Morocco extends tech program
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 percent of the purchase cost of a laptop computer, as well as providing one year of broadband Internet.
In a meeting July 11, Prime Minister Abbas El Fassi as well as 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 only engineering students can utilize the program.
In addition to the subsidies for technology costs, ANRT seeks to outfit universities with wireless free Internet (Wi-Fi) on campus.
