Hi,
As always, I used to think loudly and share my thoughts with my team/community and I have an idea in mind that is not yet complete but it's worthy to share.
ITA Team has been founded in 10th of of March, 2014 and ever since, the success progress of this project/team is undeniably massive. However, when you live in this world where everything is as fast as light, you need to think faster and react even faster. That said and to keep it short and simple, I'm simply suggesting to go with ITA beyond the huge team with 25 Sub-Teams ... I'm suggesting to expand our scope and focus on Science over all, not just Computer Science :)
What is X Foundation?
If we're going to expand, we need to think of a better name as Iraqi Technological Academy will only refer to two concepts: Technology and Academy and both will never define the new scope which is all about Science and there are lots of branches when it comes to Science: Computer, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, etc, etc.
If we will go for that plan and expand our scope, ITA the one we know which has 25 Sub-Teams will be nothing in size compared to X Foundation :)
X may refer to any name - I have not yet decided what? I have this name in mind: Mesopotamia Foundation but nothing yet final.
"X" itself as a name is good idea too because it may refer to anything and everything and this is all about the new plan. We shall be everything related to science, not just computers.
Why X-Foundation?
If truth to be told, this idea was initially inspired from One Stop Shop Concept. One Stop Foundation/Project/Community that deals with Science and Technologies.
The main reason is one word: IRAQ.
Iraq and Iraqis are in desperate need to such huge project. This project will not be done over night, it will take years to finish but I'm more than happy to go that path no matter how hard it is :)
Imagine 10 ITA Teams, each with 25 Sub-Teams (for example) or even more than just 10 ... can you imagine how huge and vast this community will be?
Iraqi are the best people when it comes to great minds with great thoughts. No doubt about it.
What is the mission?
The hardest part is NOT to setup such foundation, that is not very hard (yet not easy) ... the toughest and hardest part is where, how, and when we shall start to hunt for great minds? if we wish to this HUGE project to be successful, we need to bring people of very high qualifications, skills and experience. We shall call them the builders. Those builders will be in charge of building this huge project and set everything up.
I have lots of ideas in this regard ... we could have online universities with official certificates ... we could have a lot of stuff ... nothing yet in mind but as I said, I'm thinking loudly :)
Challenges
YES. I'm aware of this for sure. It is NOT going to be easy at all but at the same time, it is NOT impossible. Everything is possible if we want it and work hard to achieve it.
For ITA? I had a vision where each of ITA Sub-Team, by time, becomes a huge community by itself. Example? ITA E-Learning Sub-Team - by time - could be a huge E-Learning Centre or University :)
Now, imagine if we go for the X-Foundation plan? each section will be ITA with sub-teams ... this is really huge ...
While no doubt this is great huge idea, I admit it is seriously so hard to achieve for these reasons:
1- 90% of the Iraqi people will NOT understand the real depth/scope of this idea. Sad but true.
2- Currently, we do NOT have the required manpower/resources to do this.
3- Time to achieve such plan considering the above two points will be a lot. We might need 5-10 years or even more. Yes, sad but true. The only chance this will take less is to find people who will quickly understand the idea, join and start to help to achieve this.
4- Lack of experience. Such huge project requires A LOT of power, efforts, etc and above all, enough experience to lead, plan for it and handle it. Who is going to lead all that?
5- Other reasons - nothing more in mind right now in this regard.
How to achieve this then?
The only way to achieve that or let's say 'the best' way to achieve that is to start very very slowly and carefully under one important condition: we should NOT burnout and kill ourselves.
To apply this to reality, IMHO, the best way is to team up with other projects.
For example, there are some projects like:
Also, we must approach Iraqi Universities. Universities will be the secret weapon and the major key player in this project. IMHO, without them, the whole project will collapse and won't ever see the light.
I think this is the best and currently the only way to achieve that. ITA Team right now at this very moment can NOT go for such move unless we team up with some other people. However, we can start to implant the seed slowly without wasting so much time and effort over that. If we could just do this, the seed will grow by time ...eventually, the tree will come up and grow bigger and bigger :)
That is all for now :)
Thanks for reading!
