HIBAPRESS hosted in Casablanca, on the evening of Monday, October 19, 2026, the opening session of the AI for Impact Bootcamp "Hack4Bladi," organized under the slogan "We Program for Our Country" by the Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication – Youth Sector – in the Casablanca-Settat region, in partnership with the National Institute for Innovation and Advanced Technology.
This session was chaired by the Regional Director of the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication – Youth Sector – in the Casablanca-Settat region, the President of the National Institute for Innovation and Advanced Technology, and the Head of the Youth Department at the Ministry of Youth, Culture, and Communication. The session was attended by the regional directors of the youth sector, eighty young men and women from various regions of the Kingdom, alongside media representatives.
The speakers, in their speeches on the occasion, emphasized the strength of the institutional partnership between the Regional Directorate and the National Institute for Innovation and Advanced Technology, a partnership that has accumulated successful experience through the implementation of a series of joint programs, before culminating today with the organization of this national gathering. They considered that this continuity reflects a shared vision that places youth at the center of public policies in the field of digital transformation.
The speakers also highlighted the exemplary nature of this experience in teaching youth programming and artificial intelligence, by adopting a learning-by-doing methodology, and bringing together youth from different regions and diverse technical levels, in line with the spirit of advanced regionalism based on spatial equity and equal opportunities. They stressed that the challenge is not limited to acquiring technical skills, but also includes instilling the values of citizenship and responsible use of artificial intelligence.
The speakers noted that this bootcamp constitutes a real opportunity to showcase the best innovative solutions that youth are developing for Moroccan societal issues, and a space to support and accompany these solutions, thereby allowing promising ideas to be transformed into projects with a tangible impact on society.
Starting Tuesday, October 20, the work of the teams and the official program of the event will commence, extending until Saturday, October 24, 2026. The program includes practical training workshops through the production of digital solutions, and will conclude with the presentation of digital models before a jury of experts and the awarding of the best projects.
