UAEU enhances student participation in Expo 2020 Dubai

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As a result of these efforts, roughly 88 percent of the country’s population now use internet, and over 60% have access to mobile internet, Victoria Hernández Mora, Costa Rica’s Minister of Economy, Industry and Commerce, said during the discussion.

"All this has encouraged us to keep supporting digital maturity assessments hand in hand with the Inter-American Development Bank; SME digitalisation programmes’ continuity towards transformation together with the banking system for development; fostering a new digital record; as well as a new fintech that fuels small enterprises with high-tech tools to give them access to resources.

" Mora expressed that these initiatives would lead to increased competitiveness, growth diversification of the GDP, and the creation and promotion of talents. Victor Bisono Haza, Minister of Industry, Commerce and MSMEs in the Dominican Republic, highlighted the importance of developing longterm strategies to help countries successfully face the challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. "The Industrial Revolution and digital transformation demand a deep change in companies and professionals – changes that reach every area of the organisation and every sector of the economy, becoming a ground-breaking setting as a result of technological advances.

The Dominican Republic has already started working on a paradigm shift, reflected in the implementation of different initiatives and policies, such as Presidential Decree No.

7121, which establishes the creation of the Cabinet for digital transformation.

" To foster bilateral collaboration in the areas of technology adoption and industrialisation, the Dominican Republic has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Spain, focused on two initiatives: the Advanced Digital Self-Assessment tool (ADA), which will allow industrial organisations to assess their maturity and digitalisation levels, and the Activa Programme, which provides specialised advice for enterprises, including situational assessments and transformation plans.

Gabriela Dutrénit, Chair of the Latin American Network for Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (LALICS), spoke of the limited innovation approach as an obstacle to digitalisation, followed by structural heterogeneity of regional economies.

"The challenge is how to handle this heterogeneity with differentiated policies according to the type of sector.

On the one hand, there are bigger enterprises or even SMEs that have already taken a step towards technology development, and on the other hand, we have MSMEs that have taken a step forward in digitalisation, in using, not developing new technologies.

But we need a differentiated policy, so the rest is about how to combine or articulate these policies. " According to Ruben Geneyro, President of the National Institute of Industrial Technology (INTI) in Argentina, digital transformation and the shift to the 4.

0 paradigm represent an additional challenge for the country with respect to its goal of modifying the productive matrix.

"It is necessary to have active states that design smart and dynamic institutional mechanisms to generate synergies among the public and private sectors, the academic sector, and the workers.

A few months ago, our Ministry of Productive Development presented a new Plan for Productive Development 4.

0 with the idea of encouraging the adoption of this paradigm and promoting the development of technological solutions in the country, taking into account other countries’ experiences, but mainly considering our particularities, the productive framework, our strengths, and weaknesses. " Argentina’s Plan for Productive Development 4.

0 includes 50 new measures to raise awareness, including training, technical assistance, investment support, and an institutional infrastructure that supports the process of industrial transformation. In addition, the National Institute for Industrial Technology is currently working on courses for the industry and university degrees to build an institutional framework.

The virtual panel discussion is the latest in a new series of sessions held by the GMIS Digital Series 2021. The topics explored during the panel are closely aligned with the focus areas of the fourth edition of the Global Manufacturing and Industrialisation Summit (#GMIS2021).

Under the theme ‘Rewiring Societies: Repurposing Digitalisation for Prosperity’, #GMIS2021 will take place at EXPO’s Dubai Exhibition Centre from November 22-27.

AL AIN, 22nd September, 2021 - The United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) is putting the final touches to its Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai over the next six months.

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Mohammed Hassan Ali, Acting Provost, explained that the University is ready to participate in this important global event and provide exceptional experiences to visitors. The programme of inspiring and creative activities that will help showcase how the University