MoEHE Undersecretary H E Dr. Ibrahim bin Saleh Al-Nuaimi and NCSA President H E Eng Abdulrahman Ali Muhammad Al Farahid Al Malki honouring Assistant Undersecretary for Educational Affairs Maha Zayed Qaqaa Al Ruwaili.
DOHA: The Private Schools and Kindergartens Department at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, in cooperation with the National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA) and Digital Safety, organised a ceremony to honour the winners of the “Cyber Eco” project and the “Educational Cybersecurity Curricula” project at the Ministry’s headquarters.
The ceremony was held in the presence of H E Dr. Ibrahim bin Saleh Al-Nuaimi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, H E Eng Abdulrahman Ali Muhammad Al Farahid Al Malki, President of the National Cyber Security Agency, and a number of directors from the Ministry and the NCSA, along with school principals, teachers, students, and parents.
In a speech on this occasion, Al-Nuaimi, stated, “The impact of these initiatives has extended to include more than (400) schools from various sectors, benefiting thousands of students, teachers, and parents. These blessed efforts are the fruit of the State of Qatar’s focus on investing in quality education. Thousands of students have benefited from the initiative through intensive awareness and training programs that contributed to refining their digital skills and instilling a culture of safe technology use, which helps them face challenges and gives them the confidence to deal with the demands of the digital age with awareness and responsibility.”
Ahmed Al Hammadi, Director General of the National Cyber Security Agency, confirmed that the Curricula project targeted 433 public and private schools within the state, and the awareness content was delivered to more than 583,000 male and female students. Furthermore, teachers and students around the world benefited from the open platform that includes the educational content and learning resources specific to this project.
He added, “At the level of the Cyber Eco project, 207 schools were visited, and awareness content was delivered to 10,608 male and female students.”
He pointed out that teachers and students’ parents were at the core of both projects’ focus through training workshops that targeted 353 teachers and 500 parents.
He concluded his speech by affirming that the partnership between the National Cyber Security Agency and the Ministry of Education and Higher Education is continuous and will soon result in the launch of the second phase of the Curricula project. This will enhance the positive impact achieved in the first phase, leading to the NCSA’s main goal: to promote a secure cyber environment for students.
A total of 15 male and female students, 10 schools, and 4 Ministry leaders who played a role in the project’s success were honored.
The programme included field visits to schools to assess the students’ ability to study and apply the educational curricula for cybersecurity and Cyber Eco, an initiative aiming to increase students’ awareness of the best ways to protect digital information through innovative workshops and activities to enhance cybersecurity understanding.
