AMMAN --- June 8, 2011 --- Under the patronage of HE Senator Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, founder and CEO of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org), with the presence of Ms. Hana Shahin, executive director in King Hussein Foundation (KHF), and a large number of interested people in educational and technical fields, Jubilee School affiliated with KHF organized on June 2, 2011 the official award ceremony of the Eighth annual Arab Student Competition on “Websites Design and Development”. The Competition was recently concluded with the participation of 85 students from public and private schools and institutions in addition to distinguished schools and educational centers from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.
The participating websites in this year’s competition focused on the topics of environment, childhood, states and capitals, contemporary university majors, labor market, art and life.
The participating websites were judged and evaluated by a committee that comprised specialists from both public and private academic institutions, universities, ministries and pioneer technological companies, based on nine international standards to ensure fairness and transparency.
In his opening speech, HE Senator Abu-Ghazaleh stressed the importance of school role in producing a generation specialized in IT field to serve community stating that “in consideration of such significance in the educational process, we will launch during this month the ICT project in education in partnership with UNESCO. We have already implemented the electronic society system at Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Graduate School of Business (TAGSB).”
HE Senator Abu-Ghazaleh also stressed TAG-Org’s focus on the youth being the drive of creativity in the era of knowledge, adding that TAG-Org seeks to launch TAG-Pedia to enrich the Arab Internet content through the team work of students enrolled in Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Society (TAG-Knowledge).
HE Senator Abu-Ghazaleh pointed out that the production of TAGITOP, the top of the line laptop capabilities with notebook probabilities, is an at-cost contribution to the society, especially to school and university students and awarded “TAGITOP” to the winners.
Moreover, HE Senator Abu-Ghazaleh explained that this competition has proved the importance of website design with regard to development, education, content and technical aspects.
“As an initiative to prepare the appropriate environment to students in terms of providing them with Internet, training and preparation for the labor market, we established TAG-Knowledge, the members of which reached 21 thousands from university students. TAG-Org websites amounted to 60, and the number exceeds 10 million visitors annually.”
In conclusion of his speech, HE Senator Abu-Ghazaleh advised the students to take into account the credibility and respect of intellectual property rights in designing and developing websites. HE also thanked TAG-Org’s representative in the competition Mr. Ramez Quneibi, web development department manager, being one of the judges for the second consecutive year.
HE Senator Abu-Ghazaleh also recommended the establishment of a web-based society for web designers and developers titled “Arab Website Experts” in order to communicate, share experiences, raise awareness and develop competencies, where any interested party in web design and development can join to serve knowledge in the Arab world. Moreover, he declared his willingness to sponsor such a project.
Ms. Dima Zuaiter, head of the Competition’s organizing committee, stressed the significance of this competition in disseminating the concepts of te
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