Today was finally time for my group and I to lead the site visit at ANDD. Similarly to what we have already seen with entrepreneurship in Morocco, ANDD dedicates themselves as a company to instruct those who are uneducated with technology. In doing so, they help to give an understanding to the internet to locals….
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She’s a Rainbow
It’s another day in Rabat! As our days have begun winding down, I’ve noticed myself developing more of a routine in the morning and becoming more comfortable finding may way around the medina to CCCL (although I still keep Apple Maps on just in case!). In the morning we visited the National Association for Digital…
ANDD the bathrooms locked
Today felt like a familiar one compared to other visits on this trip, but ANDD had its own unique spin that made it stand out on its own. We met them in their office, a nonprofit space with a warm, grounded energy to it, and everyone we met throughout the day was so genuinely warm…
The Moroccan Project
ANDD represents another example of Morocco’s strive for innovation, but more specifically, the role women play in it. With all the site visits we have attended, I’ve gotten the idea that Morocco is very centered around keeping tradition while also leveraging things like social media to sustain those industries. This applied especially today, where the…
Digital Skills for the Win
ANDD, an NGO focused on supporting women and young people’s entrepreneurship, is similar to other organizations we have seen so far because they too provide mentoring, training, and networking opportunities for their participants. What sets them apart, however, is their strong focus on digital inclusion. They do this by offering programs that teach people how…
Sleepy Guys and Locksmiths
Here in Morocco, we’ve already learned a lot about supporting the growth of entrepreneurship, and our site visits today to ANDD and the women center in which they help support expanded upon this theme. ANDD is focused on supporting and expanding women entrepreneurs, specifically targeting unemployed and younger women who may have an idea or…
Rethinking my career path :/
The key difference of the company we visited today was that ANDD is promoting entrepreneurship through technology, rather than promoting technological entrepreneurship (AI, coding, other tech startups), which is what the other sites focused on. Similarly, all of the companies we have visited focus on supporting entrepreneurs, promoting innovation, and guiding them to success. Their…
Day 11: Development in confidence and my lack of in Moroccan locks
Today we visited the Digital Development and Women’s Empowerment NGO, also known as ANDD. This is another nonprofit organization we have visited that focuses on the development of digital skills for women. They fulfill this mission by giving women the opportunity to develop their skills through workshops and programs that they organize. They not only…
Day 10: Ai- Should I be Worried?
Hello! Crazy to think that the program is almost done and we leave in a couple days. Sorry for the late blog. I was not feeling well yesterday and ended up sleeping pretty much from when I got home from Henna to this morning. We had a very interesting and informative lesson today on AI….
Postcards from Morocco: Profit Meets Purpose
It’s Day 10 in Morocco! And another beautiful day in Rabat! We started the day off with a site visit to the Technopark of Rabat, where we met with young Moroccans from the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (MCISE). Social Entrepreneurship is a term that we haven’t heard so far in Morocco, but…
When can AI do my landscaping work?
Today’s topics were quite broad, with one being social entrepreneurship and the other AI. Given the differences, we were all presented with the choice to pick one or the other to write our blogs on! Given how I plan to eventually get the certificate for AI foundations in business through the University of Pittsburgh, I…
Average Won’t Cut It Anymore
We had a packed day today with both going to the site visit at MCISE and coming back to the CCCL for a talk about AI from Zouheir Lakhdissi. I find the topic of AI to always come up in this day and age so I’m choosing that topic to write about for my blog…
AI Can’t Replace This $3 Crepe
Today, our speaker highlighted how AI is reshaping the role that we as humans play in entrepreneurship. He was extremely optimistic about the projection and development of the industry. One thing he emphasized was how easy it has become to skip the first stages of business development, as most people now spend more time correcting…
AI no Allen Iverson
AI is something that I believe will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the world, and I think it will change our lives in ways that most people don’t even think about. The discussion about AI today reinforced this belief of mine, as hearing someone who is already extremely successful utilizing AI and continuously invests…
Shark out of Water
Today we went to Rabat Technopark, which is unrelated to the Technopark in Casablanca despite the name. After a break, we heard from Zouheir Lakhdissi, a tech CEO and successful Moroccan Shark Tank contestant whose lecture changed the way I think about artificial intelligence. Zouheir’s talk was so relevant that it was impossible to ignore,…
Day 10: From Social Entrepreneurship to Oceanside Cafes
Today, we had a discussion at the Rabat Technopark with MCISE, where we learned the term social entrepreneurship, which is a term I had not really heard before, and made the site visit stand out to me. MCISE is the Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship. Throughout the trip, we have heard from many…
Day 10: At least Ai can’t take my spot at the beach
Today we had a great discussion on AI and the impact it is having now and will continue to have in the future. For me, as someone who is soon going to be looking for a job, selfishly my biggest takeaway was hearing that if you are not in the top 10% of your profession,…
Day 10: Computa, make AI super helpful and efficient
Today we had our site visit outside of the Old Medina in Rabat. We visited the Rabat Technopark, where we had our discussion about social entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is defined as the practice of building mission driven businesses to solve societal and environmental challenges. While traditional businesses measure success primarily through profit, social enterprises reinvests…
Good People
It’s another day in Rabat! Today we learned about two new areas that we haven’t discussed much yet on the trip: social entrepreneurship and AI. We started with a site visit to The Moroccan Center for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (MCISE) and then went back to CCCL after lunch for a discussion on AI with…
Chat pls dont take my future job
I left our discussion on AI frightened. Will all of my years of hard work in high school and college be for nothing? Will I be able to find a job out of college? Should I have paid attention to Altaf in programming essentials??? Our discussion made me realize how quickly the workforce is shifting,…