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00:00:18Welcome, dear viewers, to
00:00:25call 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
00:00:29the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
00:00:32Prince Faisal bin Farhan,
00:00:35outcomes of this during which he reviewed the latest regional developments. Minister
00:00:38Al-Shaiban affirmed the full solidarity
00:00:40have started working on of the Syrian Arab Republic with the Kingdom of
00:00:46websites that help we only need people Saudi Arabia in confronting So verifying these the increasing targeting by the Houthi militia of civilian facilities,
00:00:49stressing that the security of the Kingdom is an integral
00:00:52part of the security of Syria and the region. He also
00:00:55offered his sincere condolences for the victims of the targeting of King
00:00:59Khalid International Airport in
00:01:03engineers who start
00:01:04this news hour with Riyadh.
00:01:07data science, engineers in The Speaker of the People's Assembly, Abdul Hamid Al-Awak, discussed the competencies
00:01:10of the Constitutional and Legislative Committee and its work during
00:01:14a meeting with its members in the presence of the majority of the committee's members
00:01:18and under the chairmanship of Abdul Nasser Al-Houshan.
00:01:20According to what the People's Assembly published
00:01:25delay in on its official platforms, the committee is responsible, according to the council's internal
00:01:28system, for studying
00:01:31the employee at the same time. the extent of compatibility of draft laws, proposals, treaties,
00:01:35and international
00:01:36than having something built from agreements with the constitutional declaration.
00:01:39It also stated that the committee's competencies include
00:01:42the legislative drafting
00:01:44context does this meeting of draft laws and their proposals, and reviewing
00:01:47the quality of laws, in addition to studying the amendment
00:01:51of the internal system and preparing a code
00:01:55strong hub of parliamentary conduct and members'
00:01:56to at least affairs.
00:02:05that is considered The Syrian Petroleum Company
00:02:08revealed the presence of 15 tankers
00:02:11loaded with petroleum derivatives in
00:02:14waiting areas to complete entry
00:02:19the issue can and discharge procedures through Syrian terminals and ports, including six
00:02:24after the completion of diesel tankers and nine gasoline tankers. The company explained that
00:02:28these supplies come within continuous efforts
00:02:31to secure the needs of the local market
00:02:35the digital transformation sector and enhance the availability of petroleum
00:02:37derivatives.
00:02:42The Minister of Administrative Development, Muhammad
00:02:46Al-Sakkaf, discussed with the Minister of Education and Instruction, Muhammad Abdul
00:02:49Rahman Turk, the preparations for launching
00:02:52a new phase of the teacher recruitment
00:02:55competition in additional governorates to fill
00:02:59educational vacancies and secure the necessary
00:03:02staff for schools according to actual
00:03:05needs. The meeting also discussed accelerating
00:03:08the procedures for integrating teachers and rotating surplus staff.
00:03:12The two
00:03:15and ethics alongside ministries launched the first phase of the competition last September
00:03:19to fill more than 18,000
00:03:22educational and instructional vacancies in rural Damascus,
00:03:27to serve citizens in Aleppo, and Daraa, with subsequent phases to include other governorates.
00:03:31اخرى
00:03:35A delegation from the Ministry of Emergency
00:03:38and Disaster Management participated in the 12th meeting of the Arab Partnership
00:03:42for Disaster Risk Reduction held in the Tunisian
00:03:46their lives, but this capital, with the participation of
00:03:48conditions of representatives from Arab countries and regional and international organizations, with the aim
00:03:53digital transformation in of enhancing coordination and developing mechanisms for disaster
00:03:56response. This comes within the efforts
00:03:59to develop a multi-hazard
00:04:01or this early warning system of Communications is at the forefront in this the country, at and raise
00:04:04preparedness to reduce
00:04:05intelligence technologies in their human modern technologies and artificial and material losses, especially
00:04:09after activating the European
00:04:12to work to bring this Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in universities, in daily life platform in Syria to enhance
00:04:15monitoring, analysis,
00:04:20the establishment of data centers depends on cares about and forecasting capabilities for severe
00:04:22electricity and depends on say. It is a transition from weather phenomena.
00:04:25That concludes the summary, and now to our news
00:04:28dilapidated in hour.
