His Royal Highness Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, the Head of the General

Intelligence Presidency, launched on Tuesday an internet site dedicated to the Technology and National Security Conference which the GIP will organize under the patronage of the Custodian of the two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz. The Conference will be opened in Riyadh on Saturday the 21-24 and of Dhual-Qadah1428 Hijra, corresponding to the 1-4rd of December 2007 and will be held at the King Fahad Cultural Center. Accompanying the Conference will be an exhibition held at the same venue.
The site contains full fledged details on the conference, its topics, and its workshops. Also mentioned is registration details and how to participate in the conference. There are also instructions for companies and corporations who want to participate in the exhibition.
The site contains information on Saudi Arabia, a link to news, and another to live television coverage. There is as well an abundance of information concentrating on the main themes of the conference, especially IT.
Worth noting is that the Royal Court had earlier given its approval for the Presidency to organize the conference which aims at providing an opportunity for researchers and those interested, to meet and discuss issues related to the applications of modern IT in the field of security.
The topics to be covered by the conference include:
The role of IT in bolstering social security, the role of IT in bolstering economic security, the role of IT in political security, IT in the service of security personnel, and IT applications in the field of national security.
The scientific committee will soon extend an invitation to attend the conference, to a host of noted scholars, researchers, and those interested in IT and national security, both inside and outside the Kingdom especially countries advanced in these fields.
The exhibition, held on the sidelines of the Conference, will be about IT, and local and international companies specializing in IT will participate in it.

The address of the conference on the internet is: http://www.itns.org.sa/, while the phone number to contact is: 0096612460013. The fax number to contact is: 0096612464713