President’s “Cairo Initiative” Celebrates a Year of Progress | The White House

President’s “Cairo Initiative” Celebrates a Year of Progress | The White House: "President’s “Cairo Initiative” Celebrates a Year of Progress
Posted by Erin Szulman on June 04, 2010 at 12:20 PM EDT

On Tuesday, June 8, OSTP Director John Holdren will provide keynote remarks at an event commemorating President Obama’s June 4, 2009, speech at Cairo University, which called for deepening relations between the West and Muslim communities around the world. In that speech, President Obama described how America’s strength in science and technology could be enlisted to forge partnerships with Muslim communities and help solve many of our shared challenges. He spoke of appointing a team of “science envoys” to collaborate on programs to develop new sources of energy, create green jobs, digitize records, purify water, and grow new crops. And he spoke of launching a new fund to support technological development in Muslim communities and help transfer ideas to the marketplace to create more jobs."