OPEN// PM: Awqaf Ministry's new digital platform seeks to renew foundations of religious discourse
The project is part of the state's digital transformation strategy, Madbouli added during a news briefing held in the presence of the Awqaf minister, who announced the official launch of the new platform, following the Cabinet weekly meeting on Wednesday.
The premier described the new digital platform as a significant shift in improving the ministry's performance and enhancing its services, highlighting the diversity of topics and richness of services on the ministry's platform, which would contribute to advancing human building efforts in the new republic at the intellectual and spiritual levels.
Meanwhile, Awqaf Minister Osama el Azhari said the launch of the digital platform coincides with the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, observed annually on June 18.
The platform is based on the ministry's four-part strategy, which focuses on confronting religious and irreligious extremism and contributing to character building and civilizational revival, the minister pointed out.
The new platform features three main phases, the first of which was launched today, with an unlimited room for scale-up.
The world's largest religious platform is meant to achieve all its milestones up to sustainability by mid-2027, the minister said.
The first phase includes 60,000 pages, making it the biggest religious platform in the world.
By the end of all milestones, the platform is meant to hit a staggering count of several million pages.
The platform approaches religious issues from various angles, including legal, linguistic, philosophical, sociological, medical, historical, and other perspectives.
It adopts a moderate line of thought that seeks to promote the true, great values of Islam. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and chatbot features are to be expected as part of the operational and interactive functions of phase three of the platform.
The platform also includes a special section for an initiative dubbed "Correct Your Concepts," a strategic scientific project for reshaping consciousness, reviving right concepts, and dispelling misconceptions, to build a free, believing, rational human being who can contribute to civilization-building, the minister said.
This initiative will be launched next week under the auspices of the prime minister, Azhari noted. (MENA)
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