Morocco’s Minister of Digital Transition and Administration Reform, Ghita Mezzour, revealed that the official announcement of the final draft of the digital strategy for 2030 is nearing.
The strategy’s contents were developed in a participatory manner, with the anticipation of speeding up digitalization workshops in the Kingdom.
In response to questions from members of the House of Representatives on Monday, Mezzour stated that “this strategy is based on two pillars; the first one is about accelerating public services, including administrative services, and making them accessible to citizens smoothly and transparently, while the second is about injecting new dynamics into the national digital economy.”
The Minister explained that “this strategy concerns the areas of computing and communications, and its preparation is still ongoing to ensure that it is a comprehensive and integrated strategy,” considering that “these efforts aim to make the Kingdom a regional digital hub.”
Mezzour also highlighted the achievements in the field of digitalization at the national level, including “increasing the number of transactions in the offshoring sector by up to 20%, which has enabled the creation of 11,000 job opportunities in two years, in addition to Moroccan startups moving up ten positions on the continental level.”
The Minister revealed details of a partnership through which “a massive cloud services center will be launched in the Casablanca-Settat region with an investment of up to 1.4 billion MAD.”
Expected to become the first of its kind in North Africa, the center will “provide digital solutions for artificial intelligence,” emphasizing that “it will prioritize data storage within the national territory.”
She also noted that “as part of the efforts to accelerate digital transformation, the investment budget at the ministry has been increased from 20 million MAD to 3 billion MAD, representing a 700% increase compared to the first year of the government’s term.”
“These investments have been strengthened by launching training programs in digital fields for the benefit of startups,” she explained.
The Minister detailed that “a program was launched to train 15,000 youth in digital fields across the Kingdom, where 1000 youth were trained in the pilot phase and supported in entering the job market, with 70% of them successfully finding jobs.”
Mezzour also mentioned “doubling the number of youth in universities pursuing digital studies in partnership with the Ministry of Higher Education, with the goal of reaching 70,000 graduates from these universities by 2027, at a rate of 22,000 graduates per year.”
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