I agree with Zaid. Let us at least introduce gifta and offer our help.
Tareq, would you like to do that?
Jihan

-----Original Message-----
From: GIFTA@yahoogroups.com [mailto:GIFTA@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of
zaid
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 11:17 AM
To: GIFTA@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [GIFTA] Intel to Open Technology Center in Gaza


if one can contact Chuck Mulloy
and ask how gifta can help intel
with this effort. i think this
will be a huge start.

best
zaid

--- Feras Qumseya <feras@...> wrote:

> I think we should. What in your opinion is the
> recommended course of action?
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From: zaid <zaid3k@...>
> Subj: Re: [GIFTA] Intel to Open Technology Center
> in Gaza
> Date: Tue Feb 21, 2006 10:47 am
> Size: 2K
> To: GIFTA@yahoogroups.com
>
>
> hello,
>
> this is great news. are we doing anything
> to get involved with this effort?
>
> best
> zaid
>
> --- tariq_almuhtasib <tariq_almuhtasib@...>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > FYI...
> >
> >
>
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060220/ap_on_hi_te/intel_gaza
> >
> > MESA, Ariz. - Intel, the world's largest
> > semiconductor company, is
> > planning to build the first information
> technology
> > education center
> > in the volatile Gaza Strip.
> >
> > The Intel Information Technology Center of
> > Excellence is intended to
> > provide IT training to Palestinians and stimulate
> > development of
> > high-tech industry in an area where half the
> labor
> > force is
> > unemployed. The center is being developed in
> > conjunction with
> > Washington, D.C.-based American Near East Refugee
> > Aid and the
> > Islamic University of Gaza.
> >
> > "We don't want to discount the tension in the
> area
> > ... but from our
> > perspective, we view it as something that can
> have a
> > positive
> > impact," said Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy. "If
> you
> > talk to the
> > leaders of the Palestinian Authority, this is
> > exactly the kind
> > of thing they want. They want education, they
> want
> > paths to improve
> > the economic well-being of their citizens."
> >
> > Intel has had a presence in Israel for more than
> > three decades,
> > but over the past few years has launched an
> > initiative to also
> > expand its investments in the Arab world.
> >
> > The center is the company's first large project
> in
> > the Palestinian
> > territories, an area where American corporate
> > involvement is rare.
> >
> > It will be staffed primarily by Palestinians and
> > will be located a
> > couple of miles outside Gaza City in an area
> staked
> > out to become a
> > technology park with the Intel center as its
> anchor,
> > said Peter
> > Gubser, president of ANERA. Construction is
> expected
> > to begin in
> > about two months, with completion a year later.
> >
> > The cost to build and equip the center will only
> be
> > about $1
> > million, Gubser said, because a dollar goes a lot
> > farther in the
> > Middle East.
> >
> > Though the security situation in Gaza is not
> good,
> > Gubser believes
> > the willingness of Intel to be an American
> corporate
> > pioneer in the
> > Gaza Strip may encourage other American
> corporations
> > to follow.
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