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[00:00:11] companies and the state in
[00:00:18] Welcome, dear viewers, to
[00:00:25] call to keep pace with tools that youth and its strategic this news hour, which we begin with a summary of the most important news. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Asaad Al-Shaiban, made a phone call with
[00:00:29] the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
[00:00:32] Prince Faisal bin Farhan,
[00:00:35] outcomes of this during which he reviewed the latest regional developments. Minister
[00:00:38] Al-Shaiban affirmed the full solidarity
[00:00:40] have started working on of the Syrian Arab Republic with the Kingdom of
[00:00:46] websites that help we only need people Saudi Arabia in confronting So verifying these the increasing targeting by the Houthi militia of civilian facilities,
[00:00:49] stressing that the security of the Kingdom is an integral
[00:00:52] part of the security of Syria and the region. He also
[00:00:55] offered his sincere condolences for the victims of the targeting of King
[00:00:59] Khalid International Airport in
[00:01:03] engineers who start
[00:01:04] this news hour with Riyadh.
[00:01:07] data science, engineers in The Speaker of the People's Assembly, Abdul Hamid Al-Awak, discussed the competencies
[00:01:10] of the Constitutional and Legislative Committee and its work during
[00:01:14] a meeting with its members in the presence of the majority of the committee's members
[00:01:18] and under the chairmanship of Abdul Nasser Al-Houshan.
[00:01:20] According to what the People's Assembly published
[00:01:25] delay in on its official platforms, the committee is responsible, according to the council's internal
[00:01:28] system, for studying
[00:01:31] the employee at the same time. the extent of compatibility of draft laws, proposals, treaties,
[00:01:35] and international
[00:01:36] than having something built from agreements with the constitutional declaration.
[00:01:39] It also stated that the committee's competencies include
[00:01:42] the legislative drafting
[00:01:44] context does this meeting of draft laws and their proposals, and reviewing
[00:01:47] the quality of laws, in addition to studying the amendment
[00:01:51] of the internal system and preparing a code
[00:01:55] strong hub of parliamentary conduct and members'
[00:01:56] to at least affairs.
[00:02:05] that is considered The Syrian Petroleum Company
[00:02:08] revealed the presence of 15 tankers
[00:02:11] loaded with petroleum derivatives in
[00:02:14] waiting areas to complete entry
[00:02:19] the issue can and discharge procedures through Syrian terminals and ports, including six
[00:02:24] after the completion of diesel tankers and nine gasoline tankers. The company explained that
[00:02:28] these supplies come within continuous efforts
[00:02:31] to secure the needs of the local market
[00:02:35] the digital transformation sector and enhance the availability of petroleum
[00:02:37] derivatives.
[00:02:42] The Minister of Administrative Development, Muhammad
[00:02:46] Al-Sakkaf, discussed with the Minister of Education and Instruction, Muhammad Abdul
[00:02:49] Rahman Turk, the preparations for launching
[00:02:52] a new phase of the teacher recruitment
[00:02:55] competition in additional governorates to fill
[00:02:59] educational vacancies and secure the necessary
[00:03:02] staff for schools according to actual
[00:03:05] needs. The meeting also discussed accelerating
[00:03:08] the procedures for integrating teachers and rotating surplus staff.
[00:03:12] The two
[00:03:15] and ethics alongside ministries launched the first phase of the competition last September
[00:03:19] to fill more than 18,000
[00:03:22] educational and instructional vacancies in rural Damascus,
[00:03:27] to serve citizens in Aleppo, and Daraa, with subsequent phases to include other governorates.
