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JULY 9, 2024
Digital Knowledge Hub: Leading Arab

Platform For Education And Scientific

Research

The Digital Knowledge Hub (DKH), the prominent Arab knowledge platform developed by the

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF), holds a significant position in a
world where artificial intelligence (AI) gains traction through its reliance on digital knowledge and
develops dailywith the proliferation of applications and systems that provide access digital knowledge.
Furthermore, the DKH gains more prominence as an integrated digital system with extensive Arab and
global knowledge content and contributes to elevating AI’s presence in the digital environment.It
includes many cognitive digital sources segregated using sophisticated standard methods that make
the searching, browsing, and reading process seamless and flexible anywhere and anytime.

Ambitious and pioneering cognitive mission

The key goal ofthe DKH is to develop a broad digital knowledge base and ensure its accessibility to the
Arab World and beyond. It also seeks to contribute to creating a robust digital infrastructure,which
supports sharing knowledge by enriching the Arab digital library with books, studies, and research, and
offering interactive educational content that addresses the requirements of different age groups. In
addition, the hub seeks to support the dissemination of authentic Arab content and strengthen its
position in the digital world for bridging the digital knowledge gap in the Arab World.

The DKHfurther seeks to offer and develop an integrated open platform that gathers all knowledge
outputs of the MBRF along with the materials of institutions of the government of Dubai and a wide
range of libraries focused on special age groups and specialized knowledge sectors. The move comes
within a comprehensive smart framework to ensure easy and fast access to diverse knowledge sources
in different scientific, literary, and research disciplines offered by Arab and international publishing
houses. Currently, the DKH has over 600,000 titles divided into nearly 6.5 million digital materials.

Goals of DKH

Another objective of the platform is to provide an integrated Arab system for seamless access to
information sources and knowledge content continuously. For instance, it can accommodate the
various needs of education and research by offering a knowledge base rich in digital content in Arabic

and other languages, while also adhering to international standards and protections when building
digital libraries and servers to enhance accessibility and the development, preservation, and availability
of digital memory.

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