A senior UAE minister has announced a new Global Coder initiative aimed at teaching five million people from underprivileged families how to code.
Mohammed Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Affairs and the Future, said the scheme would boost businesses and help to create jobs.
Modern coding, the process of designing and building often complex computer programs, has become a vast field relied on by companies around the world for everyday operations.
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“Today I am announcing Global Coder,” Mr Al Gergawi told an audience at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday.
“Our aim is to teach five million young people coding, for them to create jobs, to give them opportunities so they can start up companies. We know what sort of jobs that will be required in the future.”
Mr Al Gergawi spoke of his upbringing in Dubai, where lack of running water or electricity was common for many families.
He said few people believed the UAE, which was formed in 1971, would survive, but that history had told a different story.
Mr Al Gergawi said that today, it was essential for the UAE to continue to build on its successes and ensure economic prosperity for all.
Launching a programme to help train coders would better equip workers for the future.
“To eliminate poverty we need to create jobs, we need to empower society,” Mr Al Gergawi said. “We need to create companies for people, build their societies and their families.
“I was born in the '60s in the city of Dubai. Back then, we had no running water, we barely had electricity. No proper health care, no university.
“Throughout our journey, we got help from other countries. They sent us teachers, they sent us books. When it came to health care, other countries sent doctors.
“It was a very small city, the country wasn’t even formed, it was just a city. Then in 1971, a country was formed, and that country was called the United Arab Emirates.
“Considered a small state, nobody thought it would survive.”
At the Forum, high-profile speakers address guests on the opening day of the annual gathering.
US President Donald Trump touted the success of the US economy, dismissing “perennial prophets of doom” on climate change to an audience that included Greta Thunberg.
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Saturday (UAE kick-off times)
Watford v Leicester City (3.30pm)
Brighton v Arsenal (6pm)
West Ham v Wolves (8.30pm)
Bournemouth v Crystal Palace (10.45pm)
Sunday
Newcastle United v Sheffield United (5pm)
Aston Villa v Chelsea (7.15pm)
Everton v Liverpool (10pm)
Monday
Manchester City v Burnley (11pm)
Soldier F
“I was in complete disgust at the fact that only one person was to be charged for Bloody Sunday.
“Somebody later said to me, 'you just watch - they'll drop the charge against him'. And sure enough, the charges against Soldier F would go on to be dropped.
“It's pretty hard to think that 50 years on, the State is still covering up for what happened on Bloody Sunday.”
Jimmy Duddy, nephew of John Johnson
Scoreline:
Cardiff City 0
Liverpool 2
Wijnaldum 57', Milner 81' (pen)
