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The Mostaqbal Portal, a knowledge-based initiative launched by Dubai Future Foundation, has established itself as the leading Arab platform to support knowledge and update Arab audiences regarding cutting edge developments in science and future technology.
The portal topped the list of Arab science platforms in terms of number of followers, visits, and interactions. The site receives up to 20,000 visitors per day, while the platform’s social media platforms have attracted more than four million followers.
Saif Al Aleeli, CEO of Dubai Future Foundation, said, “The portal serves to support the Dubai Future Agenda, which was launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, in a bid to help talented individuals build their capacities to foresee and mould the future, as well as to keep the public informed of the latest innovations and happenings. H.H. Sheikh Mohammed’s vision is focused on making the Dubai Future Foundation a platform for the revival of the ‘House of Wisdom’, the centre of learning in the Golden Age of Islam, and the dissemination of science and knowledge, which supports to the UAE’s humanitarian efforts.”
Al Aleeli said that a page has been added to the portal to receive submissions on innovation from around the Arab region. The new function engages the wider Arab public, inviting them to create content for the portal, while also encouraging them to use it as an official scientific reference.
The portal will later be expanded to include visual material and scientific research, all published on a single Arabic-language website.
The monthly audit of the portal and its social media channels revealed a marked increase in both the number of visitors and the level of interactions with the online audience. The platform has been uploading 90 videos per month to its Facebook page, and these have been viewed a total of 114,636,340 times, while the number of retweets on the portal’s Twitter account exceeded one million.
Dubai Future Foundation launched Mostaqbal Portal to boost Arabic-language scientific content and to disseminate research, studies, articles, visual material and infographic in several areas related to science and technology, including space science, advanced health sciences, artificial intelligence, networking, and general scientific
studies, among others.