Dr. Siddiq Afifi Salon hosted on Monday evening Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh, Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, Mansoura University
--The guest of the salon spoke on the topic of “Digitization and Knowledge Age Technologies and their Impact on the Education and Industry System.”
At the beginning of the symposium, Professor Dr. Ahmed Siddiq, Assistant President of Taiba Academy, welcomed the guest of the salon, Professor Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh, and conveyed to him the greetings of Professor Dr. Siddiq Afifi. He also greeted the attendees and stressed that the salon is honored to host a great scientific figure like Professor Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh.

After that, Professor Dr. Mohamed Al-Banna, the “Salon Secretary,” spoke, who welcomed the guest of the salon, Professor Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh, stressing that he has a distinguished CV. He is a professor of accounting and information systems at the Faculty of Commerce, Mansoura University, and he has many successes and great experiences. He has also held many positions and will speak.
  About an important topic
    “Digitization and knowledge age technologies and their impact on the education and industry systems”
Then Professor Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh spoke, who thanked and appreciated Professor Dr. Siddiq Afifi. He also thanked Professor Dr. Ahmed Siddiq and Professor Dr. Muhammad Al-Banna.

He pointed out that the topic he is talking about is a topic that concerns everyone, noting that he is a professor of accounting and information systems and that he was for a long time the owner of one of the largest programming and information industry companies. He was also an advisor to Dakahlia Governorate and has embraced the issue of digital transformation for years.

He broadcast to the attendees a video from 1998, in which he was a member of the Economic Committee, and Professor Dr. Siddiq Afifi, about distance education, was also speaking in the video.
Professor Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh indicated that he had previously had a working relationship with Professor Dr. Atef Sedqi, who served as Prime Minister of Egypt from 1986 for ten years, and that he was among the experts who studied the GATT Agreement before Egypt signed it, as we participated in 8 rounds of negotiations, after which we signed the TRIPS Agreement.
  He said that 27 years ago, his first book on administrative and strategic accounting appeared, and he noted that when Egypt signed the GATT agreement, we knew that it meant survival of the fittest.

As for education, the GATT Agreement was the reason for the entry of foreign education into Egypt. He added that we signed the TRIPS Agreement regarding intellectual property, and thus we became in an open world, with fierce competition, and the survival of the fittest. I remember that when we signed the GATT Agreement in 1995, they gave us a 10-year transitional period and the meaning of the “GATT Agreement.” The state does not support, dominate, or control prices, but prices are according to market mechanisms because we, as a state, signed the GATT agreement, which includes liberalizing prices.
He said that in light of these agreements, those who run the state are three parties: the government, the private sector, and civil society organizations, but the government does not interfere, for example, in pricing, and he referred to the stages of economic reform.
And restructuring. During this period, we were surprised by the introduction of the computer, as it was preceded by an agricultural revolution, then a first industrial revolution and the emergence of the steam train, then a second industrial revolution that came 80 years later, then the third industrial revolution brought about by the appearance of the computer.

Professor Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh pointed to the fourth revolution, which changed the scales and new technologies emerged. Therefore, we must develop ourselves, especially our academic colleagues.
Because within five years we will see a comprehensive change in our lives, so the future outlook is very important and a must because we are at the level of certain periods.
We lived through the traditional periods, listening to the radio, listening to Baba Sharo and others, One Thousand and One Nights, etc., then black and white television appeared, then color television, then video, then the shower, then satellites.

All soap operas, customs and traditions were broadcast on satellites. Then came what connected everyone, which was the era of the Internet, and there became different cultures and everything began to be transmitted.
Therefore, the one who holds on to his customs and traditions is like the one who holds on to embers. He added that after that we moved to the era of artificial intelligence, which has made a major breakthrough.
Suffice it to tell you that when you search on Google, it brings you everything, but ChatGPT is better than Google.
Since he can write a doctoral thesis for you without it appearing that anyone else did it, he added that we find students in high school who get 100%.
  But they do not know anything, as happened at Assiut University and New Valley University, where 80% of the first-year students in their medical colleges failed. He pointed out that there has become a competition between the human mind and the robot.
He noted the significant impact of artificial intelligence on education
Professor Dr. Samir Abu Al-Futouh added to the multiple uses of artificial intelligence and noted that in the current era there has become a merger, for example, between medicine, science, and computer science. Therefore, there is what is called the knowledge economy, which gives me a product or knowledge component. Therefore, we want to encourage our children about the importance of developing themselves and They have knowledge content indicating that scientific research has a problem in the current period.
For example, whoever publishes scientific research abroad is sometimes through some magazines that receive money and publish scientific research. Therefore, sometimes when there is scientific research, the author of the research must come and present it before the scientific committee. Indeed, sometimes there are highly specialized topics that are not We do not mind bringing in a foreign expert who said that Corona did justice to him using distance education because he has been calling for that since 2001.
He pointed out that years ago he had a program in this matter where three thousand students were given an exam with a password for each student, and the experiment was successful, but due to the weakness of the Internet, this was a weak point.
  He pointed out that in the field of industry, we must encourage young people to create small industries and give them ten years of tax exemption. We also encourage them to enter industries with knowledge content, and I must research