The Digital School, one of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, and the Emirates Red Crescent (ERC) signed a strategic partnership to establish an AED100 million ($27 million) digital school fund.
The fund is to support the Digital School’s programmes financially and achieve its goals of providing smart and flexible distance education in countries affected by disasters and crises.
The fund is expected to provide educational opportunities for one million students around the world.
It seeks to achieve Sustainable Development Goals and develop knowledge and skills through applications of AI and modern digital technologies in remote education.
The agreement also focuses on the two cooperating to launch the largest initiative to support digital education, allocating funding sources for the projects, enhancing the initiative’s logistical operations, and providing advanced digital education using smart solutions.
It also focuses on forming a work group to coordinate, follow up, and implement the fund’s activities and prepare and set up regulations, plans, and mechanisms.
The agreement was signed as part of the “Digital School dialogues” during the World Government Summit 2023.
The signing event was attended by Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy, and Remote Work Applications, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Digital School and Managing Director of the World Government Summit Organisation, and Dr. Hamdan Musallam Al Mazrouei, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ERC.
The strategic partnership was signed by Hamoud Abdullah Al Junaibi, ERC’s Deputy Secretary-General, and Dr. Waleed Al Ali, the Digital School Secretary-General.
Al Olama the fund will contribute to accelerating the achievement of the school’s projects.
Dr. Al Mazrouei welcomed the strategic partnership with the Digital School to facilitate smarter and more flexible remote education opportunities in countries facing challenges in the education process.
First comprehensive digital school established in the Arab region
The Digital School, which was launched in November 2020 under the directives of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, as part of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, is considered to be the first complete digital school of its kind.
It aims to empower students with digital learning options in regions that need the appropriate conditions or requirements for students to pursue their education.
It also provides a qualitative, innovative, and flexible opportunity for blended learning and distance learning, targeting less fortunate societal groups, refugees, and the displaced through modern educational content and curricula.
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