Abdalla Mahmoud of AUC receives grant to give paper at Telecommunication and Information Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, March 2005.

Abdalla, who is in the final year of the Computer Science Master Program at the American University in Cairo, will be one of very few Arab participants in this prestigious conference.

He notes that Arab nations have already set the growth in IT as one of their major strategic goals for the coming period, realizing that if a nation needs to be internationally recognized then it has to rise and strengthen its IT foundation to make advances in all other areas easier and faster.