A Team from Sina Institute Visits the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
A team of four members from Sina Institute visited CS department at the University of Milano-Bicocca, in Italy, from March 11, 2012 to March 20, 2012, in which intensive and fruitful scientific discussions took place. The aim of this visit is to widen the students’ knowledge and improve their abilities in various topics, in order to contribute to the institute’s scientific and research goals. This visit comes as part of SIERA project activities, mainly, revise Sina’s R&D strategy and set up joint research & cooperation. Professors and PhD researchers at Bicocca University presented their knowledge and work to the visiting members, ...
SIERA Kick-Off Conference -An FP7 project in multilingual and multicultural knowledge sharing technologies.
As a coordinator and grant holder, Birzeit University has recently launched “SIERA”, a project with a budget of half a million euros (funded by the EU FP7 program), in the field of multilingual and multicultural knowledge sharing technologies. The kick-off ceremony took place on the 24th of November 2011, and was in the presence of his excellency Dr. Mashhour Abu Dakka, the Minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology, Prof. Khalil Hindi, President of Birzeit University, Prof. Adnan Yahya, the Vice President for Academic affairs, Dr. Ali Jaber, Dean of the Faulty of Information Technology, and Dr. Mustafa Jarrar, the project ...
The Arabic Ontology presented in Tunis at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ALESCO)
In an invited talk, Dr. Mustafa Jarrar presented the Arabic Ontology at the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (AlESCO) for their "Experts Meeting on Arabic Ontologies and Semantic Networks" that was held in Tunis on 26 - 28 July, 2011. The meeting was attended by a number of high profile Arab experts from Tunis, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Morocco, Canada, and the United States of America, in addition to international consultants from IBM - New York, Sakhr Software, and Luxor Technologies, Inc, Canada. In the meeting, Dr. Jarrar presented his paper Building a Formal Arabic Ontology, which discussed the progress made in building the ...
Launching the Palestinian e-Government Academy at BZU
On 10 November 2010, BZU launched the Palestinian e-Government Academy Project, in the presence of the Minister of Communications, Dr. Mashour Abu-Daqqa, BZU President, Dr. Khalil Hindi, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Dr. Adnan Yahya, and a number of high ranking officials and European experts, as well as IT managers in Palestinian ministries and companies This launching ceremony came after the Faculty of Information Technology at BZU won a financial support of half a million Euros from the European Union, within the TEMPUS program. The core idea of the project is to prepare ...
PalGov team visits the General Personnel Council
A team from the Palestinian e-Government Academy met the Minister Moussa Abu Zeid, President of the General Personnel Council Tuesday the 13th of December, at the headquarter of the Council in the presence of senior officials from the council. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss means of joint coordination for following up and coordinating with the ministries that will nominate their employees to attend the E-gov. training courses. The meeting parties discussed and studied the cooperation mechanism between the Palestinian E- government Academy and the Council in the process of the selecting the best trainees that will in turn ...
The Minister of Telecommunications & IT Releases the Palestinian Interoperability Framework
Under the auspices of his Excellency Dr. Mashhoor Abu Dakka, minister of Telecommunication and Information Technology, the Palestinian e-Government Interoperability Framework “Zinnar” was released in a dedicated workshop with the participation of all ministries and governmental institutions in addition to the Palestinian private sector. Zinnar (http://zinnar.pna.ps) was developed by six ministries and governmental institutions: Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Technology (MTIT), Ministry of Interior (MOI), Ministry of Finance (MOF), Ministry of National Economy (MNE), Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA), and the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS). The Palestinian eGoverment academy plays a consultancy role to the Zinnar committee throught the participation of Dr. Mustafa Jarrar involvement as a ...
A Workshop in PITA to Discuss the Palestinian E-Government Academy Project
PITA – The Palestinian Information Technology Association for companies hosted an event on 11/12/2011 that was attended by representatives of the Palestinian Private Sector, Academics, and representatives from many Ministries, to discuss the Palestinian E-Government Academy project. The meeting was moderated by Mrs. Heda Al Saqqa – Membership Manager in PITA, who talked about the importance of engaging the Palestinian Private and Public Sectors in the E-government Academy Project. Dr. Yahya Al Salqan – a board member in PITA, emphasized the essentiality of the project in serving the Palestinians and facilitating their matters of life. Dr. Mustafa Jarrar gave a presentation ...
SIERA Partners Participating in First Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis in Trento, Italy
The Palestinian e-Government Academy hosted a workshop on the “Development of the Roadmap for Digital Information Security”
Estonian experts holding a workshop in Birzeit University on 7 – 8 May
An Academic Team from the Republic of Korea Visits Sina Institute
A Team from Sina Institute Visits the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
معهد ابن سينا يطلق عمل تعاوني باسم “مشروع الانطولوجيا العربية”
Thesis Defense in Birzeit University Titled “On Using a Graphical Notation in Ontology Engineering”
PalGov Training Program Kick-off in the News
The Palestinian E-Government Academy kicked off its Professional Training Program
Kick-off Event of The Palestinian e-Government Academy Training
