{"id":7528,"date":"2012-04-02T11:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.22.4.40\/news3\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2012-04-02T11:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T11:00:13","slug":"alfaisal-university-shines-among-leading-companies-as-it-takes-3rd-place-in-the-motah-program-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.alfaisal.edu\/en\/alfaisal-university-shines-among-leading-companies-as-it-takes-3rd-place-in-the-motah-program-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfaisal University Shines Among Leading Companies As It Takes 3rd Place In The Motah Program 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfaisal University IT services participated in the MOTAH program for general public awareness on open source software(<a href=\"http:\/\/motah.org.sa\/\">http:\/\/motah.org.sa\/<\/a>) conducted by KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology) on 27<sup>th<\/sup> Feb 2012 .\u00a0 \u00a0The IT Director shared the university\u2019s \u00a0strategy with regards to the utilization of modern learning techniques and \u00a0to select cost effective solutions aligned to accomplish the university requirements. \u00a0The learning management system at Alfaisal University along with other open source applications was briefed to the audience . Alfaisal won third prize , the first went to CITC followed by\u00a0 SAUDI ARAMCO.<\/p>\n<p>The Motah mission is to encourage and promote the use of free and open source software, within the community by establishing strong partnerships with multiple agents in the public and private sector which provide logistics, technical training, legal and strategic support to interested parties in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The award was open to all private and governmental organizations, and institutions within Saudi Arabia.The participants went through a number of rigorous cycles for the selection process.\u00a0 Alfaisal university which is still very much in its infancy found itself competing with leading organizations like SAUDI ARAMCO &amp; CITC.<\/p>\n<p>The Award ceremony is scheduled to take place later this month at KACST under the patronage of Dr. Mohammad Al Suwaiyel, President King Abdulaziz City for Science &amp; Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us in congratulating our IT Team for their this accomplishment and \u00a0Eng. \u00a0Mohammed Al- Fraih for his direction!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kacst.edu.sa\/ar\/about\/media\/news\/Pages\/news386.aspx\">http:\/\/www.kacst.edu.sa\/ar\/about\/media\/news\/Pages\/news386.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsharq.net.sa\/2012\/04\/01\/195331\">http:\/\/www.alsharq.net.sa\/2012\/04\/01\/195331<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfaisal University IT services participated in the MOTAH program for general public awareness on open source software(http:\/\/motah.org.sa\/) conducted by KACST&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,129],"tags":[],"college-department":[],"class_list":["post-7528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news-archive"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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