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.