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The UAE Board on Books for Young People
(UAEBBY) has launched the “Reading Chal-
lenge” initiative, which challenges social me-
dia pioneers to compete in reading stories for
students in schools and kindergartens in the
various emirates of the UAE.
The initiative comes under the umbrella of
“Read.Dream.Create” campaign, which aims
to bring children and books together and
support children’s ability to read, write, inno-
vate and create.
The idea of the challenge is that one activist
on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram will read
different books, especially winning books of
the Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Lit-
erature, to a group of school or kindergarten
children in one of the UAE’s emirates. Then,
he/she will select another activist from these
social networking platforms to do the same in
another school or kindergarten.
In a move to support Dubai’s efforts to be
a smart city over the course of the next few
years, the Rochester Institute of Technology
Dubai (RIT Dubai) has introduced the “Smart
City” professional diploma. In its first edition,
the diploma program consists of eight work-
shops over the course of eight months.
The program aims to educate both the public
and private sectors about the importance of
smart city transformation.
Through its innovative initiatives, RIT Dubai
aspires to have a positive and concrete im-
pact on society and the entire world. This
public-private partnership is means to em-
ploy ideas from across various fields. This
is the way of thinking the RIT seeks to rein-
force among its students to enable them to
improve the quality of their lives by benefit-
ting from innovative thinking and advanced
technology.
UAEBBY
launches “Reading Chal-
lenge” for social media pioneers
RIT Dubai
supports smart transformation with
smart city professional diploma
Pneumatic Tube electronic system
to transport medicine to patients
The Ministry of Public Works devel-
oped an advanced electronic sys-
tem at hospitals constructed by the
Ministry to transfer medicine needed
by patients from the main pharmacy
to various departments without the
need for employees.
The innovative system called “Pneu-
matic Tube” is part of the Ministry’s
efforts to implement the concept of
innovation in the various projects
constructed by the Ministry including
health projects. This comes in line
with its commitment to the national
innovation strategy.
Using the pneumatic tube system,
the main pharmacy receives the
prescription by the physician elec-
tronically, then workers prepare the
required medicine, put it in a special
bottle and send it to the target de-
partment through the electronic sys-
tem. Each department has its own
electronic number. The physician re-
ceives the medicine in a much short-
er time than the traditional system.
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May
2015