Last week, our team was in Algeria. Not because of the World Cup - even though Algeria certainly has some hot prospects playing for BVB, Eintracht, and VfL Wolfsburg - but because of something that is even closer to our hearts:

Four years of successful sports digitization with our partner Sportdata Algeria.

The celebration took place on a scale that even surprised us: more than 10 major television stations broadcast the festivities, some of them live during prime time. Several ministers from the fields of sports, digitalization, education, and innovation attended, as did representatives from the banking sector and industry - as well as the director of the Foreign Trade Center in Algiers, Lisa-Maria Kronreif. Our subsidiaries Sports ID and Sportdata are established players and brands in Africa’s largest country by land area.

A heartfelt congratulations goes to RABEHI SMAIL, Managing Director of Sportdata Algeria, and his team - for their impressive groundwork in the digitalization of sports and the synergies they’ve created for Gov-Tech projects. Smail is already carrying the Sportdata mission to several countries across Africa.

And the visit wasn’t just about celebrating an anniversary - it marked the start of something bigger: Abderrahmane Hammad, President of the Algerian Olympic Committee, welcomed our delegation for in-depth discussions on building a robust digital sports infrastructure - with AI applications designed specifically to support elite athletes. The topic of digital sovereignty is falling on fertile ground in this emerging country with a population soon to reach 50 million.

What RISE does in sports

With Sports ID and Sportdata, we bring together decades of expertise in digital sports technology. The platforms cover the entire lifecycle of a sporting event:

From online registration, competition lists, and timing to video review, live streaming, and TV graphics, all the way to accreditation and cloud-based member management via Sports ID - everything from a single source.

In addition, RISE invests in special projects such as fair boxing scoring and elite sports rehabilitation as drivers of innovation for the broader sports community.

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The numbers speak for themselves

• 50+ world and continental championships per year
• 10,000+ events annually
• 5+ million athletes from 240 countries

A recent example: The 2026 ISF School Football World Cup will take place in October in Suzhou, China—organized digitally by sportdata and Sports ID.

The deepening of our collaboration with the Algerian Olympic and Sports Committee, which has welcomed us with open arms to help drive the digital transformation of Algerian sports, is no coincidence - but rather the result of four years of building trust, expertise, and genuine value on the ground.

Sports is more than just competition. Behind it all lies analysis, scoring, visualization, and an increasing amount of digital technology. And behind all of that is RISE.