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TechKnowledge has been named the ‘Digital Business of the Year’ at the SME Gulf Capital Digital Business of the Year Award ceremony held on September 25, at the Ritz Carlton DIFC, Dubai.
The Awards identify start-ups, innovative SME’s with exemplary products and services, the SME’s who invest in their employees’ environments, customer strategies and the visionary entrepreneurs leading them.
In presenting the award, the judges noted how TechKnowledge has created products that are a perfect fit for the needs of our society. Specifically included in the judge’s acknowledgement were the contributions and excellence of the Techknowledge distribution business, Al Manhal, Nahla wa Nahil, and DeepKnowledge.
According to the UAE Ministry of Economy, the SME sector represents more than 94 per cent of the total number of companies operating in the country and provides jobs for more than 86 per cent of the private sector's workforce. In Dubai alone, SMEs make up nearly 95 per cent of all companies, employing 42 per cent of the workforce and contributing approximately 40 per cent of Dubai's GDP. The UAE Government has ambitious plans to enhance the contribution and performance of the SME sector.
Since 2012, Gulf Capital and MEED have annually presented the SME Awards identifying the UAEs SME growth champions and recognizing the organizations and people who are contributing to the ongoing development of this critical and challenging part of the UAEs economy.
Digital Business of the Year
Open to any UAE business trading online, this award is presented to the candidate that best demonstrates consistent growth and strong financial performance from e-commerce. Judges look for evidence of concept and product development, exceptional implementation, customer engagement & functionality and innovation. Also critical to the criteria is how the company been successful in delivering key goals, competitor advantage, growth and innovation. Judges also look for excellence in customer service, future growth plan, how the business is developing its employees and the leadership of the business.
About the Gulf Capital SME Awards https://smeawards.meed.com/
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Combination creates powerhouse platform to drive EdTech innovation

Al Manhal FZLLC (“Al Manhal”) and TechKnowledge FZLLC (“TechKnowledge”), two of the most innovative EdTech providers in the Middle East and North Africa, formalized their merger on October 1, 2018.  The merged company will be privately held and operate under TechKnowledge General Trading LLC and the companies will combine business operations over the coming year.  The merger creates one of the most comprehensive education technology and learning solutions providers in the industry.

Mohamad Al Baghdadi, the co-founder and CEO of Al Manhal and TechKnowledge has been named as CEO of the merged company and Rany Al Baghdadi, the co-founder and President of TechKnowledge and Director of Al Manhal, has been named as President.  Both Mohamad and Rany will work together with management to ensure a smooth and successful transition to a single company.  After the merger, the company will have headquarters in Dubai with a significant office presence in Amman, Cairo, Riyadh, Ankara, Istanbul and Oxford. 

“We are very excited to bring together our two operating companies,” said CEO Mohamad Al Baghdadi “The combination of Al Manhal’s software development and electronic publishing expertise and TechKnowledge’s extensive sales, training and distribution infrastructure creates unparalleled value for our suppliers, partners and customers.”

Over the past 15 years, Al Manhal and TechKnowledge have enabled over 2500 libraries and 3 million students to benefit from digital learning resources.
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The new merged company, with 130 employees across the region, will continue to drive EdTech innovation and provide its customers with world-class levels of support.

About Al Manhal
Al Manhal is the leading global provider of full-text searchable databases of Arabic scholarly and scientific publications, as well as creator and publisher of Nahla wa Nahil, the leading Arabic leveled reading program for K-5.  ‘The Al Manhal platform’ provides over 3 million students, researchers and professionals with access to hundreds of thousands of full-text searchable and downloadable Arabic eBooks, eJournals, eTheses, intelligence reports, conference proceedings, and videos.

About TechKnowledge
TechKnowledge is the leading specialized electronic information solutions provider in the Middle East, partnering with the world’s leading publishers, scientific societies, and education technology companies. Through these partnerships and its in-house developed e-library platform service, ‘DeepKnowledge’, TechKnowledge provides universities, schools, medical, corporate, and government libraries across the Middle East with the most authoritative electronic resources and learning solutions.  ‘DeepKnowledge’ provides librarians with a vast range of integrated modules allowing them to control access, manage subscriptions and trials, review usage analytics, and manage all content of the e-library.
 
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www.almanhal.com

​TechKnowledge, the leading specialized electronic information solutions provider in the Middle East, is proud to be partnering with Ain Shams University, the third oldest university in Egypt, to provide Scifinder for three successive years.

Techknowledge partners with the world’s leading publishers, scientific societies, and education technology (edtech) companies to provide universities, schools, and medical, corporate and government libraries across the Middle East with the most authoritative electronic resources and learning solutions.

Ain Shams University, founded in July 1950, comprised a number of distinguished faculties and academic institutes, which were later developed into university. Ain Shams University has played an undeniable role in developing the cultural and scientific life in Egypt and enriching human knowledge in general.

SciFinder is a discovery tool provided by Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) for chemical structure & reaction and forward cited-reference searches. Searches are performed across select Chemical Abstracts databases and Medline, which covers many disciplines such as biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, and agricultural science.
SciFinder® is a research discovery application that provides unlimited access to the world's most comprehensive and authoritative source of references, substances and reactions in chemistry and related sciences.

