Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi, columnist on Arab affairs, MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellow, and Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation, took the main stage at STEP2016 to talk about the increasingly important role of technology as a platform to disseminate art from the Arab world and the challenges that come along such as censorship and the lack of intellectual property protection, and what Barjeel Art Foundation has been doing to introduce art from the MENA region to the world. Read more »
Science & Technology
Poor Telecom Services hold back UAE Vision 2021
Welcome to the United Arab Emirates. A country that excels in almost every possible field be it sports, logistics, transport, finance, tourism, culture, art and education. In almost every field that is, except telecommunications. When it comes to ICT and telecom services this great country is being shortchanged. Read more »
Global Art Forum 10: The Future Was Space
A panel discussion involving Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi commemorates the golden jubilee of the founding of the United Arab Emirates in 2021 in the context of Dubai’s Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre’s probe launch to Mars. Read more »
Why the Middle East is making giant leap with Mars mission
A project to launch a Mars probe is the Middle East’s chance to make a giant leap to the present, both symbolically and scientifically. The fact that it is staffed by young Middle Easterners and based in the region makes the project twice as important. Read more »
#UberOnDxb – Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi in Conversation with David Plouffe
Uber, together with the Harvard Business School Club of the GCC and the Harvard Kennedy School Alumni Network of the UAE, bring together Sultan Al Qassemi in conversation with David Plouffe, Uber SVP widely known as the ‘architect’ of President Obama’s campaign, on creating the right eco-system for technology and innovation to thrive. Read more »
The Internet Is: Infinity
Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) Commissioner Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi comments on the boundless nature of the Internet. Read more »