As always, I used to think loudly and share my thoughts with my team/community and I have an idea in mind that is not yet complete but it's worthy to share.
ITA Team has been founded in 10th of of March, 2014 and ever since, the success progress of this project/team is undeniably massive. However, when you live in this world where everything is as fast as light, you need to think faster and react even faster. That said and to keep it short and simple, I'm simply suggesting to go with ITA beyond the huge team with 25 Sub-Teams ... I'm suggesting to expand our scope and focus on Science over all, not just Computer Science :)
What is X Foundation?
If we're going to expand, we need to think of a better name as Iraqi Technological Academy will only refer to two concepts: Technology and Academy and both will never define the new scope which is all about Science and there are lots of branches when it comes to Science: Computer, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, etc, etc.
If we will go for that plan and expand our scope, ITA the one we know which has 25 Sub-Teams will be nothing in size compared to X Foundation :)
X may refer to any name - I have not yet decided what? I have this name in mind: Mesopotamia Foundation but nothing yet final.
"X" itself as a name is good idea too because it may refer to anything and everything and this is all about the new plan. We shall be everything related to science, not just computers.
Why X-Foundation?
If truth to be told, this idea was initially inspired from One Stop Shop Concept. One Stop Foundation/Project/Community that deals with Science and Technologies.
The main reason is one word: IRAQ.
Iraq and Iraqis are in desperate need to such huge project. This project will not be done over night, it will take years to finish but I'm more than happy to go that path no matter how hard it is :)
Imagine 10 ITA Teams, each with 25 Sub-Teams (for example) or even more than just 10 ... can you imagine how huge and vast this community will be?
Iraqi are the best people when it comes to great minds with great thoughts. No doubt about it.
What is the mission?
The hardest part is NOT to setup such foundation, that is not very hard (yet not easy) ... the toughest and hardest part is where, how, and when we shall start to hunt for great minds? if we wish to this HUGE project to be successful, we need to bring people of very high qualifications, skills and experience. We shall call them the builders. Those builders will be in charge of building this huge project and set everything up.
I have lots of ideas in this regard ... we could have online universities with official certificates ... we could have a lot of stuff ... nothing yet in mind but as I said, I'm thinking loudly :)
Challenges
YES. I'm aware of this for sure. It is NOT going to be easy at all but at the same time, it is NOT impossible. Everything is possible if we want it and work hard to achieve it.
For ITA? I had a vision where each of ITA Sub-Team, by time, becomes a huge community by itself. Example? ITA E-Learning Sub-Team - by time - could be a huge E-Learning Centre or University :)
Now, imagine if we go for the X-Foundation plan? each section will be ITA with sub-teams ... this is really huge ...
While no doubt this is great huge idea, I admit it is seriously so hard to achieve for these reasons:
1- 90% of the Iraqi people will NOT understand the real depth/scope of this idea. Sad but true.
2- Currently, we do NOT have the required manpower/resources to do this.
3- Time to achieve such plan considering the above two points will be a lot. We might need 5-10 years or even more. Yes, sad but true. The only chance this will take less is to find people who will quickly understand the idea, join and start to help to achieve this.
4- Lack of experience. Such huge project requires A LOT of power, efforts, etc and above all, enough experience to lead, plan for it and handle it. Who is going to lead all that?
5- Other reasons - nothing more in mind right now in this regard.
How to achieve this then?
The only way to achieve that or let's say 'the best' way to achieve that is to start very very slowly and carefully under one important condition: we should NOT burnout and kill ourselves.
To apply this to reality, IMHO, the best way is to team up with other projects.
For example, there are some projects like:
- ITP
- Fikra Space
- TEDx Baghdad
- etc etc etc
Also, we must approach Iraqi Universities. Universities will be the secret weapon and the major key player in this project. IMHO, without them, the whole project will collapse and won't ever see the light.
I think this is the best and currently the only way to achieve that. ITA Team right now at this very moment can NOT go for such move unless we team up with some other people. However, we can start to implant the seed slowly without wasting so much time and effort over that. If we could just do this, the seed will grow by time ...eventually, the tree will come up and grow bigger and bigger :)
That is all for now :)
Thanks for reading!
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