{"id":16546,"date":"2025-11-24T10:26:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=16546"},"modified":"2025-11-24T10:26:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T10:26:31","slug":"afghanistan-public-library-joins-eco-digitalization-education-and-research-committees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2025\/11\/24\/afghanistan-public-library-joins-eco-digitalization-education-and-research-committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Public Library joins ECO digitalization, education, and research committees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Information and Culture said in a statement today that Afghanistan&#8217;s Public Library has obtained membership in the &#8220;Digitalization, Education, and Research Committees&#8221; of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).<br>According to the statement, Afghanistan&#8217;s membership was achieved during the seventh meeting of library heads from ECO member countries, held in Turkey, with a delegation led by Dr. Rafiullah Samim, head of the ministry\u2019s libraries.<br>During the meeting, the delegation provided comprehensive information about the current status of public libraries in Afghanistan, recent positive changes, and existing challenges hindering their operations.<br>The statement noted that representatives from ten countries and Asian organizations participated in discussions about developing digital archives among member countries, protecting rare works, and sharing professional capacities and experiences.<br>Additionally, the Afghan delegation engaged with library heads from Uzbekistan, Iran, Turkey, and Kazakhstan to discuss expanding collaborative efforts.<br>Turkey has also committed to providing its newly designed library management system, known as &#8220;Kashaf,&#8221; free of charge to Afghanistan, and will assist in training specialized personnel.<br>This comes as the Ministry of Information is currently establishing a book evaluation commission within the ministry and holding regular meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The Ministry of Information and Culture said in a statement today that Afghanistan&#8217;s Public Library has obtained membership in the &#8220;Digitalization, Education, and Research Committees&#8221; of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).According to the statement, Afghanistan&#8217;s membership was achieved during the seventh meeting of library heads from ECO member countries, held in Turkey, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16548,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16546\/revisions\/16548"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}