President Sheikh Mohamed has met Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, who is visiting the UAE.
During the meeting at Al Shati Palace, Sheikh Mohamed welcomed the Rwandan leader, who offered his condolences following the death of Sheikh Khalifa last month.
"He said the date has great significance in the UAE, also coinciding with the foundation of Dubai Internet City in 1999".
Sheikh Mohammed said Unesco had also agreed to the UAE's proposal to observe an international day for digital education on March 19 each year.
The Emirates has been at the forefront of efforts to embrace new technologies to fast-track its development and prepare generations for workplace evolution.
“In a new global initiative for the UAE, Unesco today adopts an Emirati proposal to make October 29 (the day we launched Dubai Internet City) an international day of programming and March 19 an international day for digital education,” Sheikh Mohammed wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Friday.
He said computer programming had become a 'fundamental focus” in the UAE, while digital education was a “fundamental axis in scientific development”.
"Mr Kagame, one of Africa's longest-serving leaders, highlighted Sheikh Khalifa's humanitarian contributions to the continent and the world, state news agency Wam reported".
The One Million Arab Coders initiative was launched in 2017 to equip young people with the skills needed to succeed in the 21st century.
The Emirates unveiled the National Programme for Coders in July 2021, in collaboration with technology companies including Google, Amazon and Microsoft, to bolster coding skills, particularly among young people.
It aims to train 100,000 coders and establish 1,000 technology companies that will go global and increase start-up investments from Dh1.5 billion to Dh4bn, Sheikh Mohammed said at the time.
In October 2021, Abu Dhabi opened a coding school without teachers or classrooms.
The coding school is part of the 42 Network and is the first of its branches to open in the Arabian Gulf.
Writing code, building computer software and creating mobile applications are among the most sought-after skills in the future global job market.
The Rwandan leader congratulated Sheikh Mohamed on his appointment as President, wishing him success and the UAE further development and prosperity. He also highlighted his keenness to expand UAE-Rwanda co-operation across different sectors.
Sheikh Mohamed thanked President Kagame for his sincere feelings towards the UAE and its people, and expressed his wishes of more growth and prosperity for Rwanda.
The meeting was attended by Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohamed bin Zayed, Sheikh Mohammed bin Hamad bin Tahnoun, Adviser for Special Affairs at the Ministry of Presidential Affairs, Sheikh Shakhbout bin Nahyan, Minister of State, and Dr Anwar Gargash, Diplomatic Adviser to the President.
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While modern scholarship is divided on the timeline thereafter, Cassius Dio’s account—the most detailed of the Roman sources—extends the battle over a period of four days. Dio and other sources suggest that while marching for a second day, Varus’s column reached a pass between the Kalkriese Hill and a great bog. As a whole, the column consisted of roughly 20,000 men and extended 7–8 miles (11.3–12.9 km) in length. The pass they were crossing through is reported to have been heavily forested and muddy as a result of a torrential downpour. The rebel Germanic tribesmen were stationed along the hill behind a series of fortifications. From this position on the high ground, the tribesmen began to throw javelins and fire arrows into the Roman column; some barreled down the hill and fought the legionaries hand to hand. Being on disadvantageous terrain and caught by surprise, Varus’s legions were unable to take up defensive formations, and the column may have split in two. Some continued to fight the Germanic insurgents on the Kalkriese slope, but a large wall of sand allowed the tribesmen to repeatedly attack the legionaries and then retreat behind their fortifications. A large portion of the Roman column was shattered on this day.
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