In an effort to promote, disseminate and use the Arabic language, digital projects that serve Arab culture have recently emerged, most notably the launch of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) the program for the second cycle of the Arabic Digital Content Award, and the announcement of the King Salman International Complex for the Arabic Language in Saudi Arabia Launching the "Linguistic Advisor" digital platform, and Algeria's launch of the first electronic "audio-visual dictionary" for the Arabic language.

ESCWA Digital Content Award

A few days ago, ESCWA launched the program for the second cycle of the Arab Digital Content Award 2022-2023 in cooperation with the World Summit Awards Foundation.

ESCWA said in a statement that the program's goal is to promote the development of high-quality Arabic digital content that supports sustainable development, according to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).

In a press release, ESCWA Head of Innovation Department Nibal Idlebi said that the development of Arabic digital content constitutes an important step towards digital transformation and sustainable development, and contributes to narrowing digital divides between developed and developing countries and within countries themselves.

She added that the award is open to the category of institutions, and it includes governmental, non-governmental and academic institutions, and the category of young entrepreneurs from Arab countries, individuals or groups, provided that their age is less than 35 years.

For his part, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Summit Award Foundation, Peter Brook, pointed to the extent to which the mission of supporting national and regional exchanges around the world has evolved thanks to the second cycle of the Arab Digital Content Award, which encourages digital content that contributes to achieving sustainable development goals.

He stressed that supporting local projects for sustainable development, establishing links and achieving a strong positive impact is of paramount importance more than ever, noting that the Arab region has proven in recent years that it is rich in content, digital innovation and progressive thinking, and that the award provides an excellent opportunity for local content in the local language. This contributes to the formation of sustainable knowledge-based societies.

Brooke explained that a committee of experts will evaluate the proposals to select the winners and announce them at the Arab Forum for Sustainable Development for 2023, and they will participate in its activities, and the winners in the category of entrepreneurs will be able to participate in the World Summit Awards meeting and benefit from training workshops.

ESCWA had announced in a special ceremony the winners of the award’s first cycle last March on the sidelines of the Arab Forum on Sustainable Development for this year, and a jury composed of experts in digital content chose 8 winners out of 100 projects from 15 Arab countries.

language consultant

And this week, the King Salman International Complex for the Arabic Language in Saudi Arabia launched the "Language Advisor" platform, a digital platform that provides free language consultation service in all fields for all segments of society.

The Secretary-General in charge of the King Salman International Complex for the Arabic Language, Dr. Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Washmi, stressed the importance of this platform, as it is a practical, reliable and fast tool for spreading Arabic, facilitating its uses and exchanges, and providing its data.

He explained that the platform enjoys support and follow-up, based on the role of the Society in raising the status of the Arabic language globally, maintaining its integrity, supporting it verbally and in writing, and intensifying its contributions to the development of the scientific and cultural fields, and keeping pace with the goals of the Saudi Vision 2030.

Al-Washmi pointed out that the importance of the platform also stands out in supporting the implementation of official decisions requiring the use of the Arabic language in all fields, coordinating efforts to form an effective unified platform that serves it, building an integrated system to provide specialized language services to the community, and bringing classical Arabic closer to all its categories.

The #Language_Consultant platform provides easy language counseling services in several areas related to the Arabic language, in a database available to all.# King Salman International Complex for Arabic Language pic.twitter.com/MwtwKp9a22

— King Salman International Academy of Arabic Language (@KSGAFAL) July 24, 2022

Platform Services

One of the most important services of the language consultant platform is the provision of accessible language information to individuals and institutions, as it provides free language consultations to all segments of society in the areas of spelling, grammar, morphology, rhetoric, literature and language in general. permanent ones, thus making available a scientific linguistic database that people trust, and serves them in upgrading their language levels.

The platform works through a technical system that facilitates its management, and a number of other detailed features, including opening an interactive window for dialogue and discussion in Arabic language issues between the community and specialized agencies.

