Project for electronic education,Beginning for an information society [Archives:2003/664/Business & Economy]

Mahyoub Al-Kamaly
The United States is to be funding a project for electronic education in Yemen that will include the establishment of computer and internet workshops in the capital Sana'a and a number of other governorates as a beginning for preparing an information society implemented by AMIDEAST office in its first phase in supplying workshops to schools in the capital and then in Aden.
The project would provide the school the opportunity for competition among them for obtaining computer workshops. Some schools would be chosen according to field criteria besides the participation of representatives from the ministries of education and communications as well as from the American embassy in Sana'a.
It is scheduled that the D.D.S. establishment from Washington to train teachers for working on the computer workshops in order to render them into educational workshops and that is in implementation of the principle of Yemeni-American partnership.
According to the project and its goals there would be in future a twinning operation between schools in Yemen and schools in the United States of America. The students would then be able to exchange expertise in addition to facilitating the process of communication between the students in Yemeni schools. The project embodies the development and growth of the educational relations between Yemen and the United States that has become supporting higher education at universities.
The project of electronic education comes as complementary to the attention of the Yemeni government to disseminating the information technology in Yemen. The ministry of education would include the computer as part of the curricula in the secondary schools starting from next academic year.
The ministry of education has drawn up this plan in the core of its activity and therefore it has set up committees for authoring curricula in the computer subject and it is now appointing teachers for teaching this subject.
The project of electronic education would help consolidate the culture of technological awareness and positive uses of the means of the technology of communication and information in walks of life and economy and the state's national plans.
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