Towards an innovative territorial governance in the digital age and its role in the implementation of the fourth axis of the New Development Model[Vers une gouvernance territoriale innovante à l'ère du numérique et son rôle dans l'implémentation des orientations du quatrième axe du Nouveau Modèle de Développement]

The Special Commission on the Development Model (SCDM) officially revealed its report in May 2021, outlining both the Kingdom's socio-economic situation, and the major strategic inflections and concepts to be adopted to rebuild a new Morocco by the year 2035. With a view to realizing the essential aspirations of the New Development Model (NDM), the SCDM has identified four transformation priority area for building a flourishing and equitable nation. Through its fourth transformation priority area, the NDM has made the territory the foundation on which public policies are deployed. Decidedly, to ensure to ensure the implementation of the NDM, the SCDM emphasized the need to modernize the territorial governance model, and called for the promotion of the principles of digital inclusion. This article aims to explore how, in this era marked by a profound digital transition, we could use innovative territorial governance in order to achieve the recommendations of the fourth transformation priority area of the NDM. To this end, we have adopted a hypothetico-deductive approach based on bibliographical references. Thanks to this approach, we were able to decipher how the combination of the two concepts of territorial governance and digital technology enables the establishment of innovative territorial governance. The conclusions drawn from our analysis revealed the key role by the deployment of this combination, which is essential for implementing the objectives of the NDM.