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The i-7 Summit

Computer Based Literacy project: ABAJID Software

A-Repartition of illiteracy rate in the world

B-Presentation of the Software " ABAJID ".

C-Our pilot experiment in the sector of the Textile industry in

Morocco.

D-presentation of the association AMAL

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World illiteracy map

A traditional teaching course

The Maghreb Association for the Elimination of illiteracy

- A.M.A.L -is a nonlucrative NGO (NON-GOVERNMENTAL

ORGANIZATION) that was created to participate, in the eradication of the

illiteracy from which, at least 40 % of the Moroccan population has been

suffering, particularly in the rural world.

Presentation of The Maghreb Association for the Elimination of illiteracy (1)

Our approach was motivated by the statistics made on this field.

We noticed that in our country, after half a century of independence,

the traditional means and methods that have been used did not

show convincing results.

Presentation of The Maghreb Association for the Elimination of illiteracy (2)

Our association believes that the illiterate of the 21st century is not only the

one who doesn’t know how to read and write but also the one who doesn’t

master the IT tool.

So, we introduced a computer based literacy program. The results with a

first group of students on this program are very promising.

Presentation of The Maghreb Association for the Elimination of illiteracy (3)

We launched, in May, 2006, with the useful assistance of a NGO in

Casablanca, a first literacy course with the help of training tutors and

computers.

The results were as high as expected : after 120 hours of training, the

students were able to read, write in Arabic, make basic mathematical

calculations, and all of this on the computer.

Presentation of The Maghreb Association for the Elimination of illiteracy (4)

Successive classes were hold and the results were even better.

The trainees are here to give testimony of this success to their fellow

national citizen that have remained illiterate despite all actions led by the

governmental authorities in charge.

Presentation of The Maghreb Association for the Elimination of illiteracy (5)

Illiteracy= a real handicap

that prevents social and economic development in our country,

in the era of globalization.

Presentation of The Maghreb Association for the Elimination of illiteracy (6)

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The Learning COMMUNITY (1)

In Morocco illiteracy affects

=about 40 % of the population that is 8 million uneducated people.

For the needs of our study, to limit the pejorative effect of the qualification

‘illiterate’, we will use the qualifier ’learner’ to designate the illiterate in our

presentation.

A team composed of one quality control engineer, consultants and coaching

experts, has been created with a purpose to utilize member’s expertise to fight

illiteracy.

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The constraints to reducing adult illiteracy are many:

-The size and diversity of its population;

- The time it takes, by conventional methods, to teach a person

- High dropout rates;

- The lack of trained and dedicated teachers; and inadequate

infrastructure.

Our computer-based functional literacy program

overcomes these obstacles.

The Learning COMMUNITY (2)

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Why to invest time and energy? For what stake?

The stakes are multiple.

If it is a working population it is certain that bringing a paper based knowledge rather than

oral, as it is today, will bring substantial improvements in communication. And this will

reduce considerably the chance of errors.

If it is a rural population there is no doubt that this will help in a more efficient way to

expand the citizenship culture to them.

The Learning COMMUNITY (3)

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In both cases we can say that this action against illiteracy for the Learning Community is

going to:

Increase the added value and develop the efficiency of the community,

Break out of the social isolation of a population which was seeing itself as left behind

any social or economic development,

Integrate practices of today and tomorrow like new information technologies

The Learning COMMUNITY (4)

1985

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1980

19951990 2000 2003

Year 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2003

Illiteracy in adult population (In %)

71.4 66.5 61.3 56.1 51.2 48.3

80.00

The Learning COMMUNITY (5)

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The 2010 ALIF ProgrammCGEM – AMAL

Literacy project in the textile industry

The E-Alpha course (1)

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CONTENTS

• The textile industry : main indicators

• Illiteracy in this sector

• The functional literacy program and its stakes

• Objective and commitment of the AMITH association.

• Strategy and organization put in place

• Allocation in human and financial resources.

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The Moroccan textile industry is considered as a key sector for the

Moroccan economy.

2010

• The first employer: more than 250.000 employees, about 4 % of

the labor force.

• The first exporter: more than 30 billion dirham's, about 40 % of total export revenue.

• The first investor in the industry field, more than three billion dirham's, 25 % of

total industry related investment.

• The first entrepreneur, more than 2000 companies, 25 % of

market share.

The textile industry : main indicators

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About 40 % of illiterates in the textile sector where:

• 250.000 employees in 2000 companies mainly SMEs/SMIs (90 %).

• The female labor force represents about 70 %.

• The sector of the basic functional textile industry consists of about 500 companies

(fabric painting, spinning, weaving…) and realizes 33 % of market share in the export

revenue.

