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nder the Patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Nahyan
Bin Mubarak Al-Nahyan, Chancellor of UAEU and Min-
ister of Higher Education and Scientific Research,
United Arab Emirates University hosted Ankabut Users’ Meet-
ing on September 18 and 19, 2012. The Ankabut Users’ Meet-
ing has exceeded by far all expectations, with almost 400 at-
tendees on both days which is a new record registered only
through UAEU.
The Ankabut users’ meeting was attended by Vice Chancellor
of UAEU, Dr. Mugheer Al-Khaili, Director General of Abu Dhabi
Education Council and Dr. Arif Al-Hammadi, Executive Vice
President of Khalifa University.
The sessions of the event focused on “
Discovering Ankabut
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with H. David Lambert, President and CEO of Internet2 and
Dr. Salem Alagtash, Managing Director of the Arab States Re-
search and Education Network (ASREN) as key speakers at this
event.
The sessions also featured a session on “
Preparing state of
the art ICT infrastructure to support modern mobile devices,
the planning and implementation experience on deploying
iPad-based learning for foundation courses
�?, by our very own
Sharath Hedge, Manager of IT Support Services and Muham-
mad Imran, Manager of Email Services.
Ankabut “
Spider
�? spins faster webs for
academics @ UAEU
I have been to a lot of conferences and
Ankabut always organizes great
events. I love using internet2 as an educa�?
Ɵonal network and the Ankabut Users’
MeeƟng was essenƟal to help us take full
advantage of internet2 in the web commu�?
nity
�?, Raed Shehada, Web Design Special-
ist, UITS.
I believe such events are very informa�?
Ɵve for those directly involved in such
implementaƟons. These kinds of events
bring everyone to a common plaƞorm to sit
and discuss the issues and challenges faced.
Researchers should be directly involved in
these events in order to extend networking
and social contacts with other colleagues in
the rest of world
�?, Umair Gul Memon, Net-
work Administrator, UITS.
What people said …
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By: Shamma Al Muhairi
14 | Nov 2012 .
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