Today we took a site visit to ANDD, which is the Association for National Digital Development. ANDD was similar to many of the site visits we have already had. When looking at it compared to the Casablanca Technopark, ANDD offers its workshops and other services for free, just like how the technopark offers its incubator…

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…

Today, we had a group discussion with Farah, who is the founder of the CCCL, and she talked about her own entrepreneurial journey. Throughout that discussion, she talked a lot about challenges and how she overcame them, which really helped when doing our entrepreneurship exercise. We were put into groups and had two students from…

Earlier in the week, we learned about the Anou cooperative, and today we got to visit a women’s cooperative in Marrakech. When looking at both together, you can see that their main goal is showcasing women’s handmade goods and making sure they are fairly compensated. When we had the discussion about Anou, we learned that…

The first thing we started off the day with was a walking tour and we visited a mosque in the center of Marrakech. What really stood out to me about the mosque was the first one was torn down and replaced with the current one so that it could accurately be faced towards Mecca. After…

Today I had my team’s site visit to Casablanca Technopark and it taught me a lot that I could not research online. The first thing that I learned was unlike US startups incubators Technopark does not take any shares of the company and also does not provide them with financial support directly instead most of…