Africa IoT & AI Challenge officially launched
Benya empowers African youth through technology challenges such as the Africa IoT & AI Challenge
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Data, AI, e-payment most important for Egypt’s digital transformation: Experts
Egypt’s e-finance sponsors Pafix for seventh consecutive year
ITI, Google sign agreement to train 30k youth on AI
The cooperation agreement was signed by ITI head Heba Salih and Matt Britten, President of Google, for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The signing took place via video conference, and was witnessed by Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat.
Egypt, France discuss joint cooperation on AI, entrepreneurship
The two ministers discussed ways to enhance Egyptian-French cooperation in a number of communications and information technology (CIT) fields. The talks focused particularly on capacity building, providing support for entrepreneurship, as well as research and development in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
Egypt makes great strides in implementing AI national strategy: CIT Minister
Talaat pointed out that an ambitious programme for capacity-building has been launched with the aim of providing knowledge of artificial intelligence to all segments of society. As part of this, a comprehensive programme will be launched to educate all government employees on the uses of AI, to make government operations more efficient and transparent.
Big data analysis contributes to preventive medicine development: AI expert
Egypt has potential to improve healthcare system particularly with youthful population, says Mostafa
AI in 2020: from experimentation to adoption
Results from the Roadblocks to Scale survey indicate that while there is still work to be done, advances in data discovery and management, skills training, and AI explainability are driving the rate of AI adoption faster than many predicted.
Japanese companies keen on investing in Egypt’s AI, CIT sectors: embassy
Cairo, Tokyo enjoy longstanding, diverse economic cooperation, says official document
Ministry of Communications aims to attract specialised agencies in AI from France, Japan
Radwan added that the Ministry of Communications has completed and opened the lab last December, to be transferred to the NAC later, to become a large centre for research and development.
The Investment Management Industry takes on AI and Big Data
In the words of many industry heavyweights, artificial intelligence (AI) is the “new electricity”. Researchers have made tremendous strides in building the ultimate “seeing, hearing, and understanding” machine in recent years. But, while many are referring to AI as the new electricity, others are calling big data the “new oil.” Big data is often referred …
Egypt, Saudi Arabia sign two MoUs on digital transformation and AI
The scope of cooperation between the two countries according to the terms of the MoU, which extends for three years, includes human capacity building, supporting innovation and entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital transformation.
Cairo ICT: Microsoft to showcase intelligent healthcare solutions through AI and cloud
Microsoft’s attendance at Cairo ICT 2019 will follow the theme of “Trust, Transform and Innovate – for the future of Egypt”, reflecting the company’s commitment to empower Egypt’s people, businesses and government to achieve more.
3 benefits of AI projects and how to measure them
Determining the benefits for artificial intelligence (AI) projects is difficult and confusing, but increasingly important
AI can be the key to improve government services
Governments must be able to separate the relevant from the insignificant and the public from the confidential to ensure effectiveness and excellent stewardship. Analytics is the key to unlocking the true AI value hidden in this ever-growing data.
Visa prevents approximately $25bn in fraud using AI
“One of the toughest challenges in payments is separating good transactions made by account holders from bad ones attempted by fraudsters without adding friction to the process,” said Melissa McSherry, senior vice president and global head of Data, Risk and Identity Products and Solutions, Visa
Thales plans to turn Egypt into regional technical hub to provide company’s services
Thales plans to increase investments in Egypt
AI creates new skills gap in cybersecurity: study
The cybersecurity skills shortage has long been a problem, according to recent report by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) which found that the gap in skills shortage is growing. The report found that IT groups have once again stated cybersecurity skills represent the biggest area they experience a problematic skills shortage in. The percentage of …
ITIDA, Valeo sign EGP 21m agreement to boost implementation of AI, digitisation in Egypt
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) signed an agreement with Valeo Egypt worth EGP 21m to be implemented over the coming three years, in order to foster innovation and research in digitisation and artificial intelligence (AI). The agreement was signed by Maha Rashad, the acting CEO of ITIDA, and Wael Abouelmaaty, Valeo Egypt’s general …
Trump signs executive order to prioritise, promote AI
One big motivator of new AI drive, China
Technology, AI, commercial applications will continue to grow in 2019
Trends to watch in AI market in 2019 include commercialisation of promising technologies, growth of new application markets, changes in hardware architectures, infrastructure to support AI deployments, and continuing evolution of business models, public policy issues
Official condemnations of new death sentences for Brotherhood leaders
The verdict should be reviewed only by judicial entities, says Egyptian lawyer
Egypt condemns comments on Morsi’s death sentence
Misr Al-Qawia, Turkish President Erdogan strongly condemned rulings, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern
Minya death sentences ‘a staggering violation of international human rights’: UN
Largest confirmed death sentence in Egypt’s history continues to draw international condemnation
HRW urges Egypt to ‘stop coercing’ refugees from Syria to leave
The human rights group cites UNHCR as saying that fewer than 10% of the detained refugees are ever released into the community