Conference 17: "Artificial Intelligence and Education in the Arab Countries", Cairo, the Arab Republic of Egypt, December 2019

Conference 17: "Artificial Intelligence and Education in the Arab Countries", Cairo, the Arab Republic of Egypt, December 2019

The conference addressed the topic of artificial intelligence and education in the Arab countries, examining — through the main study and the set of studies prepared by the Arab Organization for Education and Culture for this purpose — the challenges facing Arab countries in benefiting from the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the stakes they wish to win by employing artificial intelligence applications in education to help achieve digital transformation, improve education systems and enhance their outcomes. The 17th Conference sought to achieve a number of objectives, including exploring ways to localize artificial intelligence and benefit from its positive aspects in developing the higher education and scientific research systems in the Arab countries; sharing knowledge and benefiting from good practices by linking universities, scientific research institutions and researchers in a comprehensive network in order to achieve integration in policies, strategies and programmes; and enabling Arab countries to exchange their experiences in employing artificial intelligence in higher education and scientific research.

The conference concluded by adopting a set of recommendations, including taking the necessary measures and steps at various levels to achieve comprehensive digital transformation in order to reduce digital divides, ensuring equal opportunities to benefit from the use of artificial intelligence, working to develop general policies and executive plans to promote the employment of artificial intelligence in education and scientific research and in shared Arab issues, fields and challenges such as language, culture, environment and disasters, and securing the local coordination this requires among the relevant parties internally and externally.