Under the patronage of His Excellency Eng. Omar Al Kurdi/ the Jordanian Minister of Communication and Information Technology and the attendance of Prof. Naji Abu Rumailah/ President of AL-Isra Private University, Dr. Emad Abuelrub/ ACIT Secretary General, Dr. Ayman Al-Nsour/ Conference Program Chair and Dean of Faculty of Science and Information Technology at AL-Isra Private University, the opening session for the International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT'2005) was inaugurated at 10.00 a.m on December 6, 2005. The attendance included Prof. Faisal AL-Haj/ Assistant Secretary General of Association of Arab Universities, and many participants including guests, specialists, researchers, and online participants from International Palestine University in Ghaza, Palestine.

The opening ceremony started with recitation of Holy Quran followed by the following opening speeches:

Dr. Ayman Al-Nsour/ Conference Program Chair and Dean of Faculty of Science and Information Technology at AL-Isra Private University, gave the first opening speech in which he welcomed the conference participants and guests. He talked about a specially designed management system for conferences that was used by the conference committee which automates the paper submission and the whole reviewing process, then he introduced detailed information about submitted, accepted, and published papers and the participating countries highlightening AL-Isra Private University full support in the preparation for the conference. He concluded his speech thanking the conference Secretary General for the support he offered during the preparation for the conference.

Dr. Emad Abuelrub/ ACIT Secretary General clarified in his talk the idea of this conference since it started six years ago until this meeting. He pointed out that ACIT is an international, scientific, refereed, and specialized conference in information technology that is held annually in one of the Arab universities. Then he added that ACIT is the official conference of the Colleges of Computers and Information Society, stemming from the Association of Arab Universities. It is supervised by an international Steering Committee that is always updated consisting of 23 members representing different Arab and foreign universities. It also has a General Secretariat that is hosted by Zarqa Private University, Jordan and a Technical Committee consisting of 94 scholars and specialist. He also mentioned that the number of the supporting universities has reached 52 Arab universities. He concluded his talk by thanking AL-Isra Private University, its President Prof. Naji Abu Rumailah, Dr. Ayman AL-Nsour/ Conference Program Chair, General Secretariat members, Steering Committee members, Technical Committee members, researches, and all the team at Al-Isra Private University who worked hard to make ACIT’2005 a successful conference. 

Dr. Naji Abu Rumaila/ President of AL-Isra Private University and the Conference General Chair gave a speech in which he welcomed all guests, and stressed the importance of information technology in developing all sectors of life. His speech crystallized AL-Isra Private University deep interest in this field by establishing three new departments at the Faculty of Information Technology.

His Excellency Eng. Omar Al-Kurdi/ Minister of Communication and Information Technology gave a welcoming speech for guests and online participants from International Palestine University in Ghaza. He stressed the role of information technology in saving time, efforts, and money which increased international competition in application of increased technology in various life sectors such as education, health, and e-commerce. His excellency also highlighted the role of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in utilizing information technology and eliciting investment through its young distinguished political and economic resources and good infrastructure. He also introduced the unified electronic government programme. He concluded his speech thanking AL-Isra Private University for its unique efforts and all sectors that offered the needed requirements for the conference. He greeted the participants and wished them success and nice stay in Jordan.

Prof. Naji Abu Rumaila/ President of AL-Isra Private University and Conference General Chair announced the official opening of the conference.

ACIT Steering Committee held its annual meeting that was chaired by Dr. Emad Abuelrub/ ACIT Secretary General on Wednesday 7/12/2005 at AL-Isra Private University. President of AL-Isra Private University attended parts of this meeting and welcomed the attendants.
The main recommendations of the meeting were as follows:

It is worth mentioning that there were 81 participants chosen from 154 total numbers of papers from 24 countries as follows:

1

Non-Arab Countries

27

2

Algeria

22

3

Iraq

10

4

Palestine

9

5

Tunisia

8

6

Jordan

7

7

Egypt

3

8

Yamen

3

9

Oman

1

10

UAE

1

11

Saudi Arabia

1

12

Libya

1

Submitted papers: 154
Accepted papers: 92
Published: 81
Percentage for published papers: 52.6%

Yarmouk University was announced as the host for ACIT’2006.
 
Thanking telegrams were sent to his Excellency Eng. Omar Al-Kurdi/ Minister of Communication and Information Technology. The participants thank Prof. Naji Abu Rumaila/ President of AL-Isra Private University, Dr. Ayman Al Nsour/ Dean of Faculty of Science and Information Technology, Dr. Ahmad Nserat/ Conference General Vice Chair, Mrs. Samya Abu Al-Rub/ Conference Secretary, and all members of organizing committees who worked hard to make this conference a reality. The participants also thank the General Secretariat at Zarqa Private University in Jordan and hope that it will continue to hold this scientific conference annually.