[00:03:31] اخرى
[00:03:35] A delegation from the Ministry of Emergency
[00:03:38] and Disaster Management participated in the 12th meeting of the Arab Partnership
[00:03:42] for Disaster Risk Reduction held in the Tunisian
[00:03:46] their lives, but this capital, with the participation of
[00:03:48] conditions of representatives from Arab countries and regional and international organizations, with the aim
[00:03:53] digital transformation in of enhancing coordination and developing mechanisms for disaster
[00:03:56] response. This comes within the efforts
[00:03:59] to develop a multi-hazard
[00:04:01] or this early warning system of Communications is at the forefront in this the country, at and raise
[00:04:04] preparedness to reduce
[00:04:05] intelligence technologies in their human modern technologies and artificial and material losses, especially
[00:04:09] after activating the European
[00:04:12] to work to bring this Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in universities, in daily life platform in Syria to enhance
[00:04:15] monitoring, analysis,
[00:04:20] the establishment of data centers depends on cares about and forecasting capabilities for severe
[00:04:22] electricity and depends on say. It is a transition from weather phenomena.
[00:04:25] That concludes the summary, and now to our news
[00:04:28] dilapidated in hour.
[00:04:31] Syria is also moving in this
[00:04:42] Welcome, dear viewers, welcome once again to this
[00:04:46] news hour, which we begin from the horizons
[00:04:50] In the experiences of many combined of digital and developmental transformation in
[00:04:51] in modern technology Syria, where President Ahmed
[00:04:54] Al-Shara, during his meeting
[00:04:56] important points that with a group of
[00:04:56] a culture at experts and specialists in
[00:04:58] the beginning to deal with technology and innovation, affirmed that
[00:05:02] building the Syria of the future
[00:05:04] any government employee and any employee in
[00:05:04] Authority depends on attracting distinguished Syrian talents abroad
[00:05:07] and benefiting from the opportunity
[00:05:10] of starting with a modern digital
[00:05:13] infrastructure from scratch. President
[00:05:16] Al-Shara also stressed that the next
[00:05:18] five years represent the cornerstone
[00:05:22] for the future of the state, so that
[00:05:25] Syria becomes a regional center for digital
[00:05:28] services and innovation, relying on the energy,
[00:05:31] rather the energies, of its
[00:05:34] location, with an urgent this technical
[00:05:38] development with an ethical
[00:05:41] and value system that protects the awareness
[00:05:44] of future generations. The most important
[00:05:47] meeting and the most important statements
[00:05:50] will be discussed in our news hour.
[00:05:54] Welcome.
[00:05:58] Hello.
[00:06:12] Our morale rises a little when we see you, the sons
[00:06:16] of Syria who were abroad and succeeded there, and tried to transfer
[00:06:20] the experience of success to the inside. So
[00:06:23] this Syria will, after God Almighty, depend
[00:06:25] heavily on the people who gained experience from outside and had
[00:06:29] a good opportunity.
[00:06:32] So Syria has a great opportunity.
[00:06:35] Let's talk to His Excellency the Minister. First,
[00:06:38] our geographical location. Second, that we don't have a digital infrastructure, unfortunately,
[00:06:42] in Syria. So this helps to bring in the latest
[00:06:46] advancements in the world. So it's better
[00:06:49] scratch and reaching
[00:06:51] generations that are average or weak and replacing it.
[00:06:55] This incurs very high costs.
[00:06:58] So our geographical location is very good. You know there is a huge opportunity in Syria
[00:07:02] and rebuilding from scratch. So this is very good because
[00:07:06] we have the challenge of the first five
[00:07:09] years. So it contains the foundations on which the future
[00:07:13] of the state will be built. So if it is built correctly, it will certainly
[00:07:16] continue for a long time.
[00:07:20] And the most important thing we are talking about today when we talk about reconstruction
[00:07:24] is that digital infrastructure is always attached
[00:07:27] to it in all government institutions, in every building, even
[00:07:31] in residential buildings, even in everything, digital life is entering
[00:07:35] all details of life, as you know.
[00:07:39] So this in itself indicates that there is a great opportunity for
[00:07:43] a wide market like the emerging
[00:07:47] Syrian market. So it has good expertise, human resources,
[00:07:50] people who are willing to learn, and at the same
[00:07:53] time, there is a great opportunity for reconstruction. And successful
[00:07:56] investment is always in countries that are in the process of building
[00:08:00] and development. In self-sufficient countries, competition becomes difficult
[00:08:03] and the possibility of work is limited. However, every
[00:08:07] country has stages of building, and it reaches
[00:08:10] a peak after 10-15 years, then it may decline
[00:08:12] or somewhat collapse, and growth becomes very slow because
[00:08:16] the market is largely saturated.
