Morocco integrates information society, official
Morocco, Economics, 10/5/2001

Morocco has devised a national strategy that will help the country integrate the information and knowledge society, the Moroccan secretary of state in charge of posts and telecommunications and information technology said Thursday.

The strategy targets five major priorities: new information technologies generalization, rapid deployment of infrastructures, redefinition of state role in telecom, rapid liberalization and competition and the setting in motion of necessary and adequate means, Nasr Hajji told a meeting on information technologies in Casablanca.

According to figures cited by the official, Morocco's subscribers to fixed phone went up from 400,000 in 1990 to 1,425,000 in 2000, while mobile phone users grew from 29,511 in 1995 to 4,200,000 in 2001.

Hajji announced that Morocco's telecom sector will be totally liberalized at the end of 2002, and in 2005 Morocco will join the group of emerging nations.

By 2005, Morocco seeks to train 1000 engineers, 2000 telecom BA holders annually and 2000 high technicians, the official said.

Part of the strategy, Morocco will exert more efforts to develop telecom parks in several parts of the country, he said.

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