Every year, Algeria celebrates some of the historical achievements it achieved after independence, such as the anniversary of the nationalization of fuels, and in the future it will celebrate the first batch of Ghar Jbeilat iron, or Bilad Al-Hadba phosphate. These are all economic achievements that brought money, self-confidence, and freedom from dependency on others. In the future, it may celebrate its self-sufficiency in water, food, and industry.
But the great achievement that Algeria has achieved in the recent period is the establishment of the Supreme Council of the National Scientific Community Abroad, which includes 31 members, all of whom are geniuses in various sciences, who have established scientific systems followed by major countries such as Japan, the United States of America, Sweden, and Australia…
When we know that Professor Elias Zerhouni and Professor Belkacem Haba are among the members of this distinguished council, we anticipate endless goodness, and when we know that this council will remain under the auspices of the presidency, which dismantles obstacles and infuses potentials, we realize that the mistakes of the past, when we watched helplessly, the fruits of our crops being harvested from distant countries, are gone, and those good fruits have even returned to their good land.
If the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research summarized the benefit of establishing this council, through the contribution of diaspora scholars to the development of the country, providing consultations and expertise, and the transfer of modern technologies, then the current scientific development, which is close to the distant future, makes the bet almost guaranteed for a rapid and accurate transfer of technology in multiple fields.
Algeria has spent many decades trying to take advantage of football players who were born and trained in French training centres. It succeeded in kidnapping some of the athletes who gave it gold and titles in the form of Riyad Mahrez and Killia Nemmour, and it never paid attention to the Algerian scholars who create the spring of major international universities, even though the task is easy and simple, far from the quirks of playing football, because all Algerian scholars studied in Algerian institutes and universities, and are connected to them. In the country, there is nothing wrong with a second nationality or sporting choice in which the football player seeks greater fame and more money.
Granting Professor Kamal Sanhaji the presidency of the National Health Agency is an elegant decision that gave us a lot of health security from a man who participated in a lot of scientific research that awarded France the Nobel Prize in Medical Sciences, and the fruits of his work began to take shape in the health sector in particular.
Despite the many shortcomings and improper performance of some frameworks, anyone who does not recognize some university, scientific and health development is denying the truth, of course if he takes into account the long years of loss that linked the university to the number of students and academic certificates distributed, and not to their quality and the usefulness of those certificates.
The Father of India, Mahatma Gandhi, advises humanity not to despair of knowledge when he says: “Live as if you will die tomorrow, and learn as if you will live forever,” and Albert Einstein pushes people to push for science when he says: Wisdom is not the product of education, but rather the product of the continuous attempt to acquire knowledge.”
As soon as we know that a higher council for the national scientific community abroad has been established, that it includes the “core” of international universities and laboratories, and that its work is taking place under the auspices of the presidency, we realize that we are facing a great achievement, indeed it is the largest achievement in the history of independent Algeria.