To preserve the integrity of the Arabic language, and to facilitate the understanding and circulation of its information, the #KingSalman_International_International_Complex_for_Arabic_Language launches the #Language_Advisor platform;

To provide general advisory services, aiming to provide easy and correct linguistic information to those who need it.

To benefit: https://t.co/0RA9h0PLTx.

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— King Salman International Academy of Arabic Language (@KSGAFAL) July 24, 2022

reaction and welcome

As soon as the platform was launched, tweets on social media in Saudi Arabia interacted with the new digital platform, describing it as a "distinguished step", stressing that it shows the country's interest in the Arabic language and works to enhance linguistic knowledge of it.

In a tweet on Twitter, a member of the Board of Trustees of the King Abdulaziz Center for National Dialogue, Muhammad Al-Awain, expressed Saudi Arabia's pride in its religion and language, saying, "It combines authenticity and modernity with a broad-minded civilized concept that accommodates and identifies with human production."

He added that the language consultant platform aims to answer the questions of researchers about the correctness and the appropriate words to express the idea, and to correct the written methods.

The Linguistic Advisor platform, launched by the King Salman Complex, aims to answer the questions of those looking for correctness and the appropriate words to express the idea, and to correct written methods.


Our country is proud of its religion and language, and combines tradition and modernity with a broad-minded civilized concept that accommodates human production and identifies with it.

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- Dr.

Muhammad Al-Owain (@dmAlowein) July 24, 2022

As for the Saudi journalist, Salem Al Sahman, he expressed his pride in his country's interest in the Arabic language by launching the language advisor platform, which is concerned with supporting the uses of the Arabic language correctly, and provides its services for free.

The Director of the International Telecommunication Development Bureau in Geneva, Sami Al-Murshed, participated in the platform, and expressed his pride in it, and the Saudi human rights opinion, Abdullah Al-Washmi, who explained that the platform represents a path to more linguistic knowledge.

The #King_Salman_International_Arabic_Language_Complex launches the #Language_Advisor platform, which aims to promote the dissemination of the Arabic language and its proper use.. We are proud of this platform

— Sami Al-Murshed (@almorshids) July 24, 2022

Political researcher Mubarak Al-Ati wrote that the King Salman International Complex for the Arabic Language provides experts in Arabic through the language advisor platform, who provide the user with free information with ease and ease.

Tweeter Nada Al-Abdullah described the platform as an "excellent step from a great country", and said that such useful platforms contribute to promoting the most important languages ​​of the world.

The King Salman International Complex for the Arabic Language published on its Twitter account a series of tweets explaining the platform, saying that "the establishment of this platform comes to achieve the goals of the King Salman International Complex for the Arabic Language in spreading the Arabic language and supporting it verbally and in writing."

He added that "the platform is a scientific reference that the beneficiary trusts, and serves him in advancing the level of linguistic use," explaining that the language consultant's platform aims to preserve the integrity of the Arabic language, facilitate understanding and circulation of its information, and provide general advisory services aimed at providing easy and correct linguistic information to those in need. to her.

audiovisual dictionary

Algeria had launched, a few weeks ago, the "first audio-visual dictionary" of the Arabic language, which has been implemented for three years, through a digital educational platform that uses visual and audio content that facilitates the search for terms and clarifies them.

The Algerian Higher Council for the Arabic Language is an accredited organization among the international non-governmental organizations partner in UNESCO (Anatolia)

"We congratulate Algeria and the Arab nation, the Arab Visual Dictionary, which is the first audio-visual Arabic work to appear in the era of technology and digitization," said council president Saleh Belaid.

He added that "the Arabic language is the language of the universe and the language of nations, and it is not only the language of the Arabs or the language of Islam, but rather the language of human civilization that has given the world more than it took."

He considered that "this Arabic lexicon will put the Arabic language in the place it lacks, which is the world of digitization and technology."

Ooredoo, which supports the project, explained that "the dictionary is a platform that primarily uses visual and audio content to clarify the meaning of words, facilitating the process of searching for terms," ​​and added that it "constitutes a modern and practical educational tool useful for linguists, academics and those interested in the Arabic language."