DUBAI ---- December 23, 2014 ---- Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum/ UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, the First Knowledge Conference entitled “Empowering Future Generations” was launched at Grand Hyatt Dubai Hotel.
High-ranking officials, decision makers, experts and opinion leaders took part in the event.
The Conference aims at raising innovative ideas on development of mechanisms to disseminate and transfer knowledge, and consolidate efforts through bringing together, in an annual and international gathering, innovative minds and specialists in methods of disseminating knowledge.
In his statement, HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) affirmed that knowledge production and localization should be an integral part of, and should mutually interact with, international knowledge environment. “Our supreme objective is to internationally disseminate our knowledge in accordance with the international standards,” he said.
Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh highly praised His Highness Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum’s decision to invest one and quarter billion US dollars in the development of the Internet infrastructure to provide a nurturing environment for knowledge and smart technologies, thereby enhancing the opportunities of national knowledge creation.
According to Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh, TAG-Org will launch TAGEPEDIA, an Arab digital encyclopedia, which will promote the ranking of the Arabic language on the Internet in terms of content from No. 28 to No. 4. TAGEPEDIA will be an available portal to produce national knowledge. It is expected to include one million Arabic digital, authenticated, audited, useful, and inoffensive entries. In being as such, TAGEPEDIA will be completely different from the Arabic content on Wikipedia, with manifold content compared to Wikipedia.
He also highlighted the decision taken by the Arab leaders, as they declared this year to mark the beginning of “Knowledge Creation Decade” (2014-2024) with its three themes: Alphabetical Knowledge, Digital Knowledge, and Cultural Knowledge. He then pointed out that such initiatives aims to promote the literacy projects, as illiteracy no longer relates to reading and writing, it is rather associated with the information technology skills, utilization tools and cultural knowledge as well as the outputs of education.
“Our organization will be honored to meet the representatives of the Arab governments at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo next January. We will present our proposed action plan in this meeting for the implementation of the Summit's historical decision which deserves the highest praise and appreciation,” he added.
He also stated “TAG-Org has established Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University (TAGI-UNI) as a new model of online education with new innovative methodology. "TAGI-UNI does not have its own academic programs, it rather seeks through its mission to democratize education and make accredited educational programs accessible to everyone, everywhere. For this purpose, TAGI-UNI has concluded agreements with internationally recognized universities to deliver c
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