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BARCELONA- HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chairman of Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization (TAG-Org) stressed on the need to embrace the Power of Mobile and modernize policies in order to create a better future for the next generation.

In his opening speech as Chair of the session on Educate to Innovate at the Mobile World Congress 2018 which was held at Fira Barcelona Gran Via, Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh began by applauding the three themes of the conference, “Creating a better future”, “modernizing policies for the Digital Era”, and “Power of the Mobile”.

More than 108 thousands from 208 countries attended the event which witnessed the participation of over 2300 companies at the exhibition that was organized at the Congress, as well as the participation of more than 10 thousand attendees from more than 400 mobile operators worldwide.

Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh later stated that TAG-Org has adopted comprehensive strategies which focused on the same themes of the Congress seeing as the future is based on the fast development in the technological field.

"We have accordingly launched the following institutions:

 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh University College, Applied College for Business and IT (taguc.com), which provides education through innovation and will open its doors September 2018.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Digital University (tag-du.com): MOOC-based academic degrees.

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh International University (tagiuni.com):  which provides online degrees and diplomas; in our strong belief that education is the key to a better future," he said.

He also stressed on a unique invention by his daughter Jumana who developed 

BETWIXT: how Internet can be used to change society not how to use devices. (betwixt.us) "A company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation is a company that captivates, motivates and innovates. Good conversation helps us think and rethink, charge up and wind down, evolve and invent and this is what BETWIXT is all about."

"We are also following our TAGITOP, the first affordable laptop which was and still is a success due to its functionality, technology and affordability with even another amazing product which we called as a project the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Digital Citizenship Smart Gadget (tag-dc.com) a Phablet like no other," he added.

Dr. Abu-Ghazaleh gave a brief on the  unique concept of youth, the Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Society (tagks.com) which provided youths with free Internet access, training courses and a research center, in addition to Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Encyclopedia (TAGEPEDIA) (tagipedia.org) which will be launched in December 2018 with over 1,200,000 articles in Arabic to enrich the Arabic content online.

Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, seeking the advice of experts present in the panel asked some specific questions such as:

Mr. Doron Avni (GOOGLE): “What are Google's efforts in Africa to promote digital skills?”

“There is a great controversy about the digital impact on the job landscape, particularly possible resulting in loss of jobs. Your expert view on this.&rdq