AMMAN—
Director-General of the Jordan News Agency (Petra) Fayeq al-Hijazin said that services in the world 28 years from now will be
easier, but scarier, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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Al-Hijazin made his remarks as he participated at a panel
discussion at the 11th annual
International Government Communication Forum(IGCF), on Thursday, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Al-Hijazin explained that modern technology, with all its
tools, enabled the various media outlets to handle the audience's reaction
directly and modify its media message.
Responding to a question, al-Hijazin stressed that the
reliance on the state-run media is "very high", indicating that 90
percent of the news circulated on many different media outlets, as well as
social media, are news quoted from the state media.
He noted that Jordan has launched a
media education
curriculum, which will be included in the national curricula by 2023, while
benefiting from the expertise of media professionals working in this field.
He also stressed the need to balance between the pros and
cons of Web 3.0 so that we can use it in the right and proper ways, and avoid
illegal methods.
In light of the spread of false and fabricated news and
images, and those who call for racism or hatred, al-Hijazin stressed that the
Metaverse environment verifies such news.
"The Arab world has the ability to keep pace with the
developments and we have several experiences of investing and benefiting from
these developments. This is reflected in the services, industry and daily lives
of people in this region. In fact, when we talk of the metaverse, the whole
world is on the doorsteps of this new world, while the
UAE is among the first
of two global locations where this is to be tested," al-Hijazin said.
Prof. Wendy Hall, Executive Director of the Web Science
Institute at the University of Southampton, said that Web 3.0 is the key to
making the Metaverse safe, but the world needs to really understand what it
might be and what the dangers of it are if it is in the wrong hands.
Prof Ajit Jaokar, AI Course Director, Oxford University, emphasized
that while technologists may have made a mistake of simply looking at the Internet
as technology, people also realized that there is the aspect of culture that
surrounds it.
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