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TRA Concludes the 1st Edition of the Winter Innovation Camp

The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) concluded
the 1st edition of its virtual winter innovation camp for UAE citizens
and GCC citizens residing in the country, by honoring the winners
and best projects owners, in the presence of H.E. Mohammad
Al Kitbi, Acting Deputy Director General for the Support Service
Sector, the winning students and their parents. The winter camp
aimed to prepare youth and leverage the winter break to master
robotics skills and artificial intelligence techniques, with a focus
on ICT. This camp complemented the latest edition of TRA summer
innovation camp, which was held virtually and in which students
were introduced to the various electronic parts and tools that are
essential in electronics industry. They learned how to equip a
home technical lab that contains many tools, including sensors,
control and electronic circuits, in addition to understanding and
installing the robot parts in the correct sequence, and learning the
basics of programming and how to use it to control the robot, as
well as other skills. In his speech at the ceremony, H.E. Mohammad
Al Kitbi, Acting Deputy Director General for the Support Service
Sector, said: “We aimed, through the winter camp, to leverage time
and introduce students to future sciences, enabling them to deal
with the latest technologies, and learn about robotics and artificial
intelligence professionally and scientifically. The exceptional
circumstances that the world is witnessing did not prevent us from
organizing this camp, as we overcame them by taking advantage
of the advanced ICT infrastructure and technologies that the UAE
provides for all its citizens.” H.E. Al Kitbi added: “Today I meet with
you with full pride of the enthusiasm we have witnessed among
our children in acquiring new skills. With this winter camp, we add
a new chapter to our continuous work in building a brighter future
for our children, a future that will be managed by an educated
generation capable of comprehending the vocabulary and
concepts of science, dealing with it and leveraging it in the service
of its homeland and society. Today, we stand just steps away from strategies depends greatly on the people of this country. The next
celebrating the golden jubilee of our glorious union, and as we fifty start with you, you are the hope and the goal, you are the bet
live in the next fifty, we confirm that the success of our plans and of our wise leadership and your honorable parents.”

Bangladesh to Export Bandwidth to Saudi Telecom

The Bangladesh Submarine Cable between the two parties. In this regard, one, SEA-ME-WE 5, in 2017. BSCCL is a
Company Limited (BSCCL) is set to export Mr. Mashiur said that the agreement will core telecommunications service provider
600 Gbps (gigabits per second) bandwidth be signed in March next. Both parties are and international submarine cable
worth US$3.6 million to Saudi Telecom. now finalizing the details of the agreement. operator of Bangladesh. The company
The capacity will be transferred from The deal will help reduce the operation and emerged in July 2008 as a public limited
the western part of the core cable of the maintenance cost of BSCCL on SMW-5 company. The Bangladesh government
SMW-5 submarine cable to Yanbu in Saudi submarine cable, according to a company has 73.84 per cent stakes in the company,
Arabia through Marseille in France, BSCCL release. Bangladesh got connected with institutional investors have 11.58 per cent,
Managing Director Mashiur Rahman told the first undersea cable, South East Asia foreign investors 2.72 per cent and general
the FE. The transfer will be implemented - Middle East - Western Europe 4 (SEA- investors 11.86 per cent stakes.
following the signing of a formal agreement ME-WE 4), in 2006 and with the second

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