- The Jordanian
Common Communication Format for Bibliographic Exchange, 3rd Edition.
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Arabic Internet Names
Consortium, 3rd Meeting, Tunis, 15-17 April, 2002.
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Arab
Academy for Electronic Business, 2nd meeting, Cairo, March, 2002.
- "Workshop on the Activation
of JITCC in Community Service", Amman, 30 March,2002.
- Visit.
- Arab I.T.
Union 1st Board Meeting, Cairo, April, 2002.
- "Seminar on the Intellectual
Property Organization and E-Commerce", Jordan University, Amman, 21- 22 April,
2002.
- "Digital Divide in
the Mediterranean Area" University of Lugano, Switzerland, 24-25 May, 2002.
- " e-jordan: Conference &
Exhibition", National University, Amman, 3-5 June, 2002.
- ESCWA Meeting, Beirut, 16-18 July, 2002.
- The New Search Engine for the NIS.
- Project Management Training (9-12,
June, 2002).
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Upgrading of Internet servers and
communication equipment in NIC.
The Jordanian
Common Communication Format for Bibliographic Exchange, 3rd Edition
In its efforts to encourage the use of
information, the National Information Centre published the 3rd
edition of the Jordanian Common Communication Format for Bibliographic Exchange.
The manual is edited and translated and modified to suit Jordanian information
needs by Ahmad Itayem. The Manual is designed mainly to facilitate the exchange
of bibliographic data. It is a standard for the representation of bibliographic
data in machine-readable form and the structure of the record is an
implementation of international standards. The content of the data elements is
defined by standards outside the formats; e.g. Anglo-American cataloguing rules
and Library of Congress Subject Headings.The
Manual is a set of codes and content designators defined for encoding
machine-readable records. Formats are defined for bibliographic data cataloguing
and classification, periodicalsffcontrolffandffcirculation.
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Arabic Internet Names Consortium, 3rd
Meeting, Tunis, 15-17 April, 2002
The Centre participated in the 3rd
Annual AINC meeting & Arbaic Internet Seminar which was held in Tunis – Tunisia,
from April 15 - 18, 2002. The meeting was hosted by the Tunisian Ministry of
Communications & Technology and by the Tunisian Internet Agency. The meeting
discussed mainly the report that was presented by Dr. Al-Zoman from Saudi
Arabia, chairman of the Linguistics Committee in AINC. The report is about the
technical/linguistic problems that must be addressed by the technology for the
Arabic domain names. The Executive Council also met to discuss administrative
issues. New members were elected. Dr. Firial Biji was elected as chairman and
the Tunisian Government offered to host AINC in Tunis. In addition, the 2ND Arab
ccTLD Meeting was held and it was open
to all Arab ccTLDs including representatives from ICANN, WIPO, ITU and IETF .
The disussions of the Linguistics Committee are available at email
ainc-alc@isu.net.sa.We
would like to share with our readers some of the findings that have been
circulated through the emails concerning Arabic language and countries where it
is spoken. Following is a list of countries where Arabic is
officially spoken including a list of countries where there is a significant
number of people (in millions,perhaps)ffwhoffspeakffArabic.
The existing list was prepared by MINC . It needs updating and additions. The
list is divided into:
·
Countries which are
members of the Arab League.
·
Countries where Arabic
is an official or majority language.
·
Other countries where
Arabic is a significant language.
Countries which are members of the Arab league
(22 countries) Algeria (DZ), Bahrain (BH), Comoros (KM), Djibouti (DJ),
Egypt (EG), Iraq (IQ), Jordan (JO), Kuwait (KW), Lebanon (LB), Libyan Arab
Jamahiriya (LY), Mauritania (MR), Morocco (MA), Oman (OM), Palestinian
Territories ,PS) ,Qatar (QA), Saudi Arabia (SA), Somalia (SO), Sudan (SD),
Syrian , Arab Republic (SY), Tunisia (TN), United Arab Emirates (AE), Yemen(YE).
Countries other than members of the Arab league where Arabic is an official or
majority language (4 countries) Chad (TD), Hagere Ertra (The State of Eritrea)
(ER)
Israel (IL) (used officially for Arab minority), Western Sahara (Sahrawi Rep.)
(EH)
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Arab Academy for
Electronic Business, 2nd meeting, Cairo, March, 2002
The President of
NIC attended the 2nd meeting of the founding members of the Arab
academy for Electronic Business held in Cairo in March,
2002. The aim of the meeting was to finalize the draft Agreement for the
Establishment of the Arab Academy for Electronic Business so as to be
presented to the Arab Council for Economic Unity for approval. The draft ( proposed) agreement was sent earlier to concerned parties in Jordan and other
Arab countries. The finalization of the draft was scheduled in response to the
feedback received.
