DUBAI — Microsoft Corporation joined hands with the Dubai Cares charity programme and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation yesterday to spread the latest knowledge technology for education and research purposes in the Arab world.
The Dubai Cares-Microsoft Digital initiative was announced during a special signing ceremony attended by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
The joint initiative will provide children with access to technology that will help develop the knowledge and skills necessary for students, teachers and communities within the next five years.
The programme is aimed at raising the level of computer literacy among school staff and parents in needy communities and help teachers foster a culture of innovation among students. The initiative will result in a dramatic increase in the availability of quality education and demonstrate how technology can enhance learning and improve educational systems in the least developed parts of the world.
In the first phase, Microsoft will help establish Learning Resource Centres that serve as community based e-learning hubs for students, teachers and communities. The next phase will enable Dubai Cares and governments concerned to launch targeted PC campaigns that will ensure an effective learning environment with the relevant software, capacity development and educational curricula.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates met officials from the Dubai School of Government.
Microsoft will also soon partner with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation to launch the Arab Education and Research Network, a first-ever knowledge portal in the Arab world.
Under an agreement signed between Gates and Mohammed Al Gergawi, Chairman of the Board of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, it has been agreed that Microsoft will provide state-of-the-art technology platform for collaborative research and knowledge creation in the Arab world.
Microsoft will build the critical communications capabilities required for effective collaboration. These will include the latest knowledge sharing solutions, which will help develop an Arab Research Database and an extensive e-library.
Microsoft’s world leading communication platforms, online chat and discussion boards, newsletters, and sites for blogging and social networking will also form a core of the project.
This technology aims to boost the region’s capabilities and serve as a gateway to world-class knowledge, providing the right platform to encourage researchers and faculties contributing to the Arab knowledge development.
The platform will facilitate communication and the exchange of information and knowledge among professors, researchers and academic institutions. It will also help construct a foundation for a data bank of digital Arabic research to provide a backbone for the Foundation’s initiatives.
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The Dubai Cares-Microsoft Digital initiative was announced during a special signing ceremony attended by His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
The joint initiative will provide children with access to technology that will help develop the knowledge and skills necessary for students, teachers and communities within the next five years.
The programme is aimed at raising the level of computer literacy among school staff and parents in needy communities and help teachers foster a culture of innovation among students. The initiative will result in a dramatic increase in the availability of quality education and demonstrate how technology can enhance learning and improve educational systems in the least developed parts of the world.
In the first phase, Microsoft will help establish Learning Resource Centres that serve as community based e-learning hubs for students, teachers and communities. The next phase will enable Dubai Cares and governments concerned to launch targeted PC campaigns that will ensure an effective learning environment with the relevant software, capacity development and educational curricula.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates met officials from the Dubai School of Government.
Microsoft will also soon partner with the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation to launch the Arab Education and Research Network, a first-ever knowledge portal in the Arab world.
Under an agreement signed between Gates and Mohammed Al Gergawi, Chairman of the Board of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation, it has been agreed that Microsoft will provide state-of-the-art technology platform for collaborative research and knowledge creation in the Arab world.
Microsoft will build the critical communications capabilities required for effective collaboration. These will include the latest knowledge sharing solutions, which will help develop an Arab Research Database and an extensive e-library.
Microsoft’s world leading communication platforms, online chat and discussion boards, newsletters, and sites for blogging and social networking will also form a core of the project.
This technology aims to boost the region’s capabilities and serve as a gateway to world-class knowledge, providing the right platform to encourage researchers and faculties contributing to the Arab knowledge development.
The platform will facilitate communication and the exchange of information and knowledge among professors, researchers and academic institutions. It will also help construct a foundation for a data bank of digital Arabic research to provide a backbone for the Foundation’s initiatives.
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