Conference 09: "Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Knowledge Society", Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, December 2003

Conference 09: "Higher Education and Scientific Research in the Knowledge Society", Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, December 2003

The conference's orientations addressed fundamental topics related to the knowledge society, the most important of which was calling on Arab states to establish integrated informatics infrastructure at universities and scientific research centers, and to adopt projects for disseminating information culture and digital knowledge. The recommendations also called on Arab states to create and activate information databases and observatories capable of monitoring the development of the knowledge society, as well as to develop work tools and intelligent software for teaching and learning the Arabic language so that it becomes one of the tools of digital knowledge. The recommendations stressed the need to establish mechanisms for Arab knowledge integration and exchange, and to support these mechanisms by creating specialized scientific structures in the field of knowledge generation and dissemination. The recommendations also called for building national innovation systems that contribute to providing the framework needed to achieve the knowledge society and to modernizing educational curricula in a way that leads to building a knowledge culture and acquiring creative and critical thinking skills from the early stages of education. Proceedings of the Ninth (9) Conference (click here)