Illiteracy in this sector

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From this simple observation that:

Illiteracy No access to functional training

The stakes are high because of :

• the requirements of the market in terms of productivity, quality of products ..

• the use of more and more sophisticated devices requiring a training

• the wild competition

The functional literacy program and its stakes (1)

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It implies to find one :

Solution Functional literacy program

To increase :

• The skills of the men and women in the sector.

• The productivity and the efficiency of its resources which are mainly human based.

This will enhance the level of the textile industry overall.

The functional literacy program and its stakes (2)

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The experiment and pilot highlighted the following

advantages of the computer-based literacy training system:

• Quicker learning

• Flexibility : adjust to individual learning speeds and schedules

• Lower dropout rates.

• Lower requirement for trained teachers or large-scale infrastructure.

• Can be conducted on low-end, recycled computers.

• Pronunciation of the words/letters is taught accurately through the multimedia format.

• The learning of the second language in this particular case " French " could be more easily

obtained by the use of the same tool, this time in French

The functional literacy program and its stakes (3)

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In January, 2000, an agreement has been signed between AMITH (Moroccan Association

for the Textile Industry) and the DLCA ( department of the Ministry of Employment and

Social Development and Solidarity in charge of literacy program), with the objective to:

• Teach, read and write 50.000 employees over 4 years from 2001 as follows :

o 1st year 5.000 Employees

o 2nd year 10.000 Employees

o 3rd year 15.000 Employees

o 4th year 20.000 Employees

THE AMITH would like to extend its implication in the fight against the illiteracy in Arabic by opting for the program " ALIF 2010 “, our computer based literacy program.

The Objective and Commitment of AMITH association (1)

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Assuming :

• Most of companies are SME/SMI approximately 2000

• Each SME/SMI would like to teach in average 50 employees.

• in total 100.000 employees to be put into Arabic literacy program.

For these reasons above, the needs will be:

o 1 coach for 25 companies

o 1 Godfather per company and for 25 pairs.

o 1 pair composed of one tutor and one learner.

o 1 tutor per learner

o 1 training cycle of 6 months

o 1 year will be composed of 2 training cycles.

Strategy and organization put in place

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The needs in tutors :

Allocation of human resources

Year Coach Godfather Tutor Learner Region

2005 2 50 2.500 2.500 Wilaya de Casablanca

2006 4 100 5.000 5.000 // //

2007 6 150 7.500 7.500 Wilaya de Casablanca -

Rabat --Salé

2008 12 300 15.000 15.000 Casa-Rabat-Fes-Meknes

2009 24 600 30.000 30.000 Casa-Rabat-Fes-Tanger-

Oujda

2010 32 800 40.000 40.000 Casa-Rabat-Fes-Tanger-

Marrakech-Tetouan-

Agadir-Laayoune

Total 80 2.000 100.000 100.000 Whole territory

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Allocation of financial resources (2)

Objective Financial resources needed in 000 DHS

YearLearner

Number

Coach

Compensation

Parrain

Compensation

Computer

cost

toolkit

cost

Data show

costTotal

2008 15.000 432 4.320 390 1.800 1.962 8.904

2009 30.000 864 8.640 780 3.600 3.924 17.808

2010 40.000 1.152 11.520 520 4.800 2.616 20.608

Total 100.000 2.880 28.800 2.080 12.000 10.464 56.224

The E-Alpha course (2)

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CONTACT

Mr Mouawya Moukite : Founder Chairman of « AMAL » association

Tel : 212 522 22 96 00 / Fax : 212 522 22 96 07 / Mail :

mmoukite@vlmconsulting.ma

Mr Abdelmoumen Moukite :General Director of « AMAL »

Tél : 212 522 83 42 / 212 661 31 38 00 / Mail :

moumenmoukite@yahoo.fr

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Assuming:

- Coach compensation of : 3.000 DH per month

- Godfather compensation of : 1.200 DH/month

- Cost of training toolkit : 120 DH

- Cost of multimedia computer: 2.500 DH

-Cost of a Data show tool : 13.080 DH

- tutors are volunteers and hence not remunerated.

=> Average teaching cost per learner will be : 563 DH.

The financial cost and budget allocated are described in the following table

Allocation of financial resources (1)

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The program " ALIF 2010 " plans the vocational training in Arabic of 100.000 employees

(that is 40 % of the global staff of the employees in the textile sector).

This training which would have started in 2005 would evolved in 2010 as follows :

• Year 2005 2500 employees

• Year 2006 5000 employees

• Year 2007 7500 employees

• Year 2008 15.000 employees

• Year 2009 30.000 employees

• Year 2010 40.000 employees

The Objective and Commitment of AMITH association (2)