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IF I A Magazine - Mar ch 2020 |

publish information material to disseminate knowledge and awareness on patents, the adoption of specialized
scientific programmes to rehabilitate young people to reach inventions that will benefit humanity, in cooperation
with educational institutions and other relevant official bodies and the promotion of Emirati inventors on
international forums.
Emirati inventor Ahmed Abdulla Majjan, chairman of the founding UAE inventors committee, expressed his
appreciation for the initiative of the minister of community development and Hessa Tahlak, under-secretary for
community development and Hamad Al Mannai, director of of the office of the minister and Professor Ahmed
Alkhudaim, deputy director.
Inventor Ahmed Majan stressed the UAE’s focus on invention and innovation, artificial intelligence and scientific
research with the creation of the University of Mohammed Bin Zayed for Artificial Intelligence and the minister of
artificial intelligence. Also, the launch of an annual month of innovation shows the keenness of the UAE’s educational
institutions to spread and promote the spirit of inventions and innovation in the new generation, he said, adding
that the UAE is organizing more challenges for inventors, most significantly hosting the 44th competition of global
skills.
He said the newly established society will be vested with various responsibilities and challenges such as establishing
a national record, awards in different invention fields, preparation and development of training programmes and
investments in inventions.

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