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The Consulate General of the Kingdom of Morocco in Lyon organized a conference in Lyon on June 25, 2025, entitled: “The role of the diaspora in the development of digitization in Morocco and support for cybersecurity”.
At the opening of this event, Ms. Fatima Baroudi, general consul of the Kingdom in Lyon, delivered an introductory discourse on the subject of the conference, which has become a major concern, taking into account the cybercrimes to which various international institutions.
Ms. Baroudi also praised the high and distinguished level of our community in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, as well as the diversity of specializations of Moroccan skills in this region. In this context, the organization of this conference, according to her, aims to urge the members of our community which are affected by the digital field to study the means and mechanisms allowing them to invest, to seriously contribute to the efforts of our country aimed at promoting cybersecurity and to strengthen the level of digitization in various fields.
Subsequently, four distinguished speakers hosted this conference; namely:
* Mr. Redouane Billaud, digitization expert and commercial director of the French company Inteldocs.
* Mr. Redouane El Haloui, President of the Federation of Information, Communication and Offshoring Technologies (APEBI).
* Professor Saïd Mabchour, who teaches in several Moroccan universities, notably the UM6P in Benguerir, as well as at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) in Lyon.
* The president of the French branch of the Nearsecure company in Paris, Mr. Toufik Fares.
It should be noted that this conference, which attended more than 140 digitization and cybersecurity specialists, focused on the following main axes:
* The major achievements of Morocco in terms of digitization and cybersecurity in recent years.
* The increase in the number of specialists in advanced technologies among the members of the diaspora working in large companies in France.
* The importance of diaspora networks as an essential engine of exchanges with Morocco in the field of cybersecurity.
* The exploration of the potential mechanisms of technology transfer and exchange of best practices in terms of cybersecurity with Morocco.
* Finally, the role of the diaspora as a key investor in digital infrastructure and technological startups in Morocco.
At the end of the conference, several testimonies were pronounced by Moroccan skills that succeeded in the fields of digitization and cybersecurity in France. At the same time, they welcomed the assiduous efforts made by the Kingdom Consulate General in Lyon to involve them in various fields, in accordance with the royal vision which pays particular attention to members of the Moroccan community abroad.
