The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (ICT Department) held, on January 3, 2022, a coordination meeting, via Zoom, with the Egyptian National Commission for Education, Science and Culture and the Tunisian Association for Educational Initiatives, in preparation for the launch of the second edition of the Arab Code Week (ACW).
Dr. Mohamed Jemni, Director of ICT Department, welcomed all attendees, and underlined the significant efforts undertaken by ALECSO to spread the culture of programming in Arab societies. He indicated that this event is designed to enable teachers, students, and all those interested in modern technologies to unleash their full potential, by providing an exciting learning environment that helps to teach the basics of programming for all ages, especially young people. It thus offers them wide prospects to explore new disciplines, by involving them in software competitions, enhancing their scientific and educational skills, and thus enabling them to embrace creativity, excellence, leadership and innovation.
On his part, Dr. Ibrahim Moawad, who is assigned by the Egyptian National Commission to follow up the project, expressed his delight, and that of Ms. Ghada Abdel Bari, Secretary-General of the Egyptian National Commission for Education, Culture and Science, at hosting this important event in Egypt. He thanked ALECSO for this valuable initiative, and stressed that all conditions will be provided for the success of this event.
This meeting discussed the new ACW platform as well as the executive steps to be undertaken in preparation for the second edition of the Arab Code Week :
- January 7-9, 2022 : Launch of 2nd ACW
- Jan. 15 – Feb. 15, 2022 : Teacher training activities
- February 16-20, 2022 : Sharing of experience/expertise
- February 21-28, 2022 : Parallel events.
