Morocco to adopt e-morocco strategy
Moroccan secretary of state for posts and the new information and telecommunications technologies announced on Tuesday the government will adopt in the first three months of 2002 the E-Morocco strategy.
The official explained at a press conference the E-Morocco strategy evolves around launching the construction of a new techno-pole in Bouznika (compound for NITC enterprises), modernizing public services, training of human resources, promoting a new economy in enterprises and developing the legal framework for electronic trade.
The strategy targets to train by 2005 a total of 5,000 engineers and technicians specialized in the new information technologies, reach 3 million internet users, reform postal services and liberalize Internet and telecoms.
Morocco had announced plans to privatize the posts authority in 2002.
