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Arabsat Announces Virtual General Assembly

Meetings

Arab Satellite Communications Organization - Arabsat - holds the
43rd session of its General Assembly meetings with the presence
of the Honorable Arab Ministers of Telecommunications and
Information and Heads of Delegations. It was planned to have
the General Assembly meetings of Arabsat in the Kingdom of
Jordan under the kind patronage of His Majesty King Abdullah II,
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, but due to the global
circumstances of Corona pandemic and the inability to travel, it
was decided to hold the Board and the General assembly meetings
virtually in coordination with the Jordanian administration.
In his message to the Excellencies Ministers and Heads of
Delegations, His Excellency Engineer / Muthanna Hamdan Al-
Gharaibeh, Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship in
Jordan, expressed his best wishes of safety to all Arab countries
and the world, hoping to meet in the Hashemite Kingdom of
Jordan in the coming years, God willing. Eng. Khaled bin Ahmed
Balkheyour, President & CEO of Arabsat, said, “On behalf of all
Arabsat employees, I extend my sincere thanks to His Majesty
King Abdullah II, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, for
his gracious patronage to Arabsat General Assembly, where His
Majesty used ,since Arabsat foundation, to support, host and
sponsor many of its media & technical activities" "The most report of the board of directors, and to approve Arabsat financial
important item of the General Assembly meetings is to discuss the final account in addition to its new projects " he added.

Etisalat Empowers 1 Million UAE Students to

Support e-Learning

Etisalat announced that it enabled at least one million students in of Education and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA)
the UAE to access distance learning websites and platforms using - to over 12,000 students whose families do not have Internet at
its advanced network, with more than 10 million mobile subscribers home. Etisalat also provided access to 9 apps and platforms,
enjoying free browsing to over 800 websites related to education, allowing visual and audio communications: Google Hangouts,
health and safety. To support and enable distance learning, free Microsoft Teams, Blackboard, Zoom, Skype for Business, Cisco
mobile data was made available - in coordination with the Ministry Webex, Avaya Spaces, BlueJeans and Slack on Its fixed and mobile
network in collaboration with the TRA. These are part of a bundle
of Initiatives to support the education sector, ensuring a smooth
functioning of remote learning processes. These initiatives stem
from Etisalat's corporate social responsibility strategy to utilize its
resources and capabilities, empower the educational sector with
state-of-the-art technology, and ensure seamless and effective
connectivity across all learning platforms. Keeping in line with its
strategy 'Driving the digital future to empower societies', Etisalat
is committed to support distance learning initiatives in the UAE
following the ministry's decision to extend distance learning until
the end of the current academic year. Etisalat will continue to offer
all the connectivity tools and services students and teachers need,
including the fastest fixed broadband and mobile network In the
region, to ensure seamless continuity of the country’s education
curriculum.

12 APRIL 2020