On Monday, February 27, 2023, the minister of higher education and scientific research Mr.Kamel Baddari supervised the launch and the activation of nine digital platforms, these were added to the fourteen digital platforms, which had been already launched and dedicated to the University community.
This operation comes as an incarnation to the president of republic Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune‘s commitment to digitalize all sectors, and as response
to the ministerial assembly outcomes which aim to digitalize the sector of higher education and scientific research.
Mr.Baddari said in a speech on this occasion, that the digitalization is a mean to elevate the higher education and scientific research, as it gives a visual impactto university institutions, in addition to making Algeria a destination for international students.
As for the digital operations that have been developed, they aim to incarnate the main digital plan for the sector. Thus far, nine platforms have been delivered and spread over the strategic axes of this plan, and have been activated on February 27. These platforms are a reference guidebook platform (Training-Jobs), in addition to a platform for monitoring innovated projects, and another one called (University Cinema).
As Mr.Baddari mentioned in his speech, the beneficiaries of the platforms, are in order, Students who will take their official baccalaureate exam, training teams, institutions, local communities and the ministry in charge.
Moreover, since Digitalization is as a pillar for modern administration, another launch of two platforms has been set up. The first one is relevant to the evaluation of permanent researches, as for the second one, it has been developed for selecting candidacies for the post of university services directors, in addition to another platform for pursuing private property of the sector of higher education and scientific research.
As for national and international relations, and as to make Algeria a destination for international students, an activation for a platform dedicated to foreign students has been set up, to facilitate the registration process in the Algerian university institutions. Another social network platform has also been set up for Algerian graduates ‘ALUMNI’, and it is considered as the first social network for previous Algerian graduates, this platform will enable these students to transmit their experiences and know more about their professional status, as to consolidate their spirit of fulfillment and belonging to the Algerian institutions.
A software for detecting plagiarism has been also developed and activated.
On this occasion, Mr. Baddari answered questions from reporters relating to the digitalization and the digital platform in the sector of higher education and scientific research during a press conference.