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CHPC National Meeting 2011
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Moroccan Delegation Visits the CHPC
Oct 24, 03:51 PM
The Moroccans special interests in South Africa's information and communication technologies, high computational facilities, bioprospecting, nanotechnology and photonics led them to the Meraka Institute and the CHPC. The delegation visited the centre to get a glimpse of its infrastructure, understand the nature of the research the centre facilitates and to hopefully initiate future collaborations with the CHPC.
Members of the delegation included the honourable Rachid Benmokhaar Benabdallah, previous Minister and current President of the Human Observatory of the Kingdom of Morocco and Adviser to His Majesty Mohamed VI and Prof Zouheir Sekkat, Director of the Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research's (MASCIR) Centre of Photonics.
Morocco's proximity and special relations to Europe make it a strategic African nation of interest to the CHPC. Deliberations at the gathering bordered on the possibility of various collaborations the two countries could engage in from teleconferencing, which is a great challenge given Africa's low network availability, to data-curation and the possible exchange of fellows between the two countries for the sharing of best practises.
Discussions are hoped to culminate in a memorandum of understanding between the two nations.