In response, the municipality of Fez collaborated with a research team of the ICT4D lab at Al
Akhawayn University (Ifrane, Morocco) to address BEC related organizational misbehaviours.
Accordingly, the project team launched Fez e-Government Project: eFez project in 2004 and
successfully completed by November 2005 a pilot e-Government system/platform: electronic
Fundamental Etat-civil System (eFES) funded by the International Development Research Centre
(IDRC) through its Acacia Initiative and deployed in the local administration of the city of Fez. Project
evaluation has revealed eFES transformative capabilities and influence on BEC organizational
misconduct and local good governance conditions in general.