Ministry of ICT Egypt presentation at the Youth Engagement Summit Mauritius

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology - Egypt December 2013

ICT for Youth Engagement A National Priority- Egypt’s Case

Ahmed Darwish,MCIT, Egypt

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology - Egypt 2

BPO Industry in Egypt

ICT for Youth Engagement Strategy

ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline

People with Disabilities (PWDs)

Life Long Learning (LLL)

Community Development

National ICT Strategy


National ICT Strategy| 2013-2017

Digital Socio-Economic Development

The Way forward

to

Prosperity .. Freedom .. Social Equity

Vision


National ICT Strategy| 2013-2017

Main Pillars

Cyber Security & eSignature

Information Infrastructure

& Digital Content

Electronics Design &

Manufacturing

Legislative & Policies

Framework

Digital Society

Government DBs & Applications Framework

Open Source

Egypt Digital Hub

mApps

Building on Egypt unique geographical location

& optimum utilization of Submarine Cables

To become aGlobal Internet Hub

Achieving sustainable socio-economic

development of the Egyptian society through

Digital Identity using ICT Solutions

ICT Industry Programs & Initiatives

Industry Development

O&O

Regional & International Cooperation

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Professional Capacities

ICT Companies Support

Technology Parks

ICT Industry Development,

Creating Job Opportunities&

Attracting Foreign Direct Investments

Basic Infrastructure


Iraq

Indonesia

MalaysiaThailand

MyanmarBangladesh

MoroccoAlgeria

France

Qatar India

PakistanIran

OmanYemen

U.A.ESaudi Arabia

TurkeySyria

Lebanon

Egypt

North Sudan

Ethiopia Somalia

Libya

Mozambique Madagascar

Tanzania

Kenya

GreeceTunisia

DjiboutiSri Lanka

Jordan

Maldives

Taiwan

Brunei

Vietnam

Philippin

e

Japan

Korea

BelgiumUK

Singapore

Germany

Australia

China

Cyprus

ItalyPortugal

Eritrea

South Sudan

UgandaRwandaBurundi

DRC

Youth and Sports

Internal Affairs

Comm

erce & Industry

Electricity

Health

Education & H

igher Education

Tourism

Justice

Financial Services

Agriculture

Transport


National ICT Strategy- Main Pillars

ICT Strategy

Digital Society

Egypt Digital

Hub

Innovation &

Entrepreneurship

Open Source

eContent

Electronic Signature

Electronic Design

&Manufacturing eComme-

rceCommunit

y Developm

ent

Cyber Security

Broadband

International

Relations



ICT for Youth Engagement Strategy

ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline






BPO Industry in Egypt- Highlights

• Revenue: ~1.1B USD (2011)

• Employees: 43,000

• Destinations: Cairo and Alexandria

• Multilingualism: Arabic, English, German, Spanish, Italian.

• Potential: Ranks sixth (A.T. Kearney Index of 2009).



ICT for Youth Engagement

ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline







• Help ALL young Egyptians to compete on the international level

ICT for Education

Egypt Education Initiative

National Initiative to Eradicate Illiteracy

Life Long Learning

Specialized Training

ICDL/ Egyptian Computer

Competence Certificate

Training of Youth Governmental

Employees

Youth Employment Generation Programme


IT Clubs/ TecHomes


Portals

People with Disabilities

Promote Equality in

Educational Opportunities

Training for Better

Employment Initiative




ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline






ICT for Education- Egypt Education Initiative

EEI

Availing Infrastructure

Building eLearning Industry

Human Capacity

Quality Assurance Standards

Creating a Sustainable

Model

Supporting Management

Change

• 2000 Computer Labs• Connecting 1120 schools to the

Internet

• 140,000 Teachers trained on basic ICT Skills

• 5000 School Leaders trained on using ICT and soft skills

• Developed and accredited the national e-learning standards


ICT for Education- National Initiative to Eradicate Illiteracy

• Fahima: • An interactive CD• Reduces the time from 9 months to 5-6 months

• Collaboration with Ministry of Education, Ministry of Higher Education and Ministry of Youth

• Target of Initial Phase: 20 thousand people




ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline






Life Long Learning

• Specialized Training• Information Technology Institute• Customized Programmes• BPO Training

• International Computer Driving License• 2000-2012• 1million Egyptians

• Egyptian Computer Competence Certificate (C3)• 2013• Arabic and English

• Training of Youth Governmental Employees


Youth Employment Generation Program

M/SMEsMicro and Small

Enterprises

YEPYouth

Entrepreneurship Program

Internship

TVETTechnical Vocational

and Education Training




ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline






IT Clubs/ TecHomes

• Phase I:• Started 2001• Objective: Making the technology and internet available

to the grass roots (level C and D)• Around 2200 Technology Clubs were established

• Phase II:• Started 2011• Objective: Act as community service center using ICT• Around 120 TecHomes are established


Technology Clubs/ TecHomes

Community Service Center and a way for

communications between local residents

and the government

Living Room Multimedia Garage

Kids Garden Technology Room

Office Political Area

Internet Room Commercial Area


Community Development Portals

• Free, accessible, comprehensive, user-friendly, and a knowledge carrier are the main characteristics of Kenanaonline.com

Kenana Community Portals

ByotnaOur Homes

AradinaOur Lands

Youm GedidNew Day

AyadinaOur Hands

EradaWell

March 20121.200.000 Pages published on the internet

1,000 Page added daily/ 30,000 per month

85,000 Daily visit

60,000 Unique daily visitor

13,600 Kenanaonline worldwide rank on Internet

20 One of the largest 20 Egyptian portals




ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline






Promote Equality in Educational Opportunities

• Technological Development of 35 “Inclusion Schools”;

• Technological development of all governmental Special Education schools for the blinds;

• Technological development of centers for PWDs at all publcuniversities;

• Development of the unified sign language digital dictionary for supporting Basic Education Schools in Egypt; and

• ICDL for People with Disabilities (PWDs).


Training for Better Employment Initiative

• Training: 400

MCIT

• Employment: 100

ICT Chamber• Financial

support during the 1st

year

MEK

ICTcompanies

ICT companies

ICT companies

•52 PWDs with visual disability were trained on

Telesales

• 16 PWDs were employeed

Public Private Partnership Model




ICT for Education

The Way Forward

Outline






The Way Forward

• eLearning• Content Development

• Social Innovation• Living Labs

PARTNERSHIP

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology - Egypt

Thank You!

Ahmed Darwish, [email protected]

Director, Human Development SectorMinistry of Communications and Information Technology,

Egypt