Morocco is a rapidly developing country. By late 1990s the nation started recognising how ICTs are
changing the world and thereby expressed the need to use ICT in response to two major challenges:
the need to make a shift towards Information society and its underpinning ICT-mediated information
intensive economy, and the need to improve governance quality towards fostering human
development (Morocco, 2006). Using ICT as a development tool to Morocco’s sustainable socioeconomic
development became increasingly expressed as a ‘national aspiration.’ This was first
officially and publicly articulated in the speech of His Majesty, King Mohamed VI, delivered during the
symposium on Morocco at the Global Society of Information and Knowledge (‘Le Maroc dans la
société globale de l’information et du savoir’ in French) held in 2001(Morocco, 2007).