August 17, 2011

Dr. Imad Hoballah, TRA acting Chairman and CEO, attended a meeting on Saturday August 13, 2011 with H.E prof. Hassan Diab, Minister of Education and Higher Education and H.E Nicolas Sahnawi, Minister of Telecommunications, in the presence of Engineer Diana Abu-Ghanem, from the Ministry of Communications, Mr.Fadi Yarak, the Director General of Education, the Minister’s advisers, Mr. Ghassan Shacroun and Mr. Ziad Shaaban, the Director of Information Technology at the ministry, Mr. Toufic Karam, and the IT and Institutional Development Project Manager, Mrs. Paulette Assaf.

The purpose of the meeting was to follow-up on the establishment of an interconnection network between public schools in Lebanon to secure an independent and safe link with the educational areas and the central administration in the ministry, and to provide significant and fast educational, administrative and statistical services to the ministry and the students in Lebanon.

This project, once implemented, will contribute to the technical development of the public education sector and will facilitate the administrative and regulatory work within schools. It will also facilitate and accelerate the handling process of thousands of daily transactions and enable online lectures and the exchange of laboratory experiences and interactive courses through the network.