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BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq plans to set up a university for information technology (IT) in a bid to catch up on the rest of the world after almost a decade of sanctions, newspapers said Monday. Higher Education and Scientific Research Minister Abdel Jabbar Tawfic, quoted in the papers, told a Baghdad conference that the university would cover "all aspects of IT."
Ignorance in IT must be wiped out, especially in government institutions, he said, adding it would be part of the curriculum for all postgraduate students in the future. At the same conference, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said the embargo "must not deprive us of development and progress, so as not to serve the aims of our enemies."
In January, President Saddam Hussein called for the computer sector to be developed in Iraq. Some 45 companies, mostly from the Arab world and Asia, took part in a computer fair in Baghdad last week.
Iraq bought 1,000 computers in 1999 for its secondary schools under the oil-for-food program, which allows Baghdad to buy essential equipment with oil revenues under strict UN control. The commerce ministry has lifted taxes imposed on computers and the markets are full of computers despite the embargo, which was imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
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