099+Announcement

Al-Quds Open University, QOU, is pleased to invite you to participate in the Fourth Information and Communication Technology Day (4th Annual ICT Day) to be convened on:

//__West Bank __// : Dr. Fathi Arafat Conference Hall Palestine Red Crescent Society- Headquarters Al-Quds Street- Al-Bireh- Ramallah //__ Gaza Strip: __// AL-Quds International Hotel  Omar el Mokhtar Street. Gaza City
 * Date:** Tuesday, June 29, 2010
 * Place: **
 * Keynote Speakers: **

 || **Prof. Dr. Suliman Hawamdeh, Professor and Program Coordinator, University of Oklahoma, USA****. ** Dr. Hawamdeh founded and directed the first Master of Science in Knowledge Management in Asia at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is the author and editor of several books on knowledge management including [|//Information and Knowledge Society//] and [|//Knowledge Management: Cultivating the Knowledge Professionals//]. He is the editor of a book series on [|Innovation and Knowledge Management] and the founder and editor-in-chief of the [|Journal of Information & Knowledge Management] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">one of the first refereed journals in knowledge management <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Dr. Hawamdeh was the founding chair of the International Conference on Knowledge Management <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">( <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">[|www.ickm-2010.org] ) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">as well as the Knowledge and Project Management Symposium ([|www.kipanet.org])<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">He was the founding president of the Information and Knowledge Management Society (iKMS) from 1998-2003. iKMS is a non profit organization aimed at serving information and knowledge Management professionals //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">. //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">See further: //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> [] //<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> || <span style="color: slategray; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> || **Dr. Imad AL-Khatib, Secretary General, Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (PALAST).**<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Dr. Imad is an associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering and Technology of the Palestine Polytechnic University. He is the Secretary General of Palestine Academy for Science and Technology (PALAST). He initiated and lead several projects in the ICT fields within the EU funding framework programs 5, 6 and 7, starting with the Euro-Med joint program “enhancing EMS in Industrial premises using Information Technology in 2003-2005, Promoting Mediterranean Information Society (MED-IST) in 2007-2009, and currently the establishment of the EU-MED ICT Research Network and a harmonized ICT Policy (Join-Med) which is funded Bythe EU FP7. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">See Further : //<span style="font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';">[|www.palestineacademy.org] // <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Verdana','sans-serif';"> ||
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> This gathering intends to highlight the need for ICT at Palestinian academic institutions, demonstrate some of the accomplishments in this field both at QOU and other institutions, and brings more interaction and foster cooperation with other universities, private and public sectors. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">We highly appreciate your presence and contribution to this event. We also welcome participants who would like to exhibit their own products. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> For event ** REGISTRATION ** and more information, please visit the following links: <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] (English) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> (Arabic) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">For further inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us on the following address:
 * //__ Please note that number of exhibitions is limited. __//**

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> //** Telephone: **//// +972 2 2964571/2/3 Ext. 168, 140 // //** Fax **//// : +972 2 2964995 // <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-style: normal;"> //** Gaza: **// //** Contact Name: **//// Mr. Fadi Naser // //** Telephone: **//// +972 8 2826344, 8 2828336 // // Ext. 219 // //** Fax: **//// + 972 8 2881851 //
 * West Bank:**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">Contact Name **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt;">: //Mr. Mahmoud Hawamdeh//