00:04:31Syria is also moving in this
00:04:42Welcome, dear viewers, welcome once again to this
00:04:46news hour, which we begin from the horizons
00:04:50In the experiences of many combined of digital and developmental transformation in
00:04:51in modern technology Syria, where President Ahmed
00:04:54Al-Shara, during his meeting
00:04:56important points that with a group of
00:04:56a culture at experts and specialists in
00:04:58the beginning to deal with technology and innovation, affirmed that
00:05:02building the Syria of the future
00:05:04any government employee and any employee in
00:05:04Authority depends on attracting distinguished Syrian talents abroad
00:05:07and benefiting from the opportunity
00:05:10of starting with a modern digital
00:05:13infrastructure from scratch. President
00:05:16Al-Shara also stressed that the next
00:05:18five years represent the cornerstone
00:05:22for the future of the state, so that
00:05:25Syria becomes a regional center for digital
00:05:28services and innovation, relying on the energy,
00:05:31rather the energies, of its
00:05:34location, with an urgent this technical
00:05:38development with an ethical
00:05:41and value system that protects the awareness
00:05:44of future generations. The most important
00:05:47meeting and the most important statements
00:05:50will be discussed in our news hour.
00:05:54Welcome.
00:05:58Hello.
00:06:12Our morale rises a little when we see you, the sons
00:06:16of Syria who were abroad and succeeded there, and tried to transfer
00:06:20the experience of success to the inside. So
00:06:23this Syria will, after God Almighty, depend
00:06:25heavily on the people who gained experience from outside and had
00:06:29a good opportunity.
00:06:32So Syria has a great opportunity.
00:06:35Let's talk to His Excellency the Minister. First,
00:06:38our geographical location. Second, that we don't have a digital infrastructure, unfortunately,
00:06:42in Syria. So this helps to bring in the latest
00:06:46advancements in the world. So it's better
00:06:49scratch and reaching
00:06:51generations that are average or weak and replacing it.
00:06:55This incurs very high costs.
00:06:58So our geographical location is very good. You know there is a huge opportunity in Syria
00:07:02and rebuilding from scratch. So this is very good because
00:07:06we have the challenge of the first five
00:07:09years. So it contains the foundations on which the future
00:07:13of the state will be built. So if it is built correctly, it will certainly
00:07:16continue for a long time.
00:07:20And the most important thing we are talking about today when we talk about reconstruction
00:07:24is that digital infrastructure is always attached
00:07:27to it in all government institutions, in every building, even
00:07:31in residential buildings, even in everything, digital life is entering
00:07:35all details of life, as you know.
00:07:39So this in itself indicates that there is a great opportunity for
00:07:43a wide market like the emerging
00:07:47Syrian market. So it has good expertise, human resources,
00:07:50people who are willing to learn, and at the same
00:07:53time, there is a great opportunity for reconstruction. And successful
00:07:56investment is always in countries that are in the process of building
00:08:00and development. In self-sufficient countries, competition becomes difficult
00:08:03and the possibility of work is limited. However, every
00:08:07country has stages of building, and it reaches
00:08:10a peak after 10-15 years, then it may decline
00:08:12or somewhat collapse, and growth becomes very slow because
00:08:16the market is largely saturated.
00:08:18We also need something
00:08:22important, which is the presence of values
00:08:27the expansion of the digital landscape, given that social media had
00:08:31an important aspect and also had some negative aspects
00:08:35and somewhat negatively affected the awareness
00:08:38of young people, and that it is a source of a lot of reception.
00:08:42And sometimes it exceeds the capabilities
00:08:46of humans in the volume of information that is presented to the human
00:08:49mind daily, perhaps more than
00:08:52what was presented to the philosophers of ancient
00:08:55times throughout
00:08:58also has negative consequences because it leads to unfocused
00:09:02information, which results in
00:09:05semi-educated people, so he knows everything but is not specialized in
00:09:09anything. So
00:09:12it is very necessary to keep pace with
00:09:15this. The whole world today is trying to rely on digitalization and data
00:09:19analysis and processing,
00:09:22etc. So it has negative aspects, but because it is the philosophy
00:09:26of human development,
00:09:29it always goes through a stage, and we are now in a transitional stage, let's
00:09:34purely human tools to more
00:09:37intelligent and digital
00:09:40tools. So the sea is very vast, as you know, its field
00:09:44is wide, and Syria is very qualified not
00:09:47only to serve it with providing
00:09:50digital services, it is qualified to be a hub
00:09:53itself, and its location allows for this. It has
00:09:57strong human resources, it has a large
00:10:01youth age group, more than 50% of the Syrian people are under
00:10:0325 years old. So this helps
00:10:06a lot. Previously, information
00:10:09always needed an official platform to reach
00:10:13people. It needed a newspaper,
00:10:16television, a conference, a university.
