MCIT was instrumental in introducing e-government in Egypt and extending ICT
into public services. As a general mandate, MCIT supports other ministries in
facilitating e-Government programs and services as part of the Egyptian
Information Society Initiative (EISI). One of the core objectives of the
initiative is to modernize the way citizens interact with their government by
introducing ICTs to the internal operations of government departments and to
their interface with the public.
National Land Registration
System
MCIT has been working with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation
and Ministry of Justice on the Agricultural Land Registry. The project will
enable more efficient settling of ownership disputes and will protect both
state and citizens’ rights. Also the Land Registry Office and the Egyptian
Survey Authority (ESA) are creating simplified automated procedures and
services for electronic transfer of ownership of agricultural lands. This
project began in 2005 with the digitization of maps and the design of databases
for maps and real estate documents, and the integration of both to constitute a
database for geographical information.
Other aspects of the project involve setting the one-stop-shop principle for
land transactions, establishing a web portal to provide e-services to the
public, developing the corporeal registry offices operations and implementing
an information network connecting these offices in cooperation with the
Cadastral Mapping Center of the Egyptian Survey Authority.
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Automation of Notarization
Offices
Automation of Notarization Offices project, a joint collaboration between
MCIT and Ministry of Justice, began with a pilot project in 2004 that automated
four offices out of the 500 authentication offices affiliated with the Ministry
of Justice and the establishments of the data center. The pilot successfully
demonstrated that the reengineered work flow and automation of the
authentication cycle improved processing time by 80%.
A total of 50 notarization offices have been automated and linked to the data
center. The project’s work included establishing a decision support system and
data mining center affiliated to the Ministry of Justice in addition to
providing training to employees from the Real Estate Registry and Notarization
Offices. The automation work of the rest of notarization offices allover Egypt
is expected to take place in the project’s third phase.
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Prohibited from Transaction System Network
MCIT is cooperating with the Ministry of Justice to establish a centralized
database of persons who are prohibited from undertaking real estate
transactions for a variety of reasons. The project has established an
Information Center and database in the Real Estate Publicity Department in the
Ministry of Justice and is currently networked with 30 offices that can issue
these prohibitions. The database is also integrated with Notarization Offices
and the database of Corporeal Agricultural Land Registry.
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Automation of Chambers of Commerce
Economic activity in Egypt is benefiting from MCIT's efforts to provide
better interconnectivity and automation for the Chambers of Commerce and their
local branches nationwide. Aside from the infrastructure (PCs – LAN- Internet
connectivity) the project is automating the workflow of the Chambers and
introducing decision support systems to the Federal Union for Chambers of
Commerce. It also provides training for employees in all chambers on how to use
the new systems.
Learn More:
Federation of Egypt Chambers of Commerce
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Egyptian Geography Network
(EGN)
The Egyptian Geography Network (EGN) is a national network of geographic
information that aims to establish a National Spatial Data Infrastructure
(NSDI) in a highly secured environment to offer citizens, technical users,
investors and decision-makers access to geographic content of organizations
through a web portal.
Learn More:
Egyptian Geography Network -EGN
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Sheikh Zayed Geographic
Information Systems Unit
In an attempt to modernize the Sheikh Zayed city council and improve its
services, the project aims to establish an information center at the council
that includes a fully equipped geographic information system (GIS) and to
deploy software applications that will facilitate services delivery to the
city’s investors and decision makers and other stakeholders.
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e-Commerce Map for Alexandria
Chamber of Commerce
The project comes as part of a cooperation protocol signed in June 2008
with the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce that aims to provide comprehensive and
up-to-date geographic data of the chamber's activities by posting traders data
on maps and allowing analysis and spatial statistics to help decision makers.
The project will also establish a geographic information unit at the Chamber
and an integrated geographic database of all the chamber’s stakeholders on a
map of Alexandria (1:2500). A geographic portal to access the chamber’s data
will be developed.
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General Organization for International Exhibitions
and Fairs (GOIEF)
MCIT signed in August 2008 a cooperation agreement with General
Organization for International Exhibitions and Fairs (GOIEF) to carry out the
upgrade of the technological infrastructure of GOIEF. The project aims at
raising the potential of fairs and exhibitions industry management in Egypt,
developing the relationship between investors and the different governmental
entities, enhancing the competitiveness of the industry following international
standards, contributing to turning Egypt into a digital community, building up
an information society to serve this industry and qualifying the organization's
human resources.
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Infrastructure Development of the City of Luxor
Infrastructure Development of the City of Luxor initiative comes after a
cooperation protocol signed between Minister of CIT Tarek Kamel and Head of
Supreme Council of Luxor Dr. Samir Farag to develop technological
infrastructure projects in the city of Luxor. The step came in the context of a
national project adopted by the political leadership to modernize Egypt.
