'Brave New Media' seminar on May 4 at Grand Hyatt Hotel

MUSCAT - The territory once dominated by broadcast TV and print media is being swallowed up by subscription-based narrowcast digital television and the Internet, says Knowledge Oasis Muscat's (KOM) Knowledge Oasis Muscat's (KOM) Mulkie Al Hashmi and organizer of KOM's quarterly Digital Nation seminar program. The changing global media landscape will be the topic of discussion at KOM's 4 May Digital Nation seminar scheduled to be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel. (more)

KOM's blogging seminar on November 10

MUSCAT: As part of Knowledge Oasis Muscat's (KOM) quarterly Digital Nation program and in partnership with Omania e-Commerce; Nawras; United Media Services; and Infocomm, KOM will host a free seminar on blogging scheduled for 7:30pm, Tuesday, 10 November at the Muscat Inter-Continental Hotel. (more)

The panelists for the seminar:

1. Abdullah Al Jufaili (Intilaaqah)

2. Raed Dawood (Nawras)

3. Haitham Al Busafi (Sultan Qaboos University)

4. Zaid Zabanoot (German University of Technology in Oman)

KOM seminar

The ‘Digital Media’ seminar organized by Knowledge Oasis Muscat a couple of days could have been made much better with the inclusion of local bloggers in the panel. The best part was a young blogger defending credibility of blogs versus traditional media, that too in front of a minister. That was truly heartening. There is one more seminar as part of the ‘Digital Nation’ series that will be held in December. Mark your calendars; worth attending for bloggers/new media enthusiasts.

PS: Overheard at the conference: Expect good news on VoIP services in Oman soon!

Big Business Idea Competition

On Saturday evening (July 21st, 2007) I have attended with a couple of colleagues the official launch of Big Business Idea Competition BBIC. A decent crowd of not less than 100 Omani youth were occupying the Sindbad Ballroom of the Crowne Plaza Hotel.

The competition aims on encouraging the Omani youth to take the idea of starting their own businesses as a serious alternative. The common trend among Omani youth is looking for a placement in either the governmental sector or the private sector. Only few of the graduates start their own businesses. One of the major obstacles any fresh graduate might face is raising a capital to fund his/her dream project.

The winner of the competition will be eligible for earning an amount of 4000 OMR (10,500 US $) plus a 2000 OMR (5,250 US $) worth of phone calls and internet usage. Moreover, the winner will be entitled to have an office in KOM with 12-months free rental to start his/her operations from. It’s worth mentioning that a series of free courses and workshops will be held to help the participants with writing business plans and relevant topics.

The sponsors of the competition are Ernst & Young, Ericson, Nawras, Grofin Oman and The Knowledge Mine (TKM) For those of you whom might be interested in joining the competition be informed that the closing date for submission of entries will be September 9^th 2007 (09.09.07)

Related links…

Knowledge Oasis Muscat (KOM)

BBIC inaugurated (Article published by Oman Tribune)

BBIC Workshops Dates

Public Establishment for Industrial Estates (PPEIE)

Those are the brochures distributed in the BBIC launch

Some post cards from PEIE

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