Several institutions are partners in the Miftaah project, in particular the Mohammedia School of Engineering, Morocco, and the Research Centre on Scientific and Technical Information (CERIST), Algeria.

UNESCO: Listserv to create FOSS community in Maghreb

It is also in conformity with UNESCO's objectives of promoting and disseminating development oriented content material in local languages, as well as the popularisation of scientific and technical information in pursuit of the MDGs.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

Nidae Al-Ryadh of Free Access to Scientific and Technical Information was the first Arabic declaration in support of OA by the participants in the Second Gulf-Maghreb Scientific Congress (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 25-26, 2006), which calls for free access to all scientific literature on the internet.

UNESCO: Global Open Access Portal

Plan, prepare and provide technical backstopping for educational, research, public information and awareness activities, training courses, seminars and other scientific, technical or public information meetings of interest to the region and relevant to the goals of the MAB programme.

UNESCO: Vacancy : Programme Specialist (18/1/2012) AF/RP/KEN/SC/0008 - (P-4)

Resources of human knowledge or expression, whether cultural, educational, scientific and administrative, or embracing technical, legal, medical and other kinds of information, are increasingly created digitally, or converted into digital form from existing analogue resources.

UNESCO: Communication and Information