<?php /** * Translation API: Continent and city translations for timezone selection * * This file is not included anywhere. It exists solely for use by xgettext. * * @package WordPress * @subpackage i18n * @since 2.8.0 */ __( 'Africa', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Abidjan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Accra', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Addis Ababa', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Algiers', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Asmara', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Asmera', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bamako', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bangui', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Banjul', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bissau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Blantyre', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Brazzaville', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bujumbura', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cairo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Casablanca', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ceuta', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Conakry', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dakar', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dar es Salaam', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Djibouti', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Douala', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'El Aaiun', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Freetown', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Gaborone', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Harare', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Johannesburg', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Juba', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kampala', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Khartoum', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kigali', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kinshasa', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lagos', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Libreville', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lome', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Luanda', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lubumbashi', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lusaka', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Malabo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Maputo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Maseru', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mbabane', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mogadishu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Monrovia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nairobi', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ndjamena', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Niamey', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nouakchott', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ouagadougou', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Porto-Novo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Sao Tome', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Timbuktu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tripoli', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tunis', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Windhoek', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'America', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Adak', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Anchorage', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Anguilla', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Antigua', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Araguaina', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Argentina', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Buenos Aires', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Catamarca', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'ComodRivadavia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cordoba', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Jujuy', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'La Rioja', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mendoza', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rio Gallegos', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Salta', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'San Juan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'San Luis', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tucuman', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ushuaia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Aruba', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Asuncion', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Atikokan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Atka', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bahia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bahia Banderas', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Barbados', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Belem', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Belize', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Blanc-Sablon', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Boa Vista', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bogota', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Boise', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cambridge Bay', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Campo Grande', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cancun', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Caracas', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cayenne', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cayman', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chicago', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chihuahua', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Coral Harbour', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Costa Rica', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Creston', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cuiaba', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Curacao', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Danmarkshavn', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dawson', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dawson Creek', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Denver', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Detroit', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dominica', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Edmonton', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Eirunepe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'El Salvador', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ensenada', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Fort Nelson', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Fort Wayne', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Fortaleza', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Glace Bay', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Godthab', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Goose Bay', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Grand Turk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Grenada', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Guadeloupe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Guatemala', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Guayaquil', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Guyana', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Halifax', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Havana', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Hermosillo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Indiana', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Indianapolis', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Knox', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Marengo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Petersburg', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tell City', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vevay', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vincennes', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Winamac', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Inuvik', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Iqaluit', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Jamaica', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Juneau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kentucky', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Louisville', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Monticello', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Knox IN', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kralendijk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'La Paz', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lima', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Los Angeles', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lower Princes', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Maceio', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Managua', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Manaus', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Marigot', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Martinique', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Matamoros', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mazatlan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Menominee', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Merida', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Metlakatla', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mexico City', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Miquelon', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Moncton', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Monterrey', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Montevideo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Montreal', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Montserrat', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nassau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'New York', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nipigon', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nome', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Noronha', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'North Dakota', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Beulah', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Center', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'New Salem', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nuuk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ojinaga', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Panama', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Pangnirtung', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Paramaribo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Phoenix', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Port-au-Prince', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Port of Spain', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Porto Acre', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Porto Velho', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Puerto Rico', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Punta Arenas', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rainy River', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rankin Inlet', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Recife', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Regina', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Resolute', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rio Branco', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rosario', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Santa Isabel', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Santarem', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Santiago', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Santo Domingo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Sao Paulo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Scoresbysund', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Shiprock', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Sitka', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'St Barthelemy', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'St Johns', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'St Kitts', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'St Lucia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'St Thomas', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'St Vincent', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Swift Current', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tegucigalpa', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Thule', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Thunder Bay', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tijuana', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Toronto', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tortola', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vancouver', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Virgin', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Whitehorse', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Winnipeg', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yakutat', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yellowknife', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Antarctica', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Casey', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Davis', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'DumontDUrville', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Macquarie', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mawson', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'McMurdo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Palmer', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rothera', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'South Pole', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Syowa', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Troll', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vostok', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Arctic', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Longyearbyen', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Asia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Aden', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Almaty', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Amman', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Anadyr', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Aqtau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Aqtobe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ashgabat', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ashkhabad', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Atyrau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Baghdad', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bahrain', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Baku', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bangkok', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Barnaul', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Beirut', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bishkek', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Brunei', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Calcutta', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chita', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Choibalsan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chongqing', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chungking', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Colombo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dacca', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Damascus', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dhaka', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dili', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dubai', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dushanbe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Famagusta', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Gaza', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Harbin', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Hebron', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ho