The protocol aimed at improving the city’s public services, introducing the
Egyptian cultural heritage to tourists, shedding light on various aspects of
the city and optimizing coordination between the Supreme Council of Luxor and
different ministries in this regards.
The protocol encompasses the implementation of and follow-up on a number of
projects including the development of a portal to offer tourists functional and
up-to-date information on the city; the development of IT infrastructure at the
City’s Tourist Information Center, the Suzanne Mubarak Women Center, Mubarak
Public Library, Heritage Center in addition to the automation of Luxor’s land
registration offices and notarization offices.
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National Organization for
Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage
MCIT seeks to develop the infrastructure of the National Organization for
Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage through a project that kicked off in 2008
and aims to link all the organization’s departments through an integrated
institutional information system and establish a geographic information systems
(GIS) unit for the organization.
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Upgrade of the Central Agency for Organization and
Administration (CAOA)
The project to upgrade the Ministry of Administrative Development’s Central
Agency for Organization and Administration (CAOA) is part of the National
Project for Developing Governmental Organizations. The CAOA plans to conduct a
comprehensive upgrade of all the regulatory and operational areas of the State
administrative sectors.
Since 2005, MCIT has cooperated with the CAOA to upgrade the agency's
technological infrastructure and develop an information system serving the CAOA
restructure project. MCIT established a system of servers, computers, printers,
a local network connecting all agency departments, a center for data entry and
verification, an Internet lab and other technical equipment. The cooperation
agreement also called for MCIT to maintain the information infrastructure as
well as to build the regulatory and operational structure of the State
administrative system.
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National Council for Childhood and Motherhood
Child Emergency Hot Lines are being established, along with development of
mobile information centers, the equipping of one classroom schools for girls,
and support for illiteracy programs. In 2008, another mobile information center
was established to help spread NCCM message allover Egypt and another hotline
was created to receive the emergency calls of children with disabilities.
Support for illiteracy programs and training in how to use ICT applications
like multimedia in teaching has been conducted. Development of the information
network at NCCM to support the Child Emergency Hot Line and other objectives of
the council was completed. A portal for youth
www.yomgedid.com has been developed and published. The information
network at the council to support the Child Emergency Hot Line has been
developed.
Learn More:
National Council for Childhood and Motherhood –NCCM
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e-Government Applications
Supporting automation and re-engineering processes for e-government, the
Ministry of State for Administrative Development (MSAD) is now the lead
implementation agency for the e-Government applications and is also responsible
for the
e-Government Portal.
Externally, government services are being made available through the Internet
and this development has been under the auspices of MSAD since mid 2005, and
virtually all of the government’s services are now available online through the
MSAD website.
Learn More:
e-Government Portal
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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems
Another group of activities in support of the EISI initiative on automation
and re-engineering processes for e-Government that MCIT is executing is to
procure and install Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in all
ministries. The package that is currently being deployed includes payroll,
accounting, budget, personnel, inventory and procurement systems, to be
followed by document management and electronic archiving.
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Ministry of Finance
The Ministry of Finance is aiming to automate 1,600 financial units
nationwide by 2010, and connect major financial units with their affiliates.
This project, which began in 2005, will increase efficiency and effectiveness
through the provision of tools for calculating cash flows, and analyzing the
speed of extracting the state’s final balance.
Learn More: Ministry of Finance
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Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
(CAPMAS)
Other government upgrade projects, that include the development of
databases, include a project with the Central Agency for Public Mobilization
and Statistics (CAPMAS) to provide a database of industrial establishments and
products, for the Administrative Supervisory Authority to update its network
and information system.
Learn More:
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics -CAPMAS
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MFTI Economic Databases and Decision Support Services
Economic databases and decision support services are transforming the
operations of many key ministries and government enterprises. For example, the
Ministry of Trade and Industry (MFTI) is cooperating with MCIT and the Egyptian
Public Authority for Standardization and Quality Control. This will establish a
database of standards specifications, with a backlog of data entries from
Egyptian standards, drawing precedents, and quality control. Part of the
project is to develop portals so that MFTI can offer its services online and
manage specifications more efficiently.
MFTI also has an interest in the residue system of the National Export
Supervisory Authority where an information network is being established to
allow data flow between main data collection centers which will also compliment
the Foreign Trade Data Warehouse project. In a similar way, the Ministry of
Supply and Domestic Trade is developing a supply card automation system, using
advanced Smart Card technologies. The project establishes a beneficiary
database of approximately 50 million individuals, and a retailer database of
approximately 40,000. Most of the projects mentioned above provide staff
training on the correct use of the new technologies.
Learn More:
Ministry of Trade and Industry -MFTI
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