His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of the Executive Council, launched the Dubai Audio Library, the largest Arabic audio library in the world, targeting seven million Arabs who face a visual challenge at the initiative of the Roads and Transport Authority With the World Bookshare.org website, coinciding with World Volunteer Day. The inauguration was attended by the Director General and Chairman of the Board of Directors of RTA, Mattar Al Tayer, and the Secretary General of the Executive Council of Dubai, Abdullah Al Basti.
87 A poem to Zayed and to Zayed. - Objective to access the number of audio books to 300 thousand in Arabic. - The Dubai Audio Library promotes a culture of reading among those with visual challenges. |
His Highness the Crown Prince of Dubai has uploaded the first book in the Dubai Audio Library, Sheikh Zayed, to His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, which includes 87 poems to Zayed, Zayed and Love. Zayed, representing the number of poems Omar Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, may God rest his soul.
The Dubai Audio Library initiative is in line with the Dubai Day initiative, which aims to strengthen the spirit of volunteerism by allocating community members at least one day to various forms of volunteering activities, as part of RTA's efforts to support stakeholders, They will have access to various knowledge, with the aim of providing 300 thousand books in Arabic, with the participation of more than 10,000 volunteers, will convert Arabic books to digital books, through OCR scanning machines, which will be available to them, To digital files before Upload them to the website.
Clear and check
The initiative includes two types of volunteering: the first is to scan old books on a single page, then upload them to the library site. The second is to check the books that have been digitized before uploading them to the website. Self-confidence, determination to deal with life problems, enrich imagination, and other constructive ideas and themes.
A platform for volunteering
The Library is a platform for volunteering to serve more than seven million Arabs who face visual challenges. Bookshare.org provides 600,000 books in English, while the number of Arabic books does not exceed 300, and the Authority seeks to bring the number of Arabic books on the site to 300,000. .