El Mehdi Zeroual earned a Bachelor Degree in Communication Studies from Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane in 2009. In his thesis, El Mehdi conducted a research on the use of mobile communication by Moroccan youth. Before graduating, he did three months internship in the Ministry of National Education on GENIE project which aims at introducing New Communication Technologies to public schools.

After his graduation from Al Akhawayn University, he worked in the area of democracy and governance as a program assistant in the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI-Morocco) in the Political Parties program.

El Mehdi has recently joined IIE as the Training Coordinator for the E-mediat Morocco, a new technology training and capacity building program run by IIE.

Nour Eddine Achemlal graduated with a business administration degree from Mohammed V University in Rabat. He worked for companies specialized in information technology and Internet services before re-joining the University for a Degree in management and coordination of social development projects. Through a professional internship during his studies, he was able to get close to associations and discovered that there is a large gap in communication and use of new technologies.

Since 2007, he works as ICT4D project manager (ICT for Development) in association Tanmia.ma to promote the use of new information technologies and communication at the level of Moroccan associations. In partnership with several organizations including UNDP, UNESCO, MEPI, USAID and others he has managed several projects for capacity building on ICT, open source software, podcasting, social networks, e-learning, e-advocacy ...
He is also in charge of the content of the portal www.tanmia.ma, podcast.tanmia.ma, and www.assodev.ma.