His Highness the Amir's care for Sheikh Salem's Informatics Award a major motive -- Sheikha Aida

KUWAIT, Dec 15 (KUNA) -- His Highness the Amir's special care for activities of His Highness Sheikh Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah Informatics Award, over the past consecutive nine years, constituted a major motive for those involved in these purposeful actions.
This affirmation was made by Sheikha Aida Salem Al-Ali Al-Sabah, the award's Board of Trustees Chairperson, in a press statement. She added that His Highness the Amir, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, would patronize a ceremony, honoring winners of the award's 14th session, on Wednesday.
His Highness the Amir's particular care for such activities has served the State of Kuwait's high-esteem international status, recently capped with the United Nations' designation of His Highness as a "humanitarian leader" and Kuwait as a "humanitarian center." Sheikha Aida said that also during the planned ceremony, the top "informatics medal" will be granted to the digital camera inventor, Steven J. Sasson, whose innovation proved quite useful in vital sectors, such as medical research, education, communications, as well as social and security domains.
Sasson, an American electrical engineer, invented the digital camera in 1975.
She said the honoring would be also for the board of jurists, which comprises 11 Arab figures, including four representing the e-governments of the UAE, Oman, Kuwait and Jordan, along with four others from Arab research and academic institutions. It also includes two from Kuwait, one from Saudi Arabia and another from Egypt, in addition to three others of civil associations from Tunisia, Bahrain and Palestine.
Sheikha Aida added that ten winners of the award will be honored for best websites and applications in the Arab world, including five with the mostly browsed websites in the Arab countries, along with five of leading smart applications.
The top electronic websites' winners are the e-government of Bahrain, the Qatari airways, a Jordanian medical company, Al-Jazeera and Abu Dhabi's center for electronic systems. The Abu Dhabi's e-government has won in the data category.
She also mentioned winners of the best applications, topped by a Jordanian electronic company, Dubai police, a Kuwaiti advertisement company, the UAE transport department and King Saud University for Koranic applications.
The event will conclude with granting an honorary shield to the sponsor of the ceremony, His Highness the Amir, Sheikha Aida added, hoping that Kuwait would witness further strides at the level of sciences and technologies. (end) zik.rk