Monday, April 06, 2009

Database and Information Technologies in the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul


Mr. Mohammad Zia Afshar, Deputy Minister of Ministry of Information and Culture of Afghanistan, visited Information Systems and Database Technologies (Informatik 5) at RWTH Aachen University on April 3, 2009. He came to have a training program on database technologies at Informatik 5 in early 2006. He gave interviews and the videos were applied in Virtual Campfire. It is inspiring to hear about the progress happening everyday in the National Museum of Afghanistan in Kabul, after good three years. The museum building was once a palace and was devastatingly damaged in the Taliban Regime. Now the National Museum of Afghanistan has been opened to the public after the relief work. Although the electricity power supply is sometimes instable and the infrastructure is still limited, there are computer terminals accessed by administrators (curators) and museum visitors. They can use computers to enquire and manage museum artifacts. Over 30 ministries for diverse administration tasks have been established in the whole country. Ministry of Information and Culture have launched its Web site. We are proud to be part of the community by hosting Bamiyan Development Community at our group.