Project Details


WSIS Prizes Contest 2019 Nominee

Jouf University Website


Description

Knowing that the University website –as for all organizations- is an ongoing and continuous programme, Jouf University insist in a cost effective website development for this programme with a very high development standards. The JU website to introduce the academic and social aspects of the university with ease of use to help internal and external users. The new website is based on the utilization of an open source framework to save licenses cost and was developed in-house and evolves in accordance with the business needs. Typo3 was used as content management system for the University website.
Even though that the new website costs only $40,000 compared to $800,000 for the old website, it fits exactly with the University strategic goals more than the former one with less cost and can be easily customized by University own highly skilled staff. The staff got their skills in Typo3 by improving their knowledge without any training cost. The University strongly believes that this programme features introduce contributions towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.

Project website

http://www.ju.edu.sa


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C7. E-learning 2019
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 4: Quality education
  • Goal 9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Global digital compact (GDC) objectives related to this project None

Coverage
  • Afghanistan
  • Albania
  • Algeria
  • Andorra
  • Angola
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Argentina
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bahrain
  • Barbados
  • Burundi
  • Belgium
  • Benin
  • Bangladesh
  • Bahamas
  • Bhutan
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Burkina Faso
  • Bolivia
  • Botswana
  • Brazil
  • Brunei Darussalam
  • Bulgaria
  • Belarus
  • Belize
  • Central African Republic
  • Canada
  • Czech Republic
  • Chad (Republic of)
  • Chile
  • Cambodia
  • Cameroon
  • Comoros
  • Colombia
  • Costa Rica
  • China
  • Croatia
  • Cuba
  • Cape Verde (Republic of)
  • Cyprus
  • Denmark
  • Djibouti
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Democratic People's Republic of Korea
  • Ecuador
  • Egypt
  • El Salvador
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Fiji
  • Finland
  • France
  • Gabon
  • Gambia (Republic of the)
  • Guinea-Bissau
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • Ghana
  • Greece
  • Grenada
  • Guatemala
  • Guinea
  • Guyana
  • Haiti
  • Honduras
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Iran (Islamic Republic of)
  • Ireland
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Italy
  • Côte d'Ivoire
  • Jamaica
  • Jordan
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kenya
  • Kiribati
  • Kuwait
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Latvia
  • Lebanon
  • Lesotho
  • Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
  • Liechtenstein
  • Liberia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Madagascar
  • Malaysia
  • Mauritius
  • Marshall Islands
  • Malta
  • Mauritania
  • Republic of North Macedonia
  • Maldives
  • Mexico
  • Micronesia (Federated States of)
  • Mali
  • Malawi
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro (Republic of)
  • Republic of Moldova
  • Mongolia
  • Morocco
  • Mozambique
  • Myanmar
  • Namibia
  • Nauru
  • Nepal (Republic of)
  • Niger
  • Netherlands
  • Nicaragua
  • Nigeria
  • Norway
  • New Zealand
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Philippines
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Congo
  • Qatar
  • Korea (Rep. of)
  • Romania
  • Rwanda
  • South Africa
  • Samoa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Serbia
  • Senegal
  • Seychelles
  • Sierra Leone
  • Singapore
  • Slovakia
  • San Marino
  • Solomon Islands
  • Somali (Democratic Republic)
  • Spain
  • Sri Lanka
  • South Sudan
  • Saint Kitts and Nevis
  • Saint Lucia
  • Sao Tome and Principe
  • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Sudan
  • Suriname
  • Slovenia
  • Kingdom of Eswatini
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Syrian Arab Republic
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Togo
  • Tonga
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tunisia
  • Türkiye (Republic of)
  • Tuvalu
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Uganda
  • United Kingdom
  • Ukraine
  • Russian Federation
  • United Republic of Tanzania
  • Uruguay
  • United States of America
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Venezuela
  • Viet Nam
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe

Status

Completed

Start date

21 April 2014

End date

25 June 2014


Target beneficiary group(s)
  • Youth
  • Women
  • Indigenous and nomadic peoples
  • The unemployed
  • Remote and rural communities

Sustainability

It contributes to achieving the university objectives relating to provision of information and services to the community at least cost


WSIS values promotion

• Helps users from the local and international community get access to information • Ease of use with well-utilized limited resources • Providing transparency in all of the procedures. • Providing the required information for all users. • Providing all required services for all users. • Providing Continuous update of the important Sustainable Development Goals


Entity name

Jouf University (JU)

Entity country—type

Saudi Arabia Government

Entity website

http://www.ju.edu.sa

Partners

Daleel Co. http://daleelteq.tn/