Morocco’s UM6P Hosts Metaverse Day to Promote Next-Generation Technology

Rabat – Morocco’s Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P) co-hosted on Wednesday in Ben Guerir an event with the tech giant and Facebook’s parent company Meta, with the aim of promoting the rising Metaverse and Web3 technology.

First of its kind in Africa, the Meta-sponsored event provides a platform for young innovators to understand the technology and vision behind the Metaverse, and Web3.

Dubbed the “1337 Metaverse Day,” the event brought together experts from Meta and other leading companies from Blockchain, NFT, and high-tech VR among others. The event provided a platform for digital entrepreneurs to explore the possibilities of growth that the Metaverse offers.

“Today is so important. This is the first time we organize a Metaverse day in one of the outstanding universities in Morocco and Africa,” Hanane Boujemi, Public Policy, Regulatory Affairs MENAT at Meta, said during her opening speech at the event.

Boujemi called the event “the start of a very fruitful relationship between and perhaps even a partnership with UM6P students.”

She explained: “We’re bringing this concept (Metavers) to Morocco, because ultimately Meta intends to cocreate the Metaverse in different capacities around the world, and that is not something we are able to do on our own.”

While addressing attendees at the event, the Meta executive said that “it is important to understand that your contribution; the value you bring to this technology will be very important and that’s why this time around, we are trying to be at the front of innovating and creating the technology.”

She added that she hopes the event would also mark the start of Meta’s debut not only in Morocco but in the whole of Africa.

The 1337 is the first coding school in Morocco; it is affiliated with the UM6P and attracts and incubates young talents.

Noting the potential of the 1337 youth, Boujemi said that she “had the opportunity to really soak up a lot of the work done, specifically by 1337, a state-of-the-art lab at the forefront of innovation.”

Hanane Boujemi Speaking at the 1337 Metaverse Day

The school “qualifies to be co-creators in what is called the next generation of the internet Web3,” Boujemi insisted.

The event further features a number of panel discussions, with experts discussing the economic value that the Metaverse holds for developing countries beyond its conventional uses as a medium for gaming or as a gallery for digital art in the form of NFTs.

According to Meta, the Metaverse and Web3 present the next frontier for innovation. The technology is said to have the potential to revolutionize society at a scale unseen since the widespread adoption of the internet.

According to Olivier S. Lemoine Managing Director at Metaverse GT, the Web3-powered technology “is a new era” with unlimited potential for young people to unlock value and use augmented reality to “push the boundaries of what’s possible.”