00:10:20So the means of issuing information needed
00:10:23official or university
00:10:27platforms. So there was no one. So here there was verification of
00:10:31the credibility of the information, of
00:10:34the integrity of the information. Yes, there are procedures for the integrity
00:10:37of knowledge, whether it is reaching correctly or incorrectly.
00:10:40And the oversight of it is also
00:10:43by specialized people. Today, information has become widespread,
00:10:47meaning that anyone can access information,
00:10:50anyone can issue information. So
00:10:53is it being issued correctly or incorrectly? God knows. So from here,
00:10:57the risk begins. So verifying the integrity
00:11:01of information, because
00:11:03social media has also given
00:11:06a platform to all people so that anyone can give anything.
00:11:11issues is, in one way or another, has a negative
00:11:15aspect because there is no regulating
00:11:18body for checking the integrity of this information,
00:11:21whether it is sound, correct, or incorrect.
00:11:25So, dear viewers, we will discuss
00:11:29our esteemed guests, Dr. Jihad Al-Atassi,
00:11:32who is a consultant in digital transformation technologies
00:11:36and internet technologies. He joins us from Istanbul, and from
00:11:39Berlin, we have Professor Abdul Aziz Al-Doudi, a technical
00:11:43and cybersecurity expert. And from
00:11:46Amman, we have technical expert Yahya Al-Subaih. Welcome, my dear
00:11:50guests, all of you. May I start
00:11:53with you, Dr. Jihad?
00:11:55How do you view the meeting
00:11:59held by President Ahmed Al-Shara with
00:12:03experts in the field of technology and digital
00:12:06transformation, and in what
00:12:09fall in this phase of the reconstruction
00:12:12phase?
00:12:16First of all, thank you Mr. Mohammed for this
00:12:19hosting, and I thank
00:12:23the news channel. Regarding this
00:12:26topic, it is a topic
00:12:30one of the basic ones for the new
00:12:34Syria. Digital transformation
00:12:37has become a very simple part
00:12:41of other automation processes
00:12:44and other artificial intelligence agents
00:12:49digital transformation. Yes, the idea is to
00:12:52start from where others started,
00:12:56to start from where
00:12:58others end,
00:13:02or where others work,
00:13:05whether in regional countries or other
00:13:09countries. Therefore, we must
00:13:13start a single national
00:13:16strategy for all ministries, for all
00:13:19government departments, for the private sector
00:13:21and the government sector
00:13:25and also for businesses. Therefore, this topic is
00:13:29a very important topic and we must
00:13:31focus
00:13:34on this topic, just as focus is placed on reconstruction
00:13:36or other
00:13:38issues.
00:13:41Yes, Professor Abdul Aziz, today we stand
00:13:44before a new stage, a comprehensive
00:13:48construction stage. How do you read the role of the technical
00:13:51sector? Is it a sector that perhaps
00:13:56is considered a main driver
00:14:00and a backbone for the vision of the new Syria's
00:14:03economy?
00:14:06Welcome, good morning to you, esteemed guests,
00:14:10and viewers. First, when
00:14:13President Ahmed Al-Shara
00:14:17meets with a Syrian technical
00:14:20delegation, the matter does not stop
00:14:23at technical services and updating
00:14:26resources and rehabilitating and restructuring Syrian
00:14:29institutions, but extends to a national
00:14:32and international strategy. For example, in America,
00:14:35the American President pays attention to this sector,
00:14:39and the German Chancellor also
00:14:42supercomputers.
