The College of Education for Women at University of Basrah organized an electronic symposium on Arab youth and the transformations of the virtual world.
The symposium included several axes, dealing with social change and the accompanying changes in values, trends and different patterns of behaviour, as well as addressing the economic, political and cultural changes and the accompanying fundamental changes in the structure and functions of various social institutions.
The symposium recommended the need to reconsider the role of upbringing tools such as: the family, the school, and the university, as well as emphasizing the need to develop education in terms of quality, and to develop an ethical and educational charter for the various media, whose priorities are to preserve identity and unity among the people and protect societal values.