[00:08:18] We also need something
[00:08:22] important, which is the presence of values
[00:08:27] the expansion of the digital landscape, given that social media had
[00:08:31] an important aspect and also had some negative aspects
[00:08:35] and somewhat negatively affected the awareness
[00:08:38] of young people, and that it is a source of a lot of reception.
[00:08:42] And sometimes it exceeds the capabilities
[00:08:46] of humans in the volume of information that is presented to the human
[00:08:49] mind daily, perhaps more than
[00:08:52] what was presented to the philosophers of ancient
[00:08:55] times throughout
[00:08:58] also has negative consequences because it leads to unfocused
[00:09:02] information, which results in
[00:09:05] semi-educated people, so he knows everything but is not specialized in
[00:09:09] anything. So
[00:09:12] it is very necessary to keep pace with
[00:09:15] this. The whole world today is trying to rely on digitalization and data
[00:09:19] analysis and processing,
[00:09:22] etc. So it has negative aspects, but because it is the philosophy
[00:09:26] of human development,
[00:09:29] it always goes through a stage, and we are now in a transitional stage, let's
[00:09:34] purely human tools to more
[00:09:37] intelligent and digital
[00:09:40] tools. So the sea is very vast, as you know, its field
[00:09:44] is wide, and Syria is very qualified not
[00:09:47] only to serve it with providing
[00:09:50] digital services, it is qualified to be a hub
[00:09:53] itself, and its location allows for this. It has
[00:09:57] strong human resources, it has a large
[00:10:01] youth age group, more than 50% of the Syrian people are under
[00:10:03] 25 years old. So this helps
[00:10:06] a lot. Previously, information
[00:10:09] always needed an official platform to reach
[00:10:13] people. It needed a newspaper,
[00:10:16] television, a conference, a university.
[00:10:20] So the means of issuing information needed
[00:10:23] official or university
[00:10:27] platforms. So there was no one. So here there was verification of
[00:10:31] the credibility of the information, of
[00:10:34] the integrity of the information. Yes, there are procedures for the integrity
[00:10:37] of knowledge, whether it is reaching correctly or incorrectly.
[00:10:40] And the oversight of it is also
[00:10:43] by specialized people. Today, information has become widespread,
[00:10:47] meaning that anyone can access information,
[00:10:50] anyone can issue information. So
[00:10:53] is it being issued correctly or incorrectly? God knows. So from here,
[00:10:57] the risk begins. So verifying the integrity
[00:11:01] of information, because
[00:11:03] social media has also given
[00:11:06] a platform to all people so that anyone can give anything.
[00:11:11] issues is, in one way or another, has a negative
[00:11:15] aspect because there is no regulating
[00:11:18] body for checking the integrity of this information,
[00:11:21] whether it is sound, correct, or incorrect.
[00:11:25] So, dear viewers, we will discuss
[00:11:29] our esteemed guests, Dr. Jihad Al-Atassi,
[00:11:32] who is a consultant in digital transformation technologies
[00:11:36] and internet technologies. He joins us from Istanbul, and from
[00:11:39] Berlin, we have Professor Abdul Aziz Al-Doudi, a technical
[00:11:43] and cybersecurity expert. And from
[00:11:46] Amman, we have technical expert Yahya Al-Subaih. Welcome, my dear
[00:11:50] guests, all of you. May I start
[00:11:53] with you, Dr. Jihad?
[00:11:55] How do you view the meeting
[00:11:59] held by President Ahmed Al-Shara with
[00:12:03] experts in the field of technology and digital
[00:12:06] transformation, and in what
[00:12:09] fall in this phase of the reconstruction
[00:12:12] phase?