00:14:46Saudi Arabia has been moving since 2021 and also has
00:14:49a national policy that extended for four or five
00:14:52years and bore fruit.
00:14:56direction with a clear vision, and we
00:15:00must articulate the points that
00:15:03we have. Artificial intelligence, digital
00:15:07commerce, digital transformation, digital media, or
00:15:11industrial automation, all
00:15:16in the strategic vision for the next
00:15:20four years. And we, as Syrian
00:15:23citizens, when we hear that there are investments, I mean, the Syrian
00:15:26Investment
00:15:29yesterday had a meeting with
00:15:3222 companies, most of which
00:15:35are American, in advanced
00:15:38artificial intelligence and modern technology on the regional and international levels. And also when there is
00:15:41a national technological path issued by His Excellency
00:15:45the President by Decision 183,
00:15:48and also when we have a meeting with a technical
00:15:51delegation, this means that
00:15:54when there is also the establishment of an advanced city in
00:15:57Hassia with a huge amount of water
00:16:00drawn so that we have a real nerve center and we have
00:16:04data centers, but for clarification, today
00:16:08when we use artificial intelligence in Syria and integrate
00:16:11it with administrative skills to reduce
00:16:14the burden and complete transactions more
00:16:18efficiently, this does not mean that
00:16:21who are good at dealing with artificial intelligence. No, today
00:16:24we are at a stage where we hope
00:16:28that Syria will not consume these products but export
00:16:32them to other countries as digital services and solutions. Therefore,
00:16:35today we need a clear and national vision. We need
00:16:41programming, engineers in cybersecurity, engineers in
00:16:45or consultants and specialists in
00:16:48governance sciences and also
00:16:51cloud storage and so on. All
00:16:54of them combined with physics, mathematics,
00:16:58and algorithms and developing them within
00:17:00Syria means that the technological ship will carry
00:17:04if there is a clear
00:17:07vision and goals, and these meetings
00:17:11and understandings have crystallized into real
00:17:14projects that benefit citizens and startups,
00:17:16then God willing, they will be exported by the efforts of Syrians
00:17:20and their expertise. And we must not only
00:17:23transfer knowledge from other countries from Syrians, but rather localize
00:17:27knowledge, and localizing knowledge begins
00:17:30with educational curricula. It begins
00:17:34with the return of well-known academies.
00:17:41And when developing the digital infrastructure in
00:17:44Syria, the former
00:17:47regime only had
00:17:51an internet cable that came from the Mediterranean from the nineties,
00:17:55and it is very old. So we do not burden
00:17:58the current administration with the burden of the past stage, but rather
00:18:02there is a clear policy that keeps pace with modern
00:18:05countries to move forward and save the technical reality in Syria.
00:18:09And President Al-Shara also mentioned during
00:18:11his meeting that social
00:18:15media gives a wide space for misleading
00:18:18information, and we must also differentiate between
00:18:21misleading information and false information and
00:18:24cybercrime and ethical crime related
00:18:28to artificial intelligence. Today, in Syria, nearly
00:18:32two years have passed since the liberation until today. There were
00:18:36wide initiatives, there was a tangible impact in Syrian
00:18:39institutions due to their connection with digital transformation and also
00:18:43the gradual use of artificial intelligence. But unfortunately,
00:18:46there are no legislations, there are
00:18:49no legal experts, there is no
00:18:53transfer and localization of knowledge and dealing
00:18:55with ethics, I mean, dealing
00:18:59with digital tools that can be obtained
00:19:03ready-made, as the doctor mentioned.
00:19:06I mean, we start where others ended, and this is where
00:19:10the real challenge lies. Yes, and the matter perhaps needs
00:19:13multiple stages, Professor Abdul Aziz, please stay with me.
00:19:17To Professor Yahya Subaih. Digital
00:19:21transformation experiences in most
00:19:23countries come in
00:19:26stability. However, Syria today begins this
00:19:30experience in parallel with the reconstruction
00:19:33phase. The question here is, what distinguishes
00:19:36Syria
00:19:39synchronicity for Syria with the presence
00:19:42of exceptional opportunities that may not be available to other
00:19:45countries? First, good morning
00:19:49to you and to all the followers
00:19:52and viewers and to all attendees.
