Our Story: Building NourID+

🌍 What Inspired Us

During a field visit to Morocco’s Drâa-Tafilalet region, we met Fatima, a date farmer struggling to irrigate her crops due to unreliable electricity. She couldn’t prove land ownership to qualify for solar subsidies, trapping her family in poverty. This mirrored a broader crisis: **30% of rural land is unregistered (World Bank, 2022), and 1 in 5 households lack electricity. We realized Morocco’s **Digital ID (CNIE) could be the key to solving both problems—if tied to land rights and energy access.

📚 What We Learned

1. Fragmented Systems: Land registries and solar programs operate in silos, enabling fraud and exclusion.
   
2. Tech Gaps: Rural Moroccans rely on USSD/SMS, not apps, due to low internet (12% penetration in villages).
   
3. Policy Alignment: Morocco’s **Solar Plan 2030 and Digital Strategy 2025 provided frameworks but lacked grassroots integration.
   
4. Cultural Nuances: Women often inherit land informally but lack legal recognition.
   

We partnered with Esaf Morocco (agricultural cooperatives) and studied India’s Digital Land Registry to adapt solutions locally.

Built With

• agile
• amazon-web-services
• api
• blockchain
• django
• javascript
• mongodb
• mosip
• security
• smartcontract
• zkp