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"Workshop on the Activation of JITCC
in Community Service", Amman, 30 March,2002
30-3-2002 the National Information Centre held a
workshop under the title” Activation of JITCC in its Role in Community Service”.
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Visit
- 30-3-2002 Dr. Farida Jalabawi from Iran paid a
visit to the Centre.
- 30-3-2002 the students from the Orthdox School paid a visit to the Centre.
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Arab I.T.
Union 1st Board Meeting, Cairo, April, 2002.
The President of
the Centre attended the First Board Meeting of the Arab I.T. Union in his
capacity as a founding member, in Cairo. The meeting was chaired by the Board
Chairman, Dr. Bashir Munajid, Telecommunication Minister of Syria. The meeting
discussed the Union’s articles of incorporation and approved the final
version.Also, the Board held a public meeting in Cairo to launch the Union,
which was attended by several Egyptian and Arab delegates
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"Seminar on the Intellectual Property
Organization and E-Commerce", Jordan University, Amman, 21-22 April, 2002.
21-22 April, 2002, the NIC participated in the
seminar that was organized by the Intellectual Property Organization with the
University of Jordan . The seminar was about The Intellectual Property
Organization and E-Commerce. The President of the Centre presented a paper about
“ Domain Name Protection under .jo and Intellectual Property Right.”
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"Digital Divide in
the Mediterranean Area" University of Lugano, Switzerland, 24-25 May, 2002.
24-25 May, 2002 the Centre participated in a
two-day meeting on the Digital Divide Issue in the Mediterranean area in Lugano,
Switzerland. The meeting was organized by the Faculty of Communication Sciences
of the University of Lugano and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
( SDC). The aim of the meeting was to explore the digital divide in the Med.
Countries and illustrate to NGOs and University students the different ongoing
projects in Mediterranean countries. Jordan was represented by the Coordinator
of the JITCC Projects.
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"
e-jordan: Conference & Exhibition", National University, Amman, 3-5 June, 2002
3-5 June, 2002, NIC participated in “e-Jordan”,
a conference that was organized by the National University. Dr. Yousef Nusseir
participated in chairing the third session entitled “Integration, Planning,
Portals and e-government”.
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16-18 July, 2002 , NIC President attended the “ Forum on Technology,
Employment and Poverty Alleviation in the Arab Countries” in ESCWA, Beirut. The
Forum was organized by ESCWA and ILO and was attended by dignitaries and experts
from various Arab countries and International organizations. Discussions
revolved around the status of ICT in development in the Arab World and its
implications on employment and poverty alleviation. Various national and
regional experiences, strategies and actions plans were presented and discussed
with the aim of producing a set of strategies and action plans to attempt to
enhance the utilization of new technologies in the developmental process in the
Arab World.
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As the National Information Center continues in
its efforts to maintain easy access to timely information, a new Search Engine
has been developed by a team in the Royal Scientific Society. This Search Engine
is to be incorporated into the new web page for the National Information System
which is to be launched soon.Several features are available in the search
engine. The search process includes all sites linked to NIS, including published
Microsoft Office documents. Search criteria can be specified to limit the search
process to a specific category such as economy, or to a specific domain. Other
features include words matching according to Boolean expressions (and, or) or
phrase matching. User interface is available in Arabic and English, which means
that the user can switch to the language of his preference at the time of the
search.
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Project Management
Training (9-12, June, 2002)
This
training course was conducted under the supervision of the Ministry of
Information and Communication Technology (MICT), AMIR program, and the EDS
company.The objectives of the training course were directed towards the
improvement of the management skills of the stockholder representatives
participated in the e-government program, and to enhance the coordination among
the involved institutions. The training program includes a structured and
advanced technical material which covers all stages of program management
process, so it was a successful efforts.
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NIC has
upgraded its network of various electronic servers. New state of the art UNIX
equipment have been purchased for the email, the NIS site and the domain name
register. A new Firewall has been added too. One set of the old equipment is
being used as a stand by for other services in case of emergency. The aim, of
course, is to keep the flow of service without interruption. A new router has
been installed at Hashem Station ( at Jordan Telecom) to link all digital
channels to the gateway to save consumption of the uplink where
informationffisffexchangedffinfftheffinternet.
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