AMMAN – Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Digital Training
(TAG Digital Training), a member of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global Digital (TAG.GD),
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the “iGate” multidisciplinary
institutes group in Morocco. The partnership aims to foster cooperation across
various professional activities and services offered by the TAG.GD’s member
companies within the Kingdom of Morocco and African countries.
The signing ceremony, held in Amman, was
attended by HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, TAG.GD founder and chairman, Dr. Houcine
Esraidi, president director general of IGATE Morocco, Dr. Hajar Nkem,
chairwoman of the Board of iGate Scalaire Private Schools, and Dr. Hicham
Khalaf Allah, board member of iGate International.
Dr. Esraidi commended the pioneering role
of Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh in supporting development, science, and knowledge across
the Arab region. He praised his significant contributions to fostering
innovation, building human capacities, and launching qualitative initiatives
that strengthen the culture of entrepreneurship and excellence regionally and
internationally.
For his part, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh instructed
TAG.GD’s team to provide all possible forms of support and cooperation, and
work on translating their training and educational programs into French to make
them easily accessible and highly beneficial for partners and students in the
Kingdom of Morocco and other Francophone African nations.
The two parties further agreed to form a
joint taskforce to explore future cooperation, which includes accrediting the iGate
center in Morocco as an authorized training and examination center for the
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International Diploma in IT Skills (TAG-DIT).
Additionally, the collaboration will cover
preparing a joint working paper on e- archiving and indexing, and conducting
training courses featured on the TAG Digital Training platform, as well as the
financial and administrative programs offered by the International Arab Society
of Certified Accountants (IASCA).
The MoU also outlines cooperation in
training youth on entrepreneurship, offering the business portfolio program for
Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and accrediting a Talal Abu-Ghazaleh
Proctored Testing Center (TAGI-Metric) within iGate University to serve as an
authorized test venue for "Voxy" English certificates, British
Council exams, and Pearson VUE testing services.
Furthermore, the MoU includes accrediting iGate
centers to deliver certified exams in information technology and cybersecurity,
providing joint consultancy services to organizations inside and outside
Morocco, and cooperating on Chinese language training and testing in Morocco,
as well as the Arabic Fluency Program (Talaqah) in Morocco and Africa.
The joint initiatives also extend to
establishing Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Stations within the Kingdom of
Morocco, teaching programming languages to Moroccan school and university
students, jointly bidding on international tenders and grants, and offering
specialized training programs in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
On the sidelines of the signing ceremony,
both parties discussed broader cooperation prospects covering language center
services, e-archiving, Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Global Digital Polytechnic (TAG
Polytechnic) programs, digital training, Chinese language programs, and
AI-driven initiatives, all aimed at bolstering skills and keeping pace with
digital transformation in the region.