Development Partners Award
Third Place: Noon Scientific Group Initiative
Winning Justifications:
Noon Scientific Group Initiative was launched in March 2014G as a result of the efforts of a number of volunteers from various Arab countries, who are interested in science, under the supervision and guidance of the initiative launcher. The initiative is a website that publishes articles, videos and infographics in several scientific disciplines, some of which are produced by members of the group (volunteers) while others are translated from reliable sources. The publications cover many disciplines such as (medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry, astrology, biology and engineering, etc.). Noon Scientific Group also participated in several events that focused on the medical and scientific field within the Kingdom. The group's website consists of several sections:
- • Department of Scientific Articles: Cares for writing and translating scientific articles, where the number of articles published on the site has reached (163) scientific articles.
- • Department of Scientific Videos and Meetings: Cares for the publishing and production of scientific videos in various fields, in addition to the publishing of interviews with personalities interested in the scientific field, and live broadcasting of 4 interviews. The number of videos published on the site has reached (16) scientific videos of which 6 clips were produced and designed by members of the group and 10 videos translated into Arabic.
- • Infographics Section: This section provides scientific content designed in the simplest form to the recipient; apart from posting through the group's social media accounts; more than (103) infographics have been posted on this website.
This initiative is considered a scientific, awareness-building, and innovative initiative:
- (Awareness-building): Educates the targeted audience of interested parties and knowledge seekers, by providing them with the right scientific information.
- (Innovative): Is one of the first Arab sites that care for scientific content.
- (Scientific): Draws information from reliable international and internal sources
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