As websites become civilized interfaces for all the institutions in the world, they have formed an important position in attracting audiences, directing them and providing services and even developing work, completing and implementing many of the tasks required by the service reality in general or educational reality, particularly in universities. Our university has made abundance of gains in this space through its website, which saves a lot of time and effort for the benefit of educational infrastructure and scientific research.Due to its importance, the university focused on supporting ,expanding and activating the work of the website with a set of measures and scientific discrete mechanisms that serve the society mainly through serving the researcher as a professor , a student or an associate, so the university is interested very much in the development of knowledge and science through the latest developments and technological improvements especially in the field of electronic communication. Accordingly the university holds many meetings to employees of the websites to develop the reality of work through a series of academic activities and meetings,such as workshops or specialized courses, or scientific conferences and symposiums.
What the University has carried out recently is a scientific achievement added to the advanced scientific achievements in the electronic field and digital communication, where the university established a workshop for the development of websites, and under the patronage of Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdul hussein, President of the University, Assistant Professor Dr. Osama Fadhil Abdul latif ,Dean of the college of Engineering –Al-Khawarzmi attended the workshop and most of the employees of the websites of colleges and institutes and formations of the University also attended the workshop. A number of important topics has been discussed during the workshop to improve the performance of the websites to be in advanced ranks within the international rankings. The themes and mechanisms of evaluation and review of the performance of the websites also have been discussed, besides the electronic publishing topics, the barriers and administrative mechanisms and independent websites, and the superiority of our university over other Iraqi universities and some American and European universities in webometrics ratings and “Qs” also has been discussed, which our university has taken over the other Iraqi universities entering the rating for the third year successively.
Prof. Dr. Alaa’ Abdulhussein ,the University President attended the workshop and delivered an important speech addressing the officials of websites, stressing the desire of the university to have objectivity within the websites that serve the scientific research and the university alike, and to serve the society that awaits more scientific achievements. In addition the websites should be within the implementation mechanisms and collective joint work that achieves virtue and rejects vice through the topics displayed in the websites, and that there should be a smooth of the work of the websites of colleges, institutes and all formations of the university, within non-traditional mechanisms of action that are beyond routine stages that may hinder the work of websites. He also confirmed that the web sites are not only interfaces of the University but for society as a whole, explaining in his speech to employees of the websites that the university is keen of its scientific reputation and prestige which is through the reputation of the websites.
He, furthermore, added that he rejects any address that is out of interest to the university, stating: ” I might overlook any speech about me or criticizing me but I reject any criticism reduces the status of the University and its prestige and place .being a mother for us all, and we have to be loyal to the University .It is illogic that we criticize without work, but we have to work in order to avoid any criticism”. the university president also explained that the work in the websites is qualitative and not quantitative, which is why we needed more efforts and urged more cooperation and more precise follow-up, then he asked to listen to all the problems or obstacles encountering websites at colleges ,institutes and all formations to discuss them and find appropriate solutions.The website administrators reviewed a set of ideas ,attitudes and some of the obstacles facing their work, praising the university and its support for the electronic effort, which achieved quality jumps in performance and university work within standard time, also some associates explained their urgent needs to expand the work of the websites and within large authority , so that to enter within the international rankings of colleges, as some university colleges are included in some of the international rankings. Moreover, some associates emphasized the need of Central work with the University’s central website.And not to disperse some of the websites with colleges journals in separate locations of the central website of the university because this is not of the interest of the discreteness of the central website of the University, it also needs additional energies and efforts and possibilities that may disperse the work or overburden the central website.
The president instructed to provide all supplies that develop the electronic work by writing down all the actual needs of websites to be provided , as well as he instructed to submit a study about the centralization of the website and its relationship to some websites of colleges .He also expressed his thanks and appreciation of the associates and their eagerness to develop the websites, stressing at the same time on some associates who did not attend such developmental meetings, instructing to direct inquiries for not attending the workshop, and to have their presence within the indicators of performance assessments , so that the work is more rewarding and eagerness and to have more objective assessments that adopt more meaningful and more considerate standards of some colleges that have less number of students and departments than the rest of the colleges through mechanisms and standards in this aspect that take into account all circumstances . The President of the University directed to give a letter of thanks to the website for winning the first position in the ratings of the university, and then he watched some films and Graphics carried out by websites associates, praising their scientific efforts and whoever offers ideas or working papers during the workshop. Our website team provided a working paper for the workshop and presented “Promotion” and some graphic posters of the website, then the associates requested memorial photographs with the President of the University. The website team documented this meeting with a series of photographs.
