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MoTC launches first edition of Smart City Expo
Doha during QITCOM 2019
T
he Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) in Qatar
has partnered with the organisers of Smart City Expo World
Congress, Fira de Barcelona, to launch Smart City Expo Doha.
The event took place at Qatar IT Conference & Exhibition 2019
(QITCOM 2019), under the theme, ‘Safe, Smart Cities’. Smart
City Expo is a global platform committed to promoting awareness
and understanding of Smart Cities and the development of smart
initiatives for a sustainable future.
Smart City Expo Doha, in its first edition in Qatar, aimed to introduce
innovative technologies to enhance the lives of citizens, residents and
visitors through social inclusion, sustainability and empowerment.
Her Excellency Reem Al Mansoori, Assistant Undersecretary for the
Digital Society Development Sector at the MoTC, said: “We are
delighted to partner and co-ordinate with Fira de Barcelona which
is one of the world’s leading companies in this field to introduce the
first Smart City Expo Doha.
“The partnership with Fira de Barcelona reflects our readiness for
business dialogues and commitment towards bringing together
global leaders and experts from various economic sectors to
showcase innovative technologies.”
“Regionally and globally, Qatar has been on the frontlines of a major
Digital Transformation towards safe Smart Cities.”
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Newton Group of Schools launches
STEM education programme
B
oeing and INJAZ Qatar have celebrated
the successful launch of a new STEM
education programme at Newton Group of
Schools in Doha.
The programme for 8 to 11-year-old
students was designed by Technovation,
a global technology education non-profit
organisation that Boeing has been working
with since 2016.
HE Sheikha Hanadi bint Nasser Al Thani,
Chairperson of INJAZ Qatar and INJAZ
Al Arab, and Bernard Dunn, President of
Boeing Middle East, North Africa and Turkey,
attended the launch and witnessed the
programme implementation throughout the
classrooms of the school.
“It’s hugely fulfilling for Boeing to see
the kind of forward-thinking attitude at
play in the classrooms here at Newton
International School,” said Dunn. “Our strong
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partnership with INJAZ Qatar is based on our
mutual commitment to empower the next
generation of STEM leaders in Qatar.”
Boeing facilitated trainers from
Technovation, headquartered in the US,
to fly to Qatar to train grade three to five
teachers. The training included access to the
Curiosity Machine curriculum which is AI-
based incorporating several Boeing-inspired
challenges, training modules, workbooks
and lesson plans. The teachers are now
implementing the curriculum and challenges
into their classrooms.
Some of the design challenges include
engineering a safe stopping robot that turns
itself off when leaving a safe area.
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