Hussain Al Hammadi: The Education has established a satellite operations center to meet the demand for distance education platforms

Experts from the health care, education and communications sectors confirmed that the new Corona epidemic was an incentive to accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies in these sectors so that they can continue to provide their services through digital platforms.

This came during their participation in a session that dealt with "the interaction of the health care, education and communications sector with the Corona epidemic crisis" within the activities of the second day of the virtual conference of the World Summit on Industry and Industrialization.

The Minister of Education, Hussein bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, and the Vice President for Global Public Affairs at Huawei, Edward Zou, discussed the impact of the epidemic on the education and communications sectors.

Al Hammadi stressed that the UAE was well prepared to switch to distance learning platforms in the spread of the Corona epidemic, because in 2012 it launched the Mohammed bin Rashid initiative for smart learning, and the experiences acquired by the country since the launch of the initiative allowed the ministry to develop two versions of the curriculum, a customized version. His Excellency said: “We have invested for a long time in all the infrastructure requirements that enabled us to ensure the provision of education services according to the highest international standards and in all circumstances, and we were able to build the best educational platform that is smart, flexible and meets the requirements. We have also provided teachers and students with the appropriate devices that enable them to enter the network and provide them with the capabilities to use the advanced applications and programs that were included in the basic education system.

He pointed out that the rapid transition to distance learning on an unprecedented scale continues to create huge technical and logistical challenges for the education system, and therefore, the Ministry of Education has established a satellite operations center to meet the demand for distance education platforms and communicate through them with parents and students. .

He said, "We have more than 1.2 million students in public education and we had to move them completely, within only two weeks, to the distance learning platform, and to achieve this transition successfully, we had to increase the speed of the Internet by almost 100%."

In turn, Edward Zoe highlighted the role that telecommunications played in maintaining the activity of global economies during the epidemic, but stressed the great impact of the epidemic on societies that are still unable to connect to the Internet. The information and communication technology sector is largely in the recovery of economic and social activities after the epidemic, but there are still many gaps and challenges that we have to deal with, and we have witnessed, over the past thirty years, a great leap in the development of information technologies, mobile communications, the Internet, as well as High-speed broadband connections, which have improved our lives, work and economies, however, the epidemic served as a reminder to us that we have not done everything we need to do, and that the current foundations on which the global economy is based are not as strong as we think, and according to the International Telecommunication Union, Less than half of the world's population still does not have an internet connection, does not have access to digital technologies, and children in remote areas have not been able to join online classes a

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He pointed out that investment in infrastructure at the government level is an essential part of the solution, which must be accompanied by progressive tax policies that stimulate corporate investment, and that increased investment will help support the digital transformation in companies, which has become an urgent priority in light of the epidemic, and governments will have to look at Network equipment as an important infrastructure that would allow us to operate the network and maintain equipment during a time of crisis, and called for the adoption of unified global standards for technologies to help reduce costs and enable technology deployment and communication to a much wider audience.

He said: “The presence of different standards greatly increases the cost of services for the entire sector, which represents a great challenge for the telecommunications sector, and we encourage all telecommunications companies to work together and in cooperation with the public sector to adopt unified standards for the information and communication technology sector. There is no doubt that the use and employment of technologies is spread across "Borders, and therefore unified standards will benefit users regardless of where they live, as innovative technologies and innovations belong to everyone and are not exclusive to specific countries or individuals."

For her part, Olga Golodets, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Council of Sberbank and former Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, indicated that new technologies such as telemedicine platforms, remote monitoring devices and artificial intelligence have taken center stage during the epidemic, and have provided high-quality health care for a wide range of The demand for telemedicine platforms increased during the spread of the epidemic, reaching 60 times in the United States, as people were reluctant to leave their homes to see a doctor. ”The Artificial Intelligence Lab at Sberbank developed a rapid model. To diagnose Coronavirus using CT scans, which is widely used by doctors throughout Russia.

"Today, there are hundreds of artificial intelligence models around the world that help doctors diagnose their patients, and artificial intelligence programs review many cases to build more accurate knowledge about diseases, their course, and their proposed treatment," said Goloudts.

Golditz emphasized that despite the acute phase of the spread of the epidemic, the demand for new technologies will continue, and that the experience of the epidemic has accelerated the application of new health care solutions in all areas of health care such as medical education, medical consultations, nursing and patient support services. She said: "The health care sector is witnessing a great change after the epidemic. In the past, the main task of the health care sector was to treat patients only, but after the epidemic, it has shifted to focus on preserving human health and preventing disease, and new technologies help in choosing the approach." "Right for preventive care, as people started to use special applications and programs to track their health on a daily basis, and it became the doctors' job to help them in the most effective and efficient way."

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