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Digital Egypt platform offers over 125 government services: Communications Minister
This came during his participation in a session organised by the Arab Euro-Mediterranean Organisation for Economic Cooperation via the Internet under the title ‘Digitizing the Economy: Opportunities Across Sectors and Regions.’

Egypt leading smart city adoption in Africa
The level of emphasis on each of the pillars differs between countries, depending on needs and focus of the country

Menoufiya University honours distinguished graduates of Digital Egypt Creativity Centre
The Information Technology Institute (ITI) of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology concluded a number of training programmes offered to young people at the Digital Egypt Innovation Centre in a number of modern technological fields, including embedded systems, internet of things development, introduction to the web, and the development of Android software.

Telecom Egypt expands its international network with submarine cable SEA-ME-WE-6
With the rising demand for connectivity, coupled with the dynamic digital transformations that are triggering higher levels of data transfers from Asia to Europe, the SEA-ME-WE 6 provides an additional layer of diversity and resilience for the high traffic density route between Asia and Europe, strengthening the overall network of each consortium partner.

ITI cooperates with Pluralsight to offer ‘Leaps’ scholarship
‘Leaps’ aims to prepare trainees for international labour market: Heba Saleh

Vezeeta attracts $73m in investment since beginning of its operation
We will continue driving our full services in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, and eye expansion in Pakistan: CEO Barsoum

Vodacom continues to work towards closing the transaction before the end of its FY by March 2022
We believe that through a dedicated focus on financial services, we can promote greater financial inclusion in Egypt: Vodacom Group spokesperson

NTRA allocates new frequencies to Orange with TDD system, for $440m
The NTRA and Orange Egypt signed an appendix agreement to license the mobile services issued to the company to allow it to use the new frequencies.

‘Smart OPPOrtunity Programme’ completes 1st phase of youth training in mobile maintenance
A group of young engineering students participated in nine training sessions on technical knowledge, how to deal with a mobile phone and repair anything in it, with the tenth session being the exam.

Communications Minister studies possibility of establishing technological innovation centre in Beni Suef
The technology zone in Beni Suef includes the outsourcing building, the citizen service building, the training building that houses the Faculty of Engineering at Al-Nahda University, and the companies building.

Fake Android apps are dangerous: learn to defend yourself
Let’s learn more about the dangers of fake apps and how they can compromise your device.

NTRA receives 121,700 customer complaints within 6 months
The report presents the most important indicators related to the complaints of users of landline and mobile services, ADSL, and mobile internet.

Egypt is market of possibilities in digital transformation: Liferay
In 2021, Liferay has over 50 clients throughout Middle East, majority of them are government entities

NTRA issues regulatory framework for IoT services in local market
It comes in line with Egypt’s strategy to foster digital transformation across its different sectors

Egypt exerts tremendous efforts to achieve digital transformation: CorporateStack
Company to expand in Saudi Arabia, North America by 2022: El Haddad

Ericsson survey says ICT helps 83% of people cope with pandemic
5G is, without a doubt, the future, says Andren

Meta: Harmful content can evolve quickly. Our new AI system adapts to tackle it.
To address this bottleneck, we’ve built and recently deployed a new AI technology called Few-Shot Learner (FSL) that can adapt to take action on new or evolving types of harmful content within weeks instead of months. It not only works in more than 100 languages, but it also learns from different kinds of data, such as images and text, and it can strengthen existing AI models that are already deployed to detect other types of harmful content.

Kyndryl launches in Egypt, expresses commitment to help digital transformation
The event brought together dozens of government officials, customers, business partners and members of the press to discuss the advantages of new and emerging technologies in speeding digitalization and innovation as well as spurring the country’s competitive growth.

eAswaaq Misr installs 13 electronic gates in Giza Pyramids area
Last October, eAswaaq Misr operated the latest electronic systems to digitize the point of sale and ticket system.

Opinion| The human being and technology
The Global Forum developed important visions for a number of the most dangerous issues of concern to the labor market, whether in the Arab region or the world in general, such as how to prepare and qualify students and young researchers for future jobs, the needs of local and international labor markets in light of the repercussions of the Corona pandemic, and rapid changes in employment skills and demand on the labor market.

Orange Egypt, German Development Cooperation inaugurate 7th Orange Digital Center in Africa and Middle East
Orange and the German Development Cooperation inaugurated the 7th “Orange Digital Center” (ODC) in the heart of Cairo, an ecosystem highly dedicated to the development of digital skills and innovation to train young people in digital technology to enhance their employability. The event was attended by representatives of Germany and France, GIZ Egypt as the …

Government launches AI-enabled system to enhance agriculture process
The conference witnessed the announcement of the pilot launch of the “Hudhud” smart assistant project for farmers, an Arabic mobile application that relies on artificial intelligence techniques to provide guidance to farmers on several topics in the agriculture process.

NTRA raises efficiency of mobile services in Sinai with EGP 513m investment
According to a press release issued by the Authority today, NTRA will finance raising the efficiency of services in the governorates of North and South Sinai through its comprehensive service fund. It is the fund concerned with financing the projects of the national plan for communications and information infrastructure to provide basic communications services.

Simplex aims to export CNC machines to 15 Arab, African countries
Talks with Arab Organization for Industrialization to produce CNC machines: Shaaban

BI-Technologies launches ‘Mandoobi’ app for food industry merchants
In addition, there is the Payment Processing app, which processes payments of food and consumer commodities in cooperation with Fawry FMCG. The e-invoicing, and other applications, activate financial inclusion and transformation to keep pace with the requirements of the times, as these specialized solutions are suitable for the food industry and distribution sector.

Orange Egypt Continues its Sponsorship for iRead Awards Ceremony
iRead this year featured almost 10,000 powerful voices, 1,000 short stories, 100 writers and novelists

12 digital gangs have targeted Egypt since beginning of pandemic: Kaspersky
The reports included information on threats and investigations related to digital gangs targeting Egypt, which ranks third in the number of reports issued by all Middle Eastern countries, making it one of the most targeted countries in the region.

Communications Minister in Dubai for 4th Global Manufacturing & Industrialization Summit
200 government officials, global industry leaders will participate in summit

Orange Egypt Continues to ProvideFree SIM Cards for the Educational Tablet
In cooperation with the Ministry of Education

Egypt ranks 4th in Africa, 8th in Arab world in Internet speed in 2020
Egypt ranked fourth in Africa and eighth in the Arab world in the Internet speed index, in which the average Internet speed increased to 45.9 Mbps in 2020 from 6.5 Mbps in 2019.