Dad Badrawi gives the keynote speech during a workshop entitled “The Digital World and the Culture of the Arab Child”

Dad Badrawi gives the keynote speech during a workshop entitled “The Digital World and the Culture of the Arab Child”

At the invitation of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development (1), Prof. Hossam Badrawi participated today in an important workshop organized by the Council entitled “The Digital World and the Culture of the Arab Child” by giving the keynote speech at the workshop in the presence of a large number of public figures and education experts in Egypt and the Arab world
Dr. Badrawi indicated during his inspiring speech that digital transformation and the rapid spread of information and communication technology has become a reality, casting a shadow on children in all their different age stages and on their upbringing culturally, educationally and socially, which requires all educational institutions, preparation and preparation to enable Arab children to be able to deal with This transformation, according to the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
This workshop is organized by the Council in partnership with the Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science (ALECSO) (2) and the Arab Gulf Program for Development “AGFUND” (3)
Dr. said. Badrawi: What is our philosophy in dealing with this matter!
Will we resist and reject as our Arab culture is, or will we be among the future makers and participants in its formation?
The void in children and youth will be filled by future technologies, and our fear of declining human communication will be filled by artificial intelligence, educational game makers and digital art.
Ladies and gentlemen, watch out. Either we are or we are not in this new and renewed world
If we want our values ​​to merge with digital, we must discuss them first, agree on positive values, and protect our heritage from what does not fit modernity, reason and science.
The workshop will last for two days in Cairo
The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Hassan Al-Bilawi, Secretary-General of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development, and was attended by a group of thinkers and experts in the fields of childhood and digital technology, representatives of relevant organizations nationally, regionally and internationally, as well as the media and children.
In his paper, Dr. Hossam Badrawi also revealed that there are 3.5 million children added annually to the Arab world, of whom 2.5 million are children in Egypt, and that our children are digital, whether we like it or not. Economy to culture, and it was characterized by dissolving differences.. Virtual reality broke the cultural barrier and class distinction between groups, and expanded the reception circles to include all human beings, considering that this is a dangerous role achieved with the “digital boom”.
He added that the data of the United Nations Children’s Fund “UNICEF” (4) indicated that children who use the Internet amount to one out of every three in the world.

(1) The Arab Council for Childhood and Development is an Arab non-governmental organization with a legal personality working in the field of childhood. The council was established in 1987 at the initiative of Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, may God have mercy on him, based on the recommendation issued by the Conference on Childhood and Development held in Tunisia in 1986, which was held under the auspices of The League of Arab States, and the Council is based in the city of Cairo, and the relationship of the Council with the headquarters country is regulated by a special agreement for this purpose that defines its personality and legal status with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

(2) The Arab Organization for Education, Culture and Science is one of the organizations of the League of Arab States, which as a body concerned with the preservation of Arab culture.

(3) The Arab Gulf Program for Development (AGFUND), a regional organization, was established in 1980 at the initiative of His Royal Highness Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, may God have mercy on him, and with the support of the leaders of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. It directs its strategy to the roots of human development problems, targeting all segments of society without discrimination.

(4) The United Nations Children’s Fund was established in December 1946 thanks to a unanimous vote at the first session of the United Nations General Assembly. It was then decided that the United Nations International Children’s Fund, as it was then known, would provide short-term relief to children in post-World War II Europe.