The Chairman of Egypt Post Sherif Farouk and the Secretary General of the Pan African Postal Union (PAPU) Sifundo Chief Moyo have met to discuss enhancing cooperation in postal services, express shipping, and e-postal services, on the sidelines of the third session of the Council of Administration (CA) of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in Switzerland. They exchanged experiences and how to disseminate and implement Egypt Post’s success in developing the infrastructure and introducing new services fulfilling customers’ needs.

Digital Egypt Platform delivers numerous government services that citizens can easily access online, without having to visit service providers. These services include court, supply, social insurance, notary, vehicles, real estate, commercial registry, and civil status, among others.

Deputy ICT Minister for Administrative Development, Digital Transformation, and Automation Khaled El Attar has stated that MCIT has been employing modern technologies to serve citizens’ interests. The Ministry is looking into ways to enable access of Egyptian expatriates to Digital Egypt Platform, he added.

Digital Egypt Platform delivers several e-services that can easily be accessed, without having to visit service providers, including civil status, commercial registry, social insurance, and real estate taxes, among others. To access these services, citizens have to create an account on the platform and fill in the required data. These data include filling in the ID number, phone number, and others.

Telecom Egypt has announced the successful landing of the 2Africa submarine cable system in Port Said. This marks the second and final landing of the cable in Egypt, five months after the first landing in the Red Sea city of Ras Ghareb.

The President of the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) Hossam El-Gamal has delivered a speech at the Future of Data Centers Summit. He touched on emerging technologies and business development strategies employed to build a digital future and serve societies across different aspects of life.

The Deputy ICT Minister for Administrative Development, Digital Transformation, and Automation Khaled El Attar has revealed that 11 combined services will be provided on Digital Egypt platform during the coming period. They will include about 100 subservices using Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications to update citizens’ databases continuously. He also underlined that the platform has been developed to facilitate citizens’ access to all automated government services.

The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) has launched the Qualifying for Employment (Q4E) program to bridge the gap between the hiring needs and skills demand in Egypt by increasing the talent pool and developing the skills required for local and global companies in designing and manufacturing electronics. Enjoying various competitive advantages, Egypt promotes its capabilities and position in this field, within the framework of Egypt Makes Electronics (EME) initiative.

Egypt has established itself as a major country of transit for data. More than 90% of the Asia-Europe data traffic crosses the Egyptian land territory and waters. The country is also the world’s second largest host of crossing submarine cables through its shores.