African Publishing Innovation Fund Names Five 2021 Projects
These new African Publishing Innovation Fund grants respond to the educational shortfalls in parts of Africa where the switch to digital has left students without adequate resources.
The fishing village of Butre in Ghana, the type of rural community in which girls in particularly have faced challenges in accessing online learning because of a significant urban-rural digital divide. Girls are expected to take on childcare responsibilities and household chores. Image – iStockphoto: TG23
‘Scalable Digital Learning Innovations’
In its announcement today (March 10) of its allocations of US$170,000 in 2021 funding, the African Publishing Innovation Fund has named five projects to receive grants, from an initial total of 311 applications from 26 African nations.
(MENAFN - Dubai PR Network) • 15 programs launched in 2020 bringing the total number of programs to 227 since inception
• Dubai Cares rolled out a nationwide fundraising campaign in support of students from low-income families in the UAE
• Dubai Cares launched RewirEd, a new global education platform with the vision to rewire education for a prosperous and sustainable future
• The United Nations Department of Global Communications (UN DGC) approved Dubai Cares as a member of its association
Dubai, UAE, 21 February 2021: Despite the massive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social and economic sectors around the world, Dubai Cares, part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, remained committed towards helping achieve SDG4 by rolling out global education initiatives that advocate for children and youth s right to education as well as programs that provide equitable access to quality education and learning opportunities for them. Guided by the vi
TravelFlan Expands Services to Middle East with Seed Group
17 February 2021
Seed Group, a company of the Private Office of Sheikh Saeed bin Ahmed Al Maktoum, has joined forces with an AI digital solutions company TravelFlan, which is part of the Hong Kong-headquartered Freed Group, to facilitate its expansion in the UAE and in the wider Middle East region.
TravelFlan is an award-winning travel and lifestyle firm that uses proprietary technologies such as artificial technology, big data and machine learning to provide commercial, end-to-end digital solutions to individual customers as well as big corporations. It builds consumer-facing digital platforms that combine vendor resources, inventory management, and AI recommendation systems into one solution.
UAE Hope Probe success will give fillip to economic progress
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Top officials and business leaders across the country hail the historic achievement.
As the UAE’s first mission to Mars has reached the red planet and entered its orbit on Tuesday after a seven-month journey, top government officials and corporate executives hailed the success and said the country has emerged as a rising power in the field of space exploration following a successful Mars Mission.
Leading corporate leaders said the UAE’s recent advancements on the space front are very impressive and it will place the emirate among the ranks of leaders in space sciences. They said the Hope Probe will impact technological advancements, which will lead the country to economic progress and diversification.
UAE catapults into a new era of innovation, conquest of space
10 Feb 2021 Sheikh Mohammed, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed, Sheikh Hamdan and dignitaries hold talks on Hope Probe in Dubai.
Inayat-ur-Rahman,
Deputy Business Editor
The UAE became first Arab country and fifth in the world to reach the Mars after the Hope Probe successfully entered the Red Planet’s orbit on Tuesday.
Dr Raja Al Gurg, President of the Dubai Business Women’s Council (DBWC) told Gulf Today that the UAE’s successful mission to the Red Planet marks a new dawn in the Emirati and Arab space exploration journey and represents a catalyst to the creative abilities of the UAE and Arabs peoples.