00:19:55Regarding the issue of digital transformation, we
00:19:59are talking about an environment
00:20:02that, unfortunately, is very
00:20:06the former regime. There was
00:20:08no entry of technology
00:20:12into any government centers. There are many problems
00:20:15that I expect us to face in building digital transformation,
00:20:18especially compared to countries that started digital
00:20:22transformation from a state of stability.
00:20:27Arab and European countries, we
00:20:31need
00:20:35technology. To deal with digital transformation,
00:20:41private companies must have
00:20:44the knowledge.
00:20:47I call it literacy.
00:20:51And then we start teaching and developing
00:20:54them to work according to the policies and
00:20:57strategies set by
00:21:01digital transformation and using technology to serve
00:21:04citizens and serve society. We currently need
00:21:08in Syria many
00:21:11we can now use artificial intelligence to develop
00:21:15quickly, and they will also be tools that help
00:21:18citizens solve their daily needs without
00:21:22the trouble of going to service centers. This
00:21:26is very good. We notice that some ministries and some institutions
00:21:30digital transformation. They have started launching
00:21:33applications. They have started launching
00:21:36with booking, inquiries, and communication. But we
00:21:40hope that there will be a unified
00:21:44platform, like the experiences of neighboring countries to Syria, such as Jordan
00:21:47and Turkey. What do we need, Professor Yahya? If we go
00:21:51to most government
00:21:53institutions, we will find that paper-based
00:21:56transactions are still present and strong in most
00:21:59institutions. There is probably no electronic
00:22:02archive, no electronic transactions.
00:22:05Most employees perform their work by writing
00:22:08with paper and pen. And this actually causes
00:22:12perhaps some
00:22:15completing transactions, and this also accumulates pressure
00:22:18on the applicant and also on
00:22:21Today, as you mentioned, there are signs of
00:22:25a breakthrough in this regard.
00:22:28Work on creating applications is what
00:22:31the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates and the Ministry
00:22:34of Interior have done to facilitate
00:22:37transactions for applicants and employees. Is that
00:22:41enough? What do we need
00:22:44most today
00:22:46get rid of the system of paper
00:22:50bureaucracy known in state
00:22:52institutions?
00:22:54I go back to what I said, it is the culture of the citizen, and we need
00:22:58to unite in collecting these efforts. I
00:23:02know that every ministry has its own privacy
00:23:05and its own policies, but in stable
00:23:09countries, they always work on creating one application or
00:23:12two at most for complete
00:23:16uses, for all government services. And here we are talking
00:23:20about uniting the efforts of the state in
00:23:25in particular, and in the transformation sector in the cybersecurity
00:23:28sector to unite these
00:23:31efforts into a national
00:23:33institution that takes over the transformation for all
00:23:37we are talking about great
00:23:40comfort for citizens and we are talking about
00:23:44relief also for the concerned
00:23:47authorities, meaning they will have focus. I have
00:23:50an application that I focus on in the field of digital
00:23:54protection, in the field of information, in the field of development and using artificial
00:23:58have many applications
00:24:01and many branches. I see many citizens
00:24:05complaining that they need six or seven applications today. Yes, the Ministry
00:24:08of Interior, the Ministry of Communications, even the Ministry
00:24:11of Information. So we need to unite and to
00:24:15raise the digital culture of government
00:24:18employees. We need our existing expertise
00:24:22to go to these governments, to hold
00:24:25sessions, to discuss, to hold intensive
00:24:28meetings with employees and not with senior management. We
00:24:32will. And in this regard, Professor Yahya, allow me to return to Dr.
00:24:36Jihad Al-Atassi. Dr. Jihad,
00:24:38perhaps we are in dire need today to keep pace with
00:24:44least to race against time
00:24:48and be on par with countries that
00:24:51primarily rely on
00:24:55institutions, in schools,
00:24:58completely today. As we mentioned,
00:25:02we are perhaps starting from scratch after
00:25:06the fall of the former regime, which worked to keep Syrians
00:25:10ignorant and put
00:25:14the country in perhaps the bottom
00:25:16ranks of countries. Today, we are in this phase, entering
00:25:20a new phase of digital transformation. What do we need
00:25:23most, and does the infrastructure
00:25:27today in Syria allow
00:25:30us to keep pace with this transformation
00:25:32that the region is witnessing?