[00:12:16] First of all, thank you Mr. Mohammed for this
[00:12:19] hosting, and I thank
[00:12:23] the news channel. Regarding this
[00:12:26] topic, it is a topic
[00:12:30] one of the basic ones for the new
[00:12:34] Syria. Digital transformation
[00:12:37] has become a very simple part
[00:12:41] of other automation processes
[00:12:44] and other artificial intelligence agents
[00:12:49] digital transformation. Yes, the idea is to
[00:12:52] start from where others started,
[00:12:56] to start from where
[00:12:58] others end,
[00:13:02] or where others work,
[00:13:05] whether in regional countries or other
[00:13:09] countries. Therefore, we must
[00:13:13] start a single national
[00:13:16] strategy for all ministries, for all
[00:13:19] government departments, for the private sector
[00:13:21] and the government sector
[00:13:25] and also for businesses. Therefore, this topic is
[00:13:29] a very important topic and we must
[00:13:31] focus
[00:13:34] on this topic, just as focus is placed on reconstruction
[00:13:36] or other
[00:13:38] issues.
[00:13:41] Yes, Professor Abdul Aziz, today we stand
[00:13:44] before a new stage, a comprehensive
[00:13:48] construction stage. How do you read the role of the technical
[00:13:51] sector? Is it a sector that perhaps
[00:13:56] is considered a main driver
[00:14:00] and a backbone for the vision of the new Syria's
[00:14:03] economy?
[00:14:06] Welcome, good morning to you, esteemed guests,
[00:14:10] and viewers. First, when
[00:14:13] President Ahmed Al-Shara
[00:14:17] meets with a Syrian technical
[00:14:20] delegation, the matter does not stop
[00:14:23] at technical services and updating
[00:14:26] resources and rehabilitating and restructuring Syrian
[00:14:29] institutions, but extends to a national
[00:14:32] and international strategy. For example, in America,
[00:14:35] the American President pays attention to this sector,
[00:14:39] and the German Chancellor also
[00:14:42] supercomputers.
[00:14:46] Saudi Arabia has been moving since 2021 and also has
[00:14:49] a national policy that extended for four or five
[00:14:52] years and bore fruit.
[00:14:56] direction with a clear vision, and we
[00:15:00] must articulate the points that
[00:15:03] we have. Artificial intelligence, digital
[00:15:07] commerce, digital transformation, digital media, or
[00:15:11] industrial automation, all
[00:15:16] in the strategic vision for the next
[00:15:20] four years. And we, as Syrian
[00:15:23] citizens, when we hear that there are investments, I mean, the Syrian
[00:15:26] Investment
[00:15:29] yesterday had a meeting with
[00:15:32] 22 companies, most of which
[00:15:35] are American, in advanced
[00:15:38] artificial intelligence and modern technology on the regional and international levels. And also when there is
[00:15:41] a national technological path issued by His Excellency
[00:15:45] the President by Decision 183,
[00:15:48] and also when we have a meeting with a technical
[00:15:51] delegation, this means that
[00:15:54] when there is also the establishment of an advanced city in
[00:15:57] Hassia with a huge amount of water
[00:16:00] drawn so that we have a real nerve center and we have
[00:16:04] data centers, but for clarification, today
[00:16:08] when we use artificial intelligence in Syria and integrate
[00:16:11] it with administrative skills to reduce
[00:16:14] the burden and complete transactions more
[00:16:18] efficiently, this does not mean that
[00:16:21] who are good at dealing with artificial intelligence. No, today
[00:16:24] we are at a stage where we hope
[00:16:28] that Syria will not consume these products but export
[00:16:32] them to other countries as digital services and solutions. Therefore,
[00:16:35] today we need a clear and national vision. We need
[00:16:41] programming, engineers in cybersecurity, engineers in
[00:16:45] or consultants and specialists in
[00:16:48] governance sciences and also
[00:16:51] cloud storage and so on. All
[00:16:54] of them combined with physics, mathematics,
[00:16:58] and algorithms and developing them within
[00:17:00] Syria means that the technological ship will carry
[00:17:04] if there is a clear
[00:17:07] vision and goals, and these meetings
[00:17:11] and understandings have crystallized into real
[00:17:14] projects that benefit citizens and startups,
[00:17:16] then God willing, they will be exported by the efforts of Syrians
[00:17:20] and their expertise. And we must not only
[00:17:23] transfer knowledge from other countries from Syrians, but rather localize
[00:17:27] knowledge, and localizing knowledge begins
[00:17:30] with educational curricula. It begins
[00:17:34] with the return of well-known academies.
