Self Motivation

Few days ago, Kuwait received 2 awards in technology field. The cermony was part of the World Summit Award (WSA) held in Venice (Italy) as part of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), a global UN backed initiative to promote e-Content.

The 2 awards has gived to:

• Ibsar Software by Sakhr - a unique program offering the blind and visually impaired an effective tool for interaction with modern computer technologies
  


• Arabic Video Phonetics Application by KISR - helps patients to learn the pronunciation of proper Arabic pronunciation with the help of video sequences

WSA chooses the Kuwaiti Eng. Manar Al-Hashash to be one of the boarding directors for World Summit Award, to be the only Arabic member in the community.







After l checked the boarding director list, I found all of them are IT professionals (Directors, Senior Consultant, and Profs) from different countries.

Now the question is, why these two applications nominated in summit and others failed? Why WSA selected Eng. Manar as one of the boarding directors?! Is it because of her angel face?! I don't think so! If you looked to Manar's resume, you will know these facts:

• Computer Engineering graduate, Kuwait University.


• She got her MBA.


• Founder and the General Manager for DotDesign, a software development company


• Owner and Chief of editors for IT magazine "DOT"


• Writer a weekly IT column for Al-Watan newspaper


• She was awarded an IEEE for her outstanding Internet and e-Commerce projects in 2000


• Presents weekly LIVE IT programme called: "Compunet World" on the Kuwait Satellite Channel in Arabic language and another programme on KTV2 called "Zero Ones" in English language.


• Represent Kuwait in the international IT conferences

Manar is truly an amazing personality, and a perfect example of a young and successful female entrepreneur in the Middle East and she belongs to one of the most well-known persons in her region concerning technology, new media and e-Content; personaly I wish a continous success.

On the other hand, most of us wants to be active member in his/her company, create victories, or to be promoted!! But of these things won't happened by magic?!! So let's ask our selves, what did we achieved for the last 2 years?! what is the benefits we offered to the society? In my opinion most of us are waiting for someone else to make everything ready for us without doing the effort! Others are searching for Aladdin's lamb to create the success?!

People, and especially youth should learn to have a long-term plan to assure good and prosperous future. I think there is such a tremendous potential is available and let us try to provide a good example to be active and creative.

Success is not an easy path, and it required a lot of work and study, and the one who will get it need to be a hard worker and a self motivated.