00:25:35Thank you for the question. The truth is
00:25:38that what the two esteemed guests pointed
00:25:42out, there are several
00:25:46must be included in the national strategy for transformation.
00:25:50For the new Syrian state, there must
00:25:53be one national strategy
00:25:56for all ministries and all
00:25:59government departments, and it should also include the private sector
00:26:03and industry. Now, regarding
00:26:06digital transformation or the mechanisms of transformation, there
00:26:10are obstacles and challenges, including
00:26:12what is called resistance to change, and there
00:26:16is resistance
00:26:19to development. Therefore, we must
00:26:22begin in this strategy by including
00:26:26within the strategy studies
00:26:28about
00:26:30the Syrian person who wants to use
00:26:34digital applications
00:26:37or digital technologies, whether they are applications
00:26:41on their phone or on their computer, or even
00:26:44devices and equipment. Qualified personnel
00:26:47must be trained,
00:26:50whether the ordinary user or the service
00:26:53provider as an employee in a government
00:26:57sector or other or
00:26:59even the ordinary citizen.
00:27:02They must be guided or directed
00:27:06in a reasonable
00:27:08way to use those applications. Now,
00:27:12almost 90% or more,
00:27:16even 100%, use WhatsApp,
00:27:19one of the applications,
00:27:22whether educated or uneducated.
00:27:25Therefore, having the
00:27:28device in their hands qualifies
00:27:33them to use
00:27:34the new technical
00:27:37mechanisms. Yes, regarding infrastructure, there must
00:27:40be strong infrastructure from the electricity
00:27:44sector, from the telecommunications sector, from the energy
00:27:47sector,
00:27:50from fiber optic networks. And
00:27:53now Syria will truly be a very
00:27:58in the region, not
00:28:00only for the northern and eastern Mediterranean
00:28:04region, but also for the Arab region
00:28:06and beyond.
00:28:09We must understand this strategy and
00:28:13work to implement it and set
00:28:16its goals clearly. The truth is,
00:28:21benefit from a lot of expertise available
00:28:25inside Syria and outside Syria in setting that strategy.
00:28:28Professor Abdul Aziz, if we put what we have achieved
00:28:34over two years on a scale or
00:28:37an indicator, what stage have we reached
00:28:40so far in digital transformation?
00:28:44I think when
00:28:47we have used artificial intelligence tools to
00:28:51improve administration and transactions and launch electronic
00:28:53programs, we have passed
00:28:57the stage of design thinking or design
00:29:00This means it closes the problem and
00:29:03creates a real simulation of it on the ground. For example, the delay
00:29:07in paper transactions. These small problems are being closed.
00:29:10Is the delay due to poor communication, due to lack
00:29:14of archiving, due to the large number of documents,
00:29:17or due to, in other words, pressure on resources or
00:29:21pressure on employees or on a specific area?
00:29:24So there is good work being done by the Ministry of Interior in this regard
00:29:29legal and civil transactions. But
00:29:33if we look at the balance, as you mentioned,
00:29:37or the planning
00:29:39that has happened in the last year and eight months or year
00:29:43and nine months, we find that there are initiatives and understandings
00:29:46that will, God willing, turn into real projects. And the Ministry of Communications, when it discusses
00:29:50communication systems, when there is a study
00:29:53to establish smart cities, and when there is,
00:29:57yes, the Ministry
00:30:00field, isn't that right? Yes,
00:30:03today we need a new cable so that
00:30:06we can send more data and also download
00:30:09more data. But on two fronts, we need
00:30:14cable, but we also need national
00:30:18equipment inside Syria, as
00:30:24water and depends on specialists even in cooling and heating,
00:30:28and depends on construction engineers and others so that we can provide
00:30:32energy and these centers are in the areas
00:30:35attributed to them, meaning like Deir ez-Zor, like Hasya, when water
00:30:39is drawn, like the areas of the Syrian coast and so on. We
00:30:42have in Syria only one data center in
00:30:46Damascus, far from
00:30:50the other areas. But when the communications
00:30:53infrastructure develops and we
00:30:57have internet, we forget