[00:17:41] And when developing the digital infrastructure in
[00:17:44] Syria, the former
[00:17:47] regime only had
[00:17:51] an internet cable that came from the Mediterranean from the nineties,
[00:17:55] and it is very old. So we do not burden
[00:17:58] the current administration with the burden of the past stage, but rather
[00:18:02] there is a clear policy that keeps pace with modern
[00:18:05] countries to move forward and save the technical reality in Syria.
[00:18:09] And President Al-Shara also mentioned during
[00:18:11] his meeting that social
[00:18:15] media gives a wide space for misleading
[00:18:18] information, and we must also differentiate between
[00:18:21] misleading information and false information and
[00:18:24] cybercrime and ethical crime related
[00:18:28] to artificial intelligence. Today, in Syria, nearly
[00:18:32] two years have passed since the liberation until today. There were
[00:18:36] wide initiatives, there was a tangible impact in Syrian
[00:18:39] institutions due to their connection with digital transformation and also
[00:18:43] the gradual use of artificial intelligence. But unfortunately,
[00:18:46] there are no legislations, there are
[00:18:49] no legal experts, there is no
[00:18:53] transfer and localization of knowledge and dealing
[00:18:55] with ethics, I mean, dealing
[00:18:59] with digital tools that can be obtained
[00:19:03] ready-made, as the doctor mentioned.
[00:19:06] I mean, we start where others ended, and this is where
[00:19:10] the real challenge lies. Yes, and the matter perhaps needs
[00:19:13] multiple stages, Professor Abdul Aziz, please stay with me.
[00:19:17] To Professor Yahya Subaih. Digital
[00:19:21] transformation experiences in most
[00:19:23] countries come in
[00:19:26] stability. However, Syria today begins this
[00:19:30] experience in parallel with the reconstruction
[00:19:33] phase. The question here is, what distinguishes
[00:19:36] Syria
[00:19:39] synchronicity for Syria with the presence
[00:19:42] of exceptional opportunities that may not be available to other
[00:19:45] countries? First, good morning
[00:19:49] to you and to all the followers
[00:19:52] and viewers and to all attendees.
[00:19:55] Regarding the issue of digital transformation, we
[00:19:59] are talking about an environment
[00:20:02] that, unfortunately, is very
[00:20:06] the former regime. There was
[00:20:08] no entry of technology
[00:20:12] into any government centers. There are many problems
[00:20:15] that I expect us to face in building digital transformation,
[00:20:18] especially compared to countries that started digital
[00:20:22] transformation from a state of stability.
[00:20:27] Arab and European countries, we
[00:20:31] need
[00:20:35] technology. To deal with digital transformation,
[00:20:41] private companies must have
[00:20:44] the knowledge.
[00:20:47] I call it literacy.
[00:20:51] And then we start teaching and developing
[00:20:54] them to work according to the policies and
[00:20:57] strategies set by
[00:21:01] digital transformation and using technology to serve
[00:21:04] citizens and serve society. We currently need
[00:21:08] in Syria many
[00:21:11] we can now use artificial intelligence to develop
[00:21:15] quickly, and they will also be tools that help
[00:21:18] citizens solve their daily needs without
[00:21:22] the trouble of going to service centers. This
[00:21:26] is very good. We notice that some ministries and some institutions
[00:21:30] digital transformation. They have started launching
[00:21:33] applications. They have started launching
[00:21:36] with booking, inquiries, and communication. But we
[00:21:40] hope that there will be a unified
[00:21:44] platform, like the experiences of neighboring countries to Syria, such as Jordan
[00:21:47] and Turkey. What do we need, Professor Yahya? If we go
[00:21:51] to most government
[00:21:53] institutions, we will find that paper-based
[00:21:56] transactions are still present and strong in most
[00:21:59] institutions. There is probably no electronic
[00:22:02] archive, no electronic transactions.
