Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the crown prince of Dubai, has described the rapidly approaching 7th Dubai airshow as a “source of pride to the nation.”
Speaking before the Sunday opening of the Dubai 2001 Airshow, Sheikh Mohammad called the event "a big moral, financial and cultural achievement for us. These huge quality and specialized exhibitions were previously monopolized by countries like the US, Britain and other superpowers for a long time."
The prince, who is also the UAE’s minister of defense, emphasized that the show had grown stronger than ever, and this year was expected to attract 500 participants from around the world.
However, Sheikh Mohammad renewed a call he made earlier at the Davos Summit to allocate 20 percent of the world's budget for weapons to support education and culture, said the report.
"Developing education in terms of curricula, teaching methods and specialization required in this era has become a must, so that our country can keep moving ahead with the globalization era efficiently," he said.
In late September, the Dubai Men's College (DMC) work team comprising students entrusted with the promotion of use of IT in secondary schools was expected to receive around 600 to 700 projects for the UAE Educational IT Challenge.
An event at that time, organized by the Higher Colleges of Technology in collaboration concerned institutions, was aimed at promoting the use of IT in classrooms throughout the country.
The DMC team was assigned to follow up on the procedures to forward the information to all secondary schools in Dubai.
Dubai is internationally recognized as an IT hub. Dubai Internet City is the first complete IT and Telecommunications center in the world to have been built inside a free trade zone – Albawaba.com
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