Chi Minh', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Hong Kong', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Hovd', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Irkutsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Jakarta', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Jayapura', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Jerusalem', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kabul', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kamchatka', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Karachi', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kashgar', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kathmandu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Katmandu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Khandyga', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kolkata', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Krasnoyarsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kuala Lumpur', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kuching', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kuwait', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Macao', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Macau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Magadan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Makassar', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Manila', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Muscat', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nicosia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Novokuznetsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Novosibirsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Omsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Oral', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Phnom Penh', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Pontianak', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Pyongyang', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Qatar', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Qostanay', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Qyzylorda', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rangoon', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Riyadh', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Saigon', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Sakhalin', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Samarkand', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Seoul', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Shanghai', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Singapore', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Srednekolymsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Taipei', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tashkent', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tbilisi', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tehran', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tel Aviv', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Thimbu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Thimphu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tokyo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tomsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ujung Pandang', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ulaanbaatar', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ulan Bator', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Urumqi', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ust-Nera', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vientiane', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vladivostok', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yakutsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yangon', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yekaterinburg', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yerevan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Atlantic', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Azores', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bermuda', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Canary', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cape Verde', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Faeroe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Faroe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Jan Mayen', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Madeira', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Reykjavik', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'South Georgia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'St Helena', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Stanley', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Australia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'ACT', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Adelaide', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Brisbane', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Broken Hill', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Canberra', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Currie', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Darwin', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Eucla', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Hobart', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'LHI', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lindeman', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lord Howe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Melbourne', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'NSW', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'North', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Perth', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Queensland', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'South', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Sydney', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tasmania', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Victoria', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'West', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yancowinna', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Etc', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+0', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+1', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+10', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+11', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+12', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+2', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+3', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+4', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+5', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+6', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+7', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+8', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT+9', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-0', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-1', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-10', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-11', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-12', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-13', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-14', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-2', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-3', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-4', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-5', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-6', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-7', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-8', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT-9', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'GMT0', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Greenwich', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'UCT', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'UTC', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Universal', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Zulu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Europe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Amsterdam', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Andorra', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Astrakhan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Athens', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Belfast', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Belgrade', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Berlin', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bratislava', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Brussels', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bucharest', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Budapest', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Busingen', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chisinau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Copenhagen', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Dublin', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Gibraltar', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Guernsey', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Helsinki', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Isle of Man', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Istanbul', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Jersey', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kaliningrad', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kiev', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kyiv', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kirov', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Lisbon', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ljubljana', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'London', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Luxembourg', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Madrid', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Malta', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mariehamn', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Minsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Monaco', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Moscow', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Oslo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Paris', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Podgorica', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Prague', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Riga', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rome', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Samara', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'San Marino', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Sarajevo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Saratov', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Simferopol', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Skopje', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Sofia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Stockholm', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tallinn', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tirane', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tiraspol', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ulyanovsk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Uzhgorod', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vaduz', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vatican', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vienna', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Vilnius', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Volgograd', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Warsaw', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Zagreb', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Zaporozhye', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Zurich', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Indian', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Antananarivo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chagos', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Christmas', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Cocos', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Comoro', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kerguelen', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mahe', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Maldives', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mauritius', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Mayotte', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Reunion', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Pacific', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Apia', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Auckland', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Bougainville', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chatham', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Chuuk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Easter', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Efate', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Enderbury', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Fakaofo', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Fiji', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Funafuti', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Galapagos', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Gambier', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Guadalcanal', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Guam', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Honolulu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Johnston', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kanton', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kiritimati', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kosrae', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Kwajalein', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Majuro', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Marquesas', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Midway', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Nauru', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Niue', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Norfolk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Noumea', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Pago Pago', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Palau', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Pitcairn', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Pohnpei', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Ponape', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Port Moresby', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Rarotonga', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Saipan', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Samoa', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tahiti', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tarawa', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Tongatapu', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Truk', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Wake', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Wallis', 'continents-cities' ); __( 'Yap', 'continents-cities' );

