Rabat – The Ministry of the Interior has established a data center, to digitize its civil status management system. This modernization initiative aims to improve the ministry’s management of births and deaths of Moroccan citizens, and foreigners residing in Morocco.
The initiative was officialized by the government council this Monday, August 23, as part of a wider reform of the civil status system.
The newly passed law No. 36.21 now requires health facilities to electronically declare and record all births and deaths which occur within the Moroccan territory.
These new provisions concern civil and military hospitals, as well as local authority representatives.
According to the Ministry of the Interior, these measures will take effect once the newly passed decrees will be published on the official bulletin.
Each newborn, of Moroccan or foreign origin, will be given a digital national identifier once the birth is declared.
By simplifying the procedures and formalities linked with civil status procedures, the ministry will set a new standard in the modernization of Moroccan bureaucracy.
The civil registry office is the epitome of complex bureaucracy in Morocco, and is usually associated with long cues, complicated paperwork, fussy civil servants, constant delays and the unfortunate propagation of corruption.
Among other major innovations, births and deaths will be declared exclusively through electronic means in real time, and administrative documents with authenticated signatures will be accepted as electronic documents. The reforms are intended to find solutions to the bureaucratic bottlenecks prevalent in the Moroccan government.
Moroccan companies and consumers would greatly benefit from virtual systems and digital formats in areas like trade and banking, if other Moroccan institutions follow suit.