This new partnership will enhance the digital learning and experience for students, teachers and researchers at the university and empower the entire institute with unlimited access to the world’s most trusted and comprehensive chemistry information. Taking the whole teaching and learning process to the next level.

Over 100 Years of Award-Winning Content

World Book combines technology with traditional editorial excellence to produce authoritative, trustworthy and unbiased information.

Whether intelligence is artificial or human, it needs input! In this catalog, you will find well-designed, instructive, and trustworthy input for all the intelligences in your classroom, school library, or public library!

See the full list of print books now by clicking on this link to download the print product catalog:
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VitalSource and Al Manhal Collaborate for Increased Access to Digital Learning Materials in Middle East
VitalSource®, the world leader in building, enhancing and delivering digital course materials, and Al Manhal, the leading publisher of full-text searchable electronic databases of scholarly, professional and peer-reviewed content from the Arab World, are now collaborating to expand the reach and delivery of Al Manhal’s unique content collection from over 450 Arabic language publishers.
“Al Manhal has become well known and highly regarded in the Arabic academic community in a relatively short time”
By working together, Al Manhal’s expansive collection will now be deliverable through VitalSource Bookshelf®, the most widely used higher education digital-content platform in the world.
“Al Manhal has become well known and highly regarded in the Arabic academic community in a relatively short time,” said VitalSource® Managing Director for EMEA and Asia Pacific John Donovan. “Its collection of Arabic-language scholarly resources is unrivalled and we are proud to help deliver that content to learners throughout the region.”
“This strategic alliance between our two companies will enable publishers and students of Arabic textbooks to finally make the same shift from print to electronic that is happening in scientific, technical and medical education across the world,” said Mohamed Al-Baghdadi, President and CEO of Al Manhal. “We are now able to empower students in Arabic humanities and social science programs with the same digital textbook platform that millions of students around the world are benefitting from. The result will be a dramatic impact on the quality of learning and education (and publishing) across the Middle East.”
About VitalSource: VitalSource Technologies LLC, part of Ingram Content Group LLC, is improving the learning experience by making it easier to create and deliver effective and affordable content. The preferred choice among educational institutions and companies for digital learning materials, VitalSource® helps over 1,000 educational content providers create and deliver seamless interactive learning experiences through its exclusive Bookshelf® platform to millions of learners at 7,000 institutions. Bookshelf users opened more than 20 million digital textbooks last year and read more than 3.4 billion pages.
About Al Manhal: Founded in 2010, Al Manhal provides a reliable, transparent and efficient platform to enable the publishing community in the Arab world to maximise the regional and global exposure of their intellectual assets and in turn generate income streams to fund research activities. The platform empowers the academic and research communities with cost effective access to the region’s high quality academic and professional research content through access to the most advanced research tools to search and interact with Arabic documents.

​Read the full story on Business Wire on the following link:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170913005151/en/VitalSource%C2%AE-TechKnowledge-team-Provide-Digital-Learning-Solutions

For the first time this year, the World Economic Forum and the International Finance Corporation have partnered to bring together 100 Arab world startups, which are shaping the future in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR).
TechKnowledge is very proud to announce that our sister company Al Manhal, the leading Arabic electronic information provider, is one of the 4IR Startups selected.

These 4IR Startups were selected in collaboration with the region’s leading authorities on the entrepreneurship ecosystem, including Wamda, Flat6Labs, Kawar Investments and Leap Ventures.

Together, these bright spots are enabling a generational transformation in the Middle East and North Africa.

For more information on the World Economic Forum, please click here.

The UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention, represented by the Training and Development Center in Sharjah, recently organized the Annual Honoring Ceremony for its partners in recognition of their role and efforts in enhancing institutional cooperation and achieving its strategic objectives.
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The ceremony was held in the presence of H.E. Awad Bin Saghir Al Ketbi, Undersecretary for Ministry's Support Services Sector and was attended by representatives of the Ministries, government organizations, universities and schools.

TechKnowledge was honored to receive a certificate of appreciation for the distinctive contribution, from the Training and Development Center of the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Health & Prevention at the award ceremony.

TechKnowledge is very glad to announce its new partnership with the leading educational publisher of books and digital resources for today's libraries and schools, ABDO.

Since 1985, ABDO has been a leader in children’s PreK–12 educational publishing for school and public libraries. We have earned a reputation for providing the best in reading and research for children and young adults while delivering unsurpassed customer service.
ABDO is known throughout the industry for its high-quality design and content and excellent customer service. Their goal is to bring new and exciting products to young readers everywhere.
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Techknowledge is proud to announce its new partnership with the largest children’s book publisher in the world, Scholastic.

Scholastic is entrusted with the promotion of literacy through books for millions of kids of all ages and reading levels. With support from teachers, parents, and schools, children choose from Scholastic the books they want to read, and discover the pleasure and power of reading. Finding the right book at the right time can light an emotional spark within children that motivates them to read more, understand more, and read joyfully.

View the publisher's details and products at:
​http://www.techknowledge.me/Scholastic.html