Abdul Rahman bin Mohammed Al Owais
Minister of Culture, Youth and Community Development
Welcome to the web site of culture and the network of the ever shining and ascending Emirati civilization. Thank you for your kind interest in familiarizing yourselves with what we have on offer and your desire to share your creative works with our aspiring community. Not so long ago, people had to cross valleys and mountains and use hundreds of transport means to communicate with each other, or even to secure their most basic needs. Today, any individual can in the privacy and comfort of his home, easily communicate with others in the remotest parts of the world and its last point of convergence. Modern technology has unquestionably taken charge of radically developing communication, and was able to bring people together in a creative manner befitting modernity, thereby achieving the most amazing wonder of modern times.
We at the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Community Development, never hesitated to keep pace with the UAE’s triumphal march towards a brighter future, leadership and people alike. We have kept pace with our country’s ambitions aiming at equipping our citizen with the best of everything, in order to allow them to access the age of digital technology equipped with all our goals, achievements and aspirations, and using them to sustain the communication frameworks between us and others.
The beginning was through the development of service and information database networks, making them available electronically to support the process of community development, and transforming technology into a mediator between us and each community member and creative talent. Through the launch of the Ministry's electronic web site and its related advanced software, we aimed to attract all the categories and segments of the community, using various projects tuned to meet everybody’s requirements. We have strived to determine the best content we can offer on this site to achieve the objectives of the State’s pioneering community development targets on the one hand, and those of the Ministry, based on its ambitious strategy and clear vision, on the other hand. We also strived to deliver the Ministry’s important message through a bouquet of projects designed to educate and develop youth and the community, and first and foremost, upgrade the intellectual and cultural standard of each of its members.
The main objective of this site is to give everyone equal opportunities to avail of all its projects and programs and to open the gates of interactive communication and frank and meaningful dialogue between the Ministry and all its site’s users. Through this site, we hope to achieve our most important target, namely to deliver the message of culture locally and globally, support meaningful change for a brighter and safer future, and communicate with all those looking forward to join the knowledge community, in order to build it on sound foundations and rules, develop it and give it their best intellectual contributions.
May God lead our way to work for the good of the nation and its distinction, and welcome to our cultural and technical community, wishing you a pleasant journey.