[00:22:05] Most employees perform their work by writing
[00:22:08] with paper and pen. And this actually causes
[00:22:12] perhaps some
[00:22:15] completing transactions, and this also accumulates pressure
[00:22:18] on the applicant and also on
[00:22:21] Today, as you mentioned, there are signs of
[00:22:25] a breakthrough in this regard.
[00:22:28] Work on creating applications is what
[00:22:31] the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and the Ministry
[00:22:34] of Interior have done to facilitate
[00:22:37] transactions for applicants and employees. Is that
[00:22:41] enough? What do we need
[00:22:44] most today
[00:22:46] get rid of the system of paper
[00:22:50] bureaucracy known in state
[00:22:52] institutions?
[00:22:54] I go back to what I said, it is the culture of the citizen, and we need
[00:22:58] to unite in collecting these efforts. I
[00:23:02] know that every ministry has its own privacy
[00:23:05] and its own policies, but in stable
[00:23:09] countries, they always work on creating one application or
[00:23:12] two at most for complete
[00:23:16] uses, for all government services. And here we are talking
[00:23:20] about uniting the efforts of the state in
[00:23:25] in particular, and in the transformation sector in the cybersecurity
[00:23:28] sector to unite these
[00:23:31] efforts into a national
[00:23:33] institution that takes over the transformation for all
[00:23:37] we are talking about great
[00:23:40] comfort for citizens and we are talking about
[00:23:44] relief also for the concerned
[00:23:47] authorities, meaning they will have focus. I have
[00:23:50] an application that I focus on in the field of digital
[00:23:54] protection, in the field of information, in the field of development and using artificial
[00:23:58] have many applications
[00:24:01] and many branches. I see many citizens
[00:24:05] complaining that they need six or seven applications today. Yes, the Ministry
[00:24:08] of Interior, the Ministry of Communications, even the Ministry
[00:24:11] of Information. So we need to unite and to
[00:24:15] raise the digital culture of government
[00:24:18] employees. We need our existing expertise
[00:24:22] to go to these governments, to hold
[00:24:25] sessions, to discuss, to hold intensive
[00:24:28] meetings with employees and not with senior management. We
[00:24:32] will. And in this regard, Professor Yahya, allow me to return to Dr.
[00:24:36] Jihad Al-Atassi. Dr. Jihad,
[00:24:38] perhaps we are in dire need today to keep pace with
[00:24:44] least to race against time
[00:24:48] and be on par with countries that
[00:24:51] primarily rely on
[00:24:55] institutions, in schools,
[00:24:58] completely today. As we mentioned,
[00:25:02] we are perhaps starting from scratch after
[00:25:06] the fall of the former regime, which worked to keep Syrians
[00:25:10] ignorant and put
[00:25:14] the country in perhaps the bottom
[00:25:16] ranks of countries. Today, we are in this phase, entering
[00:25:20] a new phase of digital transformation. What do we need
[00:25:23] most, and does the infrastructure
[00:25:27] today in Syria allow
[00:25:30] us to keep pace with this transformation
[00:25:32] that the region is witnessing?
[00:25:35] Thank you for the question. The truth is
[00:25:38] that what the two esteemed guests pointed
[00:25:42] out, there are several
[00:25:46] must be included in the national strategy for transformation.
