Rabat – The Moroccan Ministry of Education and Samsung Electronics Maghreb Arab have signed a change in their partnership agreement in order to pave the way for more cooperation to improve digital education in Morocco.
The new commitment will expand them Samsung Innovation Campus (Sic) Program and goal of promoting artificial intelligence (AI), the electronics company said in a press release.
The signing ceremony took place in the national training and meeting center in Rabat. It was participated by the Morocco’s Minister of National Education, Precision and Sport Mohamed Saad Berraada and Hee Young Hong, President of Samsung Electronics Maghreb Arab.
At the event, the prizes to the winning teams of the first edition of a national Python programming competition, which is part of the Samsung Innovation Campus Project, was also operated.
The project offers all qualifying informat teachers certified training in Python programming. The trained teachers provided the students of Common Core students Python programming.
So far, the project has trained 780 teachers, who in turn taught 1,273 beneficiaries through these learning meetings at the regional level.
Hee Young Hong said that Samsung was obliged to support education and innovation in Morocco. “By integrating artificial intelligence into the Samsung Innovation Campus and the start of the National Hackathon, we want to offer young Moroccans opportunities to explore and develop their skills in future technological areas,” he said.
Samsung In an explanation, said that the partnership is part of their vision to “use technology to improve people’s lives and contribute to the development of communities”.
For the company, the investment in digital education would help “enable young Moroccans to become managers and innovators of tomorrow”.
