Shaaban meets with President of the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information
The Special Adviser to the Presidency of the Republic Bouthaina Shaaban on Monday met with the President of the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information Nabhan bin Harith Al-Harassi and the accompanying delegation at the headquarters of the “Wathiqat Watan” (Homeland Document) Foundation in Damascus.
The two sides discussed the possibilities of cooperation and exchange of experiences in the field of documentation and heritage preservation and reviewed modern digital technologies in preserving heritage and intellectual production.
They also discussed the possibility of cooperation in projects related to artificial intelligence, digital transformation, archiving and electronic documentation, and holding training and qualification courses in the fields of archiving and scientific research documentation.
Dr. Shaaban said that the relations with the Sultanate of Oman are historical, and it is important and necessary to benefit from the expertise of the Arab Federation for Libraries and Information.
Dr. Shaaban explained that the Wathiqat Watan Foundation’s goal is to achieve a digital archive from which information can be extracted in several ways, to publish information and make it available to all those interested in the country’s history and to document what really happened in Syria to confront misleading Western media propaganda that falsifies facts and to help future generations understand what happened in Syria.
Dr. Shaaban said: “The war on Syria has targeted its cultural, identity and belonging, and what the Wathiqat Watan aspires to do is to strengthen belonging in Syria and in the Arab world, strengthen belonging to the Arabic language, and expose Western misleading campaigns.”
In turn, Dr. Al-Harassi stressed the importance of the work carried out by the Foundation in documenting and clarifying the truth about what happened in Syria.
He pointed to the need to keep pace with the current digital environment, and to reach the best methods of preserving and benefiting from information.
He indicated that there are many Syrian experts in the field of documenting and cataloging heritage, stressing the Union’s readiness to contribute to training programs in the field of archiving and research documentation, through a national strategy in these domains
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