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"… e-health programs to bring better diagnostic and health services to a wider segment of the Egyptian society"

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The Government of Egypt and its Ministry of Health have established several e-Health programs to bring better diagnostic and health services to a wider segment of the Egyptian society. MCIT has facilitated the integration of ICT in health services and the provision of medical education to remote or underserved areas of Egypt. The e-health initiative is inspired by pursuing equal opportunities for health services anywhere in Egypt, and expanding medical insurance to all citizens.
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"The main drive of the e-Government initiative is to modernise the citizen's experience of public services and to improve the functionality of the Egyptian government..."

Egypt’s Information Society, Oct 2005

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

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Prohibited from Transaction System Network

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Egyptian Geography Network (EGN) Project

Sheikh Zayed Geographic Information Systems Unit

e-Commerce Map for Alexandria Chamber of Commerce

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National Organization for Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage

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"e-content production is a key step in the establishment of a knowledge society"

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The digital content industry encompasses the creation, design, management and distribution of digital products and services and the technologies that underpin these activities. Egypt places high regard in developing and distributing Arabic e-Content that forms the basis of intellectual and cultural inspiration for future generations. Accordingly, MCIT has led the way to the establishment of an e-content industry in Egypt through its Arabic e-content initiative. This initiative aims to enhance the competitiveness of the Egyptian e-content industry by supporting the production, use and distribution of Arabic digital content on global networks.
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Memory of the Arab World

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"Increasingly present in all forms of human activity, ICT is fundamental to the progress of society"

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Greening ICT, or applying user-friendly policies, has become a dire need. Environment protection is an important issue for human safety, for sustaining social and economic development, and for preserving natural gifts for next generations. ICT tools, widely spread currently, constitute very important potential for protecting environment, creating solutions for decreasing toxic emissions by other sectors.
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The Prime Minister Receives ITU Secretary-General

Cairo, 23 February 2012

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His Excellency, the Prime Minister, Dr. Mohamed Kamal El Ganzouri met today with ITU Secretary-General, Dr. Hamadoun I. Touré, coming to Egypt in an official visit for a couple of days.

Dr.Touré discussed with Egyptian officials the current preparations to participate at the World Summit that is scheduled to be held from 5-7 March 2012 in Doha, Qatar, under the slogan “Connect the Arab World”.

Also, ITU Secretary-General, Dr. Touré is to coordinate with the Egyptian officials concerning the recent updates related to this summit. This meeting was attended by the minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Mohamed Salem.

Connect Arab Summit is part of Connect the World intiative series by 2015, which has been launched many years ago by the ITU. This Summit brings together all countries in the Arab region..A number of world leaders, top government leaders, concerned ministers, telecommunications regulatory authorities’ leaders, top officials of the communications industry and international and regional organizations are the main attendees of the summit.

This summit is assigned to study the means to provide necessary human, financial and technical resources to boost the development of ICT sector, considered as the engine of the world economy prosperity and the sustainable development in the Arab region, especially the Arab Spring countries.

During Kamel and Touré meeting, Egypt’s official request to the ITU to host the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) and the World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC) respectively in 2014.

The WSIS is an international summit during which the world leaders adopts necessary mechanisms to make use of the potential of the digital rev to serve humanity.

Furthermore, the WTDC aims at setting the ICT development priorities, in addition to reviewing the relevant policies and specifying the ITU development strategies along the coming four years.

Egypt is highly interested in hosting such these international major events, due to the huge political and economic gains that will be in favor of the national interest in this sector.

This also aims at emphasizing Egypt’s potential to host and organize such international conferences and world key events in addition to stressing on Egypt’s distinguished participation.

This also takes part in restoring Egypt’s international status as a key player for the international ICT community. Participating at formulating the agenda of these international events enables Egypt to make its mark and affect the events’ outputs and recommendations. This could help serving Egypt’s national interests and support its approaches on the regional and international levels.

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