Kuwaiti academic gains G3ict membership

– Dr. Zeinab Al-Me’raj, Assistant Professor at Information Science Department at College of Life Sciences, affiliated to Kuwait University (KU), gained membership of the Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict).

KU said in a press statement on Sunday that Dr. Al-Me’raj’s representation of the university in the (G3ict) boosts the approach, in digital environment, toward achieving rights of people with disabilities in Kuwait and countries of the region.

G3ict is a global initiative that was launched back in 2006 via the United Nations’s Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development in cooperation with the General Secretariat of the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), it added.

This membership will offer Dr. Al-Me’raj an opportunity to increase awareness of the ability to reach the commination information technology at the national and international levels, as well as supporting policies’ makers, it added.

It will also help in facilitating and exchanging good practices and innovation, as well as enhancing interoperability on a global scale. It will further contribute to boosting skills of reaching others, it said.

Furthermore, the statement quoted the Acting Head of the Information Sciences Department at the College of Life Sciences, Prof. Ahmad Al-Lafi, as saying Dr. Al-Meraj’s membership is a great achievement, taking into consideration her distinguished contributions and researches.

Dr. Al-Lafi expressed his deepest thanks and congratulations for Dr. Al-Me’raj for this accomplishment, wishing her further progress and success.

Dr. Al-Me’raj won two international certificates of expertise in the Human Computer Interaction field, which allows her to be the first expert in Kuwait in that domain, and one of the elite professionals in the field in the Gulf region.

Source: Kuwait News Agency

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