December 15, 2015, GESCI officially honoured and awarded participants who successfully completed the leadership programme in ICT and Knowledge Society Development (ALICT) it delivered in Morocco in 2015. The ceremony, which took place at Le Diwan Hotel in Rabat, conferred the ALICT certificates to 21 senior civil servants and officers from various Moroccan ministries, public institutions and universities and regional organizations based in Morocco. It recognized the excellence of Morocco’s participation in the ALICT programme in 2015. Morocco received three awards for the best ALICT research projects related to the three pillars for Knowledge Society development: ICT, Education, and Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). The star performer for the 2015 ALICT programme, Mr. Abdellaziz Aichouni from the Ministry of Labour of Morocco, also received a special award. ALICT was delivered across 3 Francophone countries in 2015 – in Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco and Senegal – with close to 90 participants enrolled in the programme. M. Aichouni stated that like other developing countries Morocco has conducted in the past decades important structural reforms including in the areas of ICT, Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) and Education, which are pillars for KS development. He said: “ The development and implementation of digital projects based on ICT as a vector for transforming and modernizing is vital for Morocco for it to be prosperous politically, economically and socially.” GESCI will continue to provide technical expertise in Morocco. The ALICT Chapter for Morocco, set up during the final ALICT workshop nominated among the ALICT peers its coordinator, Mr. Aziz El Hajir from the Ministry of Education of Morocco. Read Press Release. fr or eng For more information contact: Mr. Senthil Kumar, Programme Manager, ALICT program, Eastern and Western Africa, GESCI, senthil.kumar@gesci.org OR Dr. Tarek Chehidi, Senior Programme Specialist, Francophone Africa and North Africa, GESCI, tarek.chehidi@gesci.org