Morocco's Technology
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Morocco’s Casablanca Technopark was established in October of 2001 and covers a total surface of 29,400m². This is Morocco's first industrial park in Casablanca and this project is under the supervision of Ministry of Communications of Morocco, which takes care of the Casablanca Technopark and its General Director of Rabat Technopolis, Abderrafie Hanouf. The Casablanca Technopark helped a lot to improve the industrial aspects of the city in Morocco. The industrial park proves that Casablanca is improving in all aspects including the technological aspects. Various multinational companies are investing in Casablanca because Casablanca Technopark serves various essential purposes in the society of Casablanca. Different types of activities are arranged in the Casablanca Technopark like its training and courses regarding e-learning that is very helpful for the students in Casablanca.
As of 2006, Casablanca Technopark was hosting 132 companies, which comprised of 55 start-ups, 67 medium-sized companies, 4 big companies and 6 training centers. The business incubator provides business owners with an environment that helps them establish and develop their projects in the ICT field and turns their ideas into strong businesses. By providing services to them and enabling overhead costs to be reduced by sharing facilities, the incubator aims to significantly improve the survival and growth prospects of start-ups and small firms in the early stages of development. The incubator offers a wide range of complementary services and provides dedicated office space, value-added business support, technical assistance in developing effective business planning, hands-on training in special fields, business links, advice and networking. In November 14 2003, an agreement was made removing all tariff barriers on Information Technology products, which included telecoms equipment and personal computers. This agreement made Morocco the 61st member of the WTO's Information Technology Agreement, which was approved by The Committee of Participants on the Expansion of Trade in Information Technology Products. Morocco's Ambassador Omar Hilale said that Morocco's imports of Information Technology products have been increasing in recent years because of tariff cuts and by joining the Information Technology Agreement it would make prices of Information Technology inputs in Morocco more competitive and would drive a strong signal to foreign investors and promote local industries by making Information Technology products cheaper for Moroccans.
A breast Cancer screening center using the tele-mamography technology was launched on June 25, 2007, for the first time in Morocco and the Middle East region, part of Morocco's strategy to boost the fight against cancer. The “Lala Salma Association Against cancer” in collaboration with the Brussels Coordination Center for Breast Cancer Screening set this up. This center is expected to provide high-quality screening services called tele-mammography for approximately 1000 women in the Rabat region to extend in the future to the rest of the country. Digital mammograms, made and analyzed at the National Institute of Oncology are to be transmitted electronically for a second reading at Brussels Coordination Center for Breast Cancer Screening. This method will help reduce error interpretation and diagnosis.
