Strategic Priorities Social Change Initiatives and Actions Initiative 1 : Extending and generalising IT use and equipment to education and teaching entities. • The information and knowledge society will be only developped if the younger generation acquires the know-how of technology at an early stage. Computers and internet are the powerful educational tools which can speed up human, economic, and social development. • Actions designed to provide pupils and students with computer equipment are multiplying worldwide, and their efficiency has been clearly proven. • To further promote computer equipment and internet use by actors in the education sector, the Moroccan government will implement a leader action to provide engineering students and their similars with subsidised laptops and internet access. • This initiative will supplement the ‘Génie’ program for the equipment of primary and high public schools, and the Nafid@ program to subsidise mobile computers and internet access for teaching staff, launched respectively in September 2005 and May 2008. 30 D i g i t a l M o r o c c o The National Strategy for Information Society and Digital Economy - 2009-2013