Morocco extends tech program for students

The Moroccan government extended a program to provide technology to the country’s postgraduate students, the Dutch research firm Telecompaper reported this week.

The Digital Morocco 2013 program subsidizes 85% of the purchase cost of a laptop computer, and provides one year of broadband Internet.

In a meeting on 11 July, Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi and other ministers discussed the program as well as other future initiatives.

The service is provided by the Universal Telecommunications Service Management committee, or Agence Nationale de Réglementation des Télécommunications (ANRT) ANRT.

The initiative does not cover all students right now, as only engineering students can utilize the program. In addition to the subsidies for technology costs, ANRT intends to outfit universities with Wi-Fi internet on campus.

Jahd Khalil