An invitation we did not expect
On March 8, 2026, I had the honor of speaking at TECHNOPARK Maroc in Casablanca, as part of the 16th edition of the Journée Internationale des droits des Femmes.
Invited by Naoual Bakry, I was asked to share the story behind Darlkhir, which translates roughly as "House of Good," a volunteer coordination app built for Moroccan charitable organizations. The room was full of builders, entrepreneurs, and people who care about what technology actually does in the world.
What Darlkhir is, and why it matters
Darlkhir is a mobile app we built with Expo, designed from day one around one question: how do you make it easier for volunteers and charities to find each other and coordinate?
Charitable work in Morocco is widespread and genuinely committed. But the infrastructure behind it is often fragmented. Coordinators manage everything through WhatsApp threads and spreadsheets. Volunteers show up and do not know where they are needed. Resources go unmatched.
Darlkhir is not a big platform play. It is a focused tool built for a specific, real need.
The bigger picture: AI and social value
The panel conversation pushed beyond the app itself into something more interesting: how AI is changing what is possible for builders who want to create social value.
The pattern we are seeing is that AI compresses the gap between an idea and something working. A small team, or even one person, can now build and ship things that would have required a much larger operation two or three years ago. That compression matters most in social and civic contexts, where the teams are small but the problems are real.
What does not change is judgment. Knowing what to build, who it is actually for, and what success looks like cannot be delegated to a model. That is still the hard part.
Grateful for the conversation
The other panelists, Loubna Draiss, Meryem Benjelloun, Morad El Mazyani, Akram Ougri, and Redouane Agoudal, brought perspectives from across the ecosystem. The conversation was one of those rare ones where disagreement was productive and the room left with more questions than it arrived with.
Thanks to TECHNOPARK for building a space where technology and social responsibility share the same stage. We need more of those spaces.
If you are building something that sits at the intersection of tech and community impact, reach out.