World Summit on the Information Society - Western Asia Preparatory Conference

MEETINGS

Expert Group Meeting on Promotion of Digital Arabic Content (DAC)
3-5 June 2003, UN-House, Beirut, Lebanon

Meeting papers and presentations listed by session and theme:

Opening Statement
	Ms. Mervat Tallawy, Under Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, ESCWA (Arabic)

Keynote Address (main paper)
	The Arab Content Industry System: Challenges, Opportunities and Solution Frameworks (Arabic)	Nabil Ali Abdel-Aziz

Papers and Presentations in the Sessions
Session I: Digital Arabic Content Development: Media Content
	Internet and journalistic skills - a case study of Al-Ahram (Arabic)	Abu El-Soud Abd El Rehim
	Contribution of the daily written media in strengthening the digital Arabic content (Arabic)	Imad Bachir
	Arabic digitization problems: Lessons from Alwaraq.com (Arabic)	Moutasem Zakkar

Session II: Arabic Domain Names: Highlights
	A review of the Arabic domain names industry: past initiatives, present status and future perspectives	Charles Sha'ban
	Top level Arabic domain names (Arabic)	Abdulaziz Al-Zoman
	Multilingualization standard	Wael Nasr Abdel-Ati
	Internet domain name registration and dispute resolution	Erik Wilbers
	Domain names: When is it going to be in Arabic? (Arabic)	Abdulaziz Al-Zoman, Raed Al-Faiz, and Anas Assiri
	Arabizing Domain Names (Arabic)	Abdulaziz Al-Zoman

Session III: Digital Arabic Content Development: Cultural and Educational Content
	Development of digital Arabic content for the Egyptian cultural heritage	Fathi Saleh
	Heritage publishing on the Web (In Arabic)	Youssef Ziedan
	Dar Al-Taaseel experience in developing specialized databases (In Arabic) (Not available)	Abdul Rahman Aqeel
	Adapting e-learning applications for the promotion of digital Arabic content (In Arabic)	Ammar AlAttiyyat

Session IV: Arabic Domain Names: Panel Discussion

Session V: Language Processing
	The second wave of Arabic natural language processing: A content perspective	Nabil Ali Abdel-Aziz
	Machine translation and the promotion of the digital Arabic content (In Arabic)	Adnan Eydan Wall
	Standardization of using Arabic language in computers (In Arabic)	Ahmed Abu El-Haija
	Internet communication in Arabic Language	Steve Lee

Session VI: Arabic Content Industry
	Prerequisites for developing the Arab content industry	Hossam El Beblawi
	Commercial models for promoting digital Arabic content	Ali Al-Assam
	Digital Arabic content industry: A business case for Lebanon	Fouad Mrad and Roula Moussa

Session VII: Round Table (A): General Discussion

Session VIII: Round Table (B): The Road Ahead

Session IX: Closing and Recommendations

MEETING DETAILS

Final Report

Meeting Outline

Meeting Portfolio

Meeting Documents

List of Participants (Arabic)

Meeting Report (Arabic)