.
Oracle Cloud Casablanca — first hyperscaler in North Africa ($140M). UM6P Toubkal — 3.16 Petaflops, TOP500 #356. Cloud First Roadmap 2025–2030. JAZARI AI Centers of Excellence (Rabat Jan 2026).
📋 Abstract
Morocco's pursuit of digital and knowledge sovereignty requires a foundational pyramid of capacities — physical infrastructure, processing, semantic representation, cultural identity, and governance — that cannot be built simultaneously without prohibitive capital expenditure. This paper proposes a phased, low-capital-first implementation pathway for the Moroccan Digital–Physical Factory, beginning with regionally hosted or Morocco-resident cloud computing rather than nationally owned data-center construction, and deferring sovereign physical infrastructure to a later maturation stage. The framework is grounded in Morocco's existing institutional landscape, including the national high-performance computing capacity operated by Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), the government's 2025–2030 "Cloud First" roadmap under the Digital Morocco 2030 strategy, and emerging sovereign data-center investment such as the EcoDar facility in Dakhla.
Keywords: digital sovereignty, cloud-first policy, Morocco, Darija natural language processing, knowledge infrastructure, sovereign AI, regional cloud hosting.
🏛️ Key Institutional Data (2026)
📂 Additional Reports
📊 Linguistic Corpora Report
Description of Darija, legal, and administrative text corpora used in the project.
View Details →🤖 Semantic Models Report
Results of fine-tuning open-weight language models on Moroccan-specific corpora.
View Details →☁️ Cloud Infrastructure Assessment
Analysis of regional cloud providers and in-country commercial cloud regions (Oracle Casablanca/Settat).
View Details →🏛️ Institutional Partnerships
Engagement strategy with UM6P, ANRT, JAZARI Centers, and Ministry of Digital Transition.
View Details →📚 References
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- Baladi, S. (2026). A Phased Implementation Framework for the Moroccan Digital–Physical Factory. Zenodo. 10.5281/zenodo.20496255