President Hosni Mubarak called on the
Islamic World to work hard according to a well-devisded plan to
overcome technological illiteracy.
President Mubarak underlined the necessity of introducing the study of computer as a key curricular subject in the different phases of education in the Arab and Islamic World, noting that technology is the language of the era.
This came in Mubarak`s word, read out on his behalf by Waqfs Minister Mahomud Zaqzouq, on the occasion of opening the 12th Conference of Islamic Council for Islamic Affairs in Cairo today.
The present era imposes major challenges in the various
domains, and there is no choice but to face them and deal with
them positively in order to get out of the cultural crisis from
which the Islamic World is suffering, He said.