A new important Project and funding granted to the ICT4D lab
In recognition of the success of the eGovernment Project, the International Development Research Center has granted the ICT4D lab headed by Dr Driss Kettani an amount of 472.800$ (3.674.680 DH) to scale up our Research to the national level and generalize the eGovernment Platform and associated Roadmap to the whole Wilaya of Fez and other Moroccan cities including Larache, Hajeb, and Ifrane.
The new project duration is 24 months and it intends to build on the findings, achievements, and outcomes of the first phase in order to:
1. Complete the BEC automation enabling electronic delivery of a wider range of citizen oriented services: eFez 1st phase succeeded in initiating BEC automation and started enabling certain electronic services. It could not enable the delivery of all BEC services within two years. Thus, the proposed phase of eFez project aims to complete BEC automation in order to electronically enable all its –automatable- services. These include, among others, building citizens’ database to enable citizens have instant and convenient access to their respective certificates related to marriage, divorce, name changes, professional status, residency, and so on. The automatable BEC services include also those related to Fez court’s files and police records for being widely requested by the local community;
2. Generalize (or spatially diffuse) the eGovernment tools (enabling BEC automation and its related electronic services developed and implemented within the framework of e-Fez phase 1 and eventually enhanced within the framework of the proposed eFez phase 2) so that they could be deployed within the whole city of Fez as well as partner cities and provinces, including Larache, Hajeb and Ifrane;
3. Enhance and refine the national roadmap: by making it generic, less specific to the eFez local/regional context in order to further facilitate the generalization of these e-local governance systems at the national level. The roadmap towards nation-wide generalization will be elaborated and refined in a pro-active collaboration with Morocco’s e-government committee, known as “le Comité e-Gouvernement du Maroc”;
4. Enhance and refine the national outcome assessment method based on a broader and more representative sample of Moroccan population in order to ascertain its validity at the national level. The method will be further enhanced via developing automated survey and analysis tools enabling data gathering to assess the good governance related indicators as well as the good governance related quality attributes of eGovernment system.
5. Enhance e-Readiness/e-Awareness levels within broader base of citizens, employees and decision makers at the national level.