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في عصر التكنولوجيا الحديثة، ظهرت الروبوتات وكان صنعها قليل ومحدود ، ومن ثم بدأ الموضوع في الانتشار ، وأصبحت الدول الأوروبية هم الأكثر استخداما للروبوتات، بالطبع ان التكنولوجيا تمدنا بالأشياء النافعة لكن لكل شيء يوجد مخاطر وتحديات ، في هذا التحقيق سنعرض هذه الظاهرة ونتناول تأثيرها علي مستقبلنا ، لنفهم كيف يمكننا التصدي لهذه التحديات .

كشفت صحيفة ديلي ميل البريطانية عام 2023 ان احد روبوتات شركة تسلا قام بمهاجمة مهندس داخل المصنع بولاية تكساس الامريكية حيث استطاع الروبوت تثبيت الرجل ثم غرس مخالبه المعدنية في ظهره وذراعه تاركا سيلا من الدماء علي أرضية المصنع .

والسؤال الان الي أي مدي يمكن ان يتكرر هذا العطل ؟

وضح” د/ احمد سعيد “، معيد في كلية حاسبات ومعلومات ، ان هناك العديد من حالات تعدي الروبوتات علي البشر ، وقال ان هناك تقارير عن استخدام الروبوتات العسكرية في النزاعات ، مما ادي الي وقوع إصابات بشرية ، وأضاف ان الأسباب المحتملة تشتمل أخطاء في البرمجة ، وعدم وجود معايير صارمة في تصميم الروبوتات، كما أشار الي ان الروبوتات قد تتصرف بشكل غير متوقع اذا تعرضت لأحداث غير متوقعة او ظروف غير عادية .

كما تحدثت “المهندسة سارة يوسف” ، مبرمجة في شركة تكنولوجيا ، ان الأخطاء البرمجية مثل عدم معالجة الاستثناءات بشكل صحيح او وجود ثغرات في تعليمات التحكم يمكن ان تؤدي الي تصرفات عدوانية ، هذه الأخطاء تجعل الروبوتات تتجاهل أوامر السلامة .

وأشار المهندس ” كريم حسن ” ، خريج كلية حاسبات ومعلومات ويعمل في مجال البرمجة ، الي ان هناك عدة تدابير امنية يمكن اتخاذها ، مثل تطوير بروتوكولات امان صارمة ، واستخدام أجهزة استشعار لتقليل التفاعل غير المرغوب فيه مع البشر ، وتطبيق تقنيات التعلم الالي لتحسين سلوك الروبوتات .

كما اخبرتنا المحامية “نجلاء عبد الرحمن ” ، ان القوانين الحالية لا تغطي بشكل كافي اعتداءات الروبوتات ، وأكدت ان هناك حاجة ملحة لتطوير تشريعات جديدة تركز علي حقوق الافراد و تحدد مسؤليات الشركات المصنعة .

ومع استمرار تقدم التكنولوجيا، يبقى التحدي الأكبر هو ضمان أن تكون هذه الآلات أدوات لخدمة البشرية، وليس تهديدًا لها. من خلال العمل الجاد والالتزام بالمعايير العالية، يمكننا بناء مستقبل آمن ومشرق حيث تتعايش الروبوتات والبشر بسلام.

مايو 24, 2025

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