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Sabri Saidam was minister of telecommunications and information technology in the Palestinian government formed in February 2005. He remained in this position until March 2006, when the Hamas-led government was formed.
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Saidam was born in 1971 in Damascus. He is the son of Mamdouh Saidam, who was a member of the Fateh central committee and was killed by Israeli forces. Saidam holds a BSc in applied physics and electronics from Imperial College London and a PhD in electrical engineering from the same university. In 2004 he obtained a training certificate in the development of human resources from Oxford University. He is a member of the Fateh movement and head of the Palestine Students Union in Britain and works as director of the Institute of Development Studies founded by UNDP in Gaza. He was the group leader of the Birzeit innovation group at Birzeit University has written about e-governance in conflict affected societies. |
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