During his visit to Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Society

Jordan?s ICT Minister Calls for Promoting the Society?s Initiative throughout the Kingdom

The Minister emphasized the significance of utlizing ICT tools specially in remote areas due to its direct effect on accelerating social and economic growth and development


AMMAN --- July 26, 2009 --- HE Eng. Basem Rousan, Minister of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), visited on July 22 2009 Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Society (TAG-Knowledge) headquarters.

The Minister emphasized the significance of utlizing ICT tools specially in remote areas due to its direct effect on accelerating social and economic growth and development.

In this regard, Rousan commended TAG-Knowledge?s role in enhancing the university students? skills and experiences through research and studies available on the Internet in addition to stegnthening social responsibility among them calling for exchanging expertise between the exisiting knowledge entities in Jordan and TAG-Knowledge.

Meanwhile, Mr. Tareq Hammad, TAG-Knowledge manager, welcomed the Minister?s visit which represents cooperation between the public and private sectors in serving the higher education sector in Jordan.

Hammad revealed TAG-Knowledge?s tendency to set up other branches for the Society in the Al-Yarmouk and Mu?ta universities.
Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Knowledge Society (TAG-Knowledge) is the latest initiative taken by Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Organization ? the Arab organization for global professional services and the regional professional leader with 71 offices in 29 countries & over 2000 professionals.
Targeting the Arab youth and striving at the aid of human resource development, TAG-Knowledge aims to grant modern tools and the latest in the information and communication technology field. Its mission being the delivery of a larger number of well-rounded local professionals, with the competitive edge resulting from international exposure, all provided by a one-stop-hub under the support of TAG-Org experts.

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