YEMEN Press Agency

3rd Conference on Technological Knowledge & Digital Transformation in Higher Education launched in Sanaa

SANAA, Dec. 21 (YPA) – The third Conference on Technological Knowledge and Digital Transformation in Higher Education, organized by the Information Technology Center at the Ministry of Higher Education, was launched on Wednesday in the capital Sanaa.

At the inauguration of the conference, Member of the Supreme Political Council, Jaber Al-Wahbani, stressed the importance of keeping pace with the rapid scientific and technological developments and catching up with the knowledge progress and digital transformation witnessed by developed societies and countries.

Al-Wahbani pointed out the need for such advanced steps that contribute to openness to the world and the orientation for this type of education to build generations capable of advancing the national economy.

He called for investing in the scientific and technological fields to contribute to training and qualifying the younger generations, praising the role of the Ministry of Higher Education and its affiliated institutions in preparing and organizing the conference.

For his part, Deputy Prime Minister for National Vision Affairs, Mahmoud Al-Junaid, considered basic, technical, vocational and higher education the main gateway to the advancement and progress of any society.

Al-Junaid affirmed that the conference comes within the framework of the directives and objectives of the national vision and the achievements of the September 21 revolution in institutional reform.

He stated that the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research and its affiliated institutions and agencies are interested in strengthening the country’s capabilities, and that digital transformation has become today a major requirement for all state institutions.

In turn, the Minister of Higher Education – Conference Chairman – Hussein Hazeb emphasized the importance of the conference, which discusses one of the most important issues of the era represented in “technological knowledge and digital transformation”.

Hazib called on Yemeni universities to focus on scientific research and direct their activities towards issues and problems of society and the requirements of development.

He assigned the Academic Accreditation Board to prepare the standard content of technological knowledge and digital transformation in Yemeni universities.

After that, the sessions of the two-day conference began, which will discuss about 75 local, Arab and international research papers distributed on nine axes, which are “digital transformation..reality and ambition”, “digital transformation and requirements for academic accreditation”, “technological knowledge and requirements for digital transformation”, “quality of education, digital transformation and future bets”, and “automation and technological integration”, as well as “digital transformation and its relationship to scientific research and higher education institutions.”

 

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