The conclusion of “Hakaton East” activities to improve the digitization of social and solidarity institutions

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

This article was automatically translated from Hibapress, the Arabic version:

Yesterday, Sunday, the Oriental Hackathon activities, which formed an open platform for innovation and creativity, while the participants contributed for the development of digital solutions to support the digitization of social and solidarity institutions (ESS) . This event was organized by the National School of Trade and Management (ENCG) in Oujda and the University of Mohamed I, in partnership with the Eastern Regional Investment Center, the Abdul Qadir Bin Saleh Foundation and journalism Regional Federal, within the framework to support and encourage young people to develop innovative solutions to deal with technological challenges and entrepreneurship. The competition attended the participation of 14 teams from various specialties, because they worked throughout the competition to develop innovative digital projects aimed at facilitating the work of social and solidarity institutions and improving their administrative and commercial performance thanks to advanced technical solutions. This event is an opportunity to improve the capacities of students and young people in the field of digital transformation, by allowing them a competitive environment which leads them to creativity and to develop applicable ideas, which improves their contribution to development economic and social. The “Hakaton East” also has been a space for the interaction between participants and experts in the fields of technology and management, because candidates benefited from framing and advice by professionals and university professors , which helped them improve their ideas and projects. In this context, Adel Rashdi, director of East Hakaton, stressed in a declaration to our newspaper, that this initiative reflects the growing importance of digitization in the development of the social economy and solidarity, as a lever basic to improve economic and social integration and carry out sustainable development. He stressed that the solutions developed during the competition would help improve the performance of cooperatives, associations and small contracts, by adopting technological tools that facilitate management, digital marketing and services development. This type of competition is highlighted an opportunity to improve the meeting of efforts between actors in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, and to motivate young people to adopt technological solutions as a major tool for the development of projects . For his part, Ashraf and Chat, a member of the team who called him “social workers”, who won the first row of the competition, explained that their project is a platform that brings together voluntary objectives , as well as young volunteers and allowing them to allow them from a space which helps them to communicate quickly in order to submit or receive voluntary offers, especially since Morocco is about to organize the Cup people, with what it means in order to urgently require young volunteers to make this demonstration success. This demonstration highlights the extent of the university’s participation to support the creativity of students, by creating bridges between academic training and applied practices required by the labor market, in particular in light of acceleration digital transformations. Hakaton East presents itself in the context of growing interest in digital transformation as a means of improving the performance of institutions and improving their competitiveness, because such initiatives seek to consolidate the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship Among young people and motivate them to invest their skills in the creation of innovative solutions that serve local development.