[00:25:50] For the new Syrian state, there must
[00:25:53] be one national strategy
[00:25:56] for all ministries and all
[00:25:59] government departments, and it should also include the private sector
[00:26:03] and industry. Now, regarding
[00:26:06] digital transformation or the mechanisms of transformation, there
[00:26:10] are obstacles and challenges, including
[00:26:12] what is called resistance to change, and there
[00:26:16] is resistance
[00:26:19] to development. Therefore, we must
[00:26:22] begin in this strategy by including
[00:26:26] within the strategy studies
[00:26:28] about
[00:26:30] the Syrian person who wants to use
[00:26:34] digital applications
[00:26:37] or digital technologies, whether they are applications
[00:26:41] on their phone or on their computer, or even
[00:26:44] devices and equipment. Qualified personnel
[00:26:47] must be trained,
[00:26:50] whether the ordinary user or the service
[00:26:53] provider as an employee in a government
[00:26:57] sector or other or
[00:26:59] even the ordinary citizen.
[00:27:02] They must be guided or directed
[00:27:06] in a reasonable
[00:27:08] way to use those applications. Now,
[00:27:12] almost 90% or more,
[00:27:16] even 100%, use WhatsApp,
[00:27:19] one of the applications,
[00:27:22] whether educated or uneducated.
[00:27:25] Therefore, having the
[00:27:28] device in their hands qualifies
[00:27:33] them to use
[00:27:34] the new technical
[00:27:37] mechanisms. Yes, regarding infrastructure, there must
[00:27:40] be strong infrastructure from the electricity
[00:27:44] sector, from the telecommunications sector, from the energy
[00:27:47] sector,
[00:27:50] from fiber optic networks. And
[00:27:53] now Syria will truly be a very
[00:27:58] in the region, not
[00:28:00] only for the northern and eastern Mediterranean
[00:28:04] region, but also for the Arab region
[00:28:06] and beyond.
[00:28:09] We must understand this strategy and
[00:28:13] work to implement it and set
[00:28:16] its goals clearly. The truth is,
[00:28:21] benefit from a lot of expertise available
[00:28:25] inside Syria and outside Syria in setting that strategy.
[00:28:28] Professor Abdul Aziz, if we put what we have achieved
[00:28:34] over two years on a scale or
[00:28:37] an indicator, what stage have we reached
[00:28:40] so far in digital transformation?
[00:28:44] I think when
[00:28:47] we have used artificial intelligence tools to
[00:28:51] improve administration and transactions and launch electronic
[00:28:53] programs, we have passed
[00:28:57] the stage of design thinking or design
[00:29:00] This means it closes the problem and
[00:29:03] creates a real simulation of it on the ground. For example, the delay
[00:29:07] in paper transactions. These small problems are being closed.
[00:29:10] Is the delay due to poor communication, due to lack
[00:29:14] of archiving, due to the large number of documents,
[00:29:17] or due to, in other words, pressure on resources or
[00:29:21] pressure on employees or on a specific area?
[00:29:24] So there is good work being done by the Ministry of Interior in this regard
[00:29:29] legal and civil transactions. But
[00:29:33] if we look at the balance, as you mentioned,
[00:29:37] or the planning
[00:29:39] that has happened in the last year and eight months or year
[00:29:43] and nine months, we find that there are initiatives and understandings
[00:29:46] that will, God willing, turn into real projects. And the Ministry of Communications, when it discusses
[00:29:50] communication systems, when there is a study
[00:29:53] to establish smart cities, and when there is,
[00:29:57] yes, the Ministry
[00:30:00] field, isn't that right? Yes,
[00:30:03] today we need a new cable so that
[00:30:06] we can send more data and also download
[00:30:09] more data. But on two fronts, we need
[00:30:14] cable, but we also need national
[00:30:18] equipment inside Syria, as
[00:30:24] water and depends on specialists even in cooling and heating,
[00:30:28] and depends on construction engineers and others so that we can provide
[00:30:32] energy and these centers are in the areas
[00:30:35] attributed to them, meaning like Deir ez-Zor, like Hasya, when water
[00:30:39] is drawn, like the areas of the Syrian coast and so on. We
[00:30:42] have in Syria only one data center in
[00:30:46] Damascus, far from
[00:30:50] the other areas. But when the communications
[00:30:53] infrastructure develops and we
[00:30:57] have internet, we forget