Innovation and Creativity for Development

Mobile IT Units

Increasing computer literacy countrywide

Providing free access to information and knowledge

IT Basics, Agriculture, Health, Women and Child, Internet Safety

6 Buses

20 governorates

150.000 beneficiaries

More than 10.000

training hours

ICT for Illiteracy Eradication

Mission:

To increase the literacy rates in urban, rural and remote areas, among women in particular, through the use of innovative ICT tools.

3 interactive CDs produced

MoU MCIT-GALAE

10.000 beneficiaries annually in 10 governorates

Community Development Portals

www.kenanaonline.com

• Support rural-urban integration into one knowledge society
• Empower communities through information, knowledge and specialized services

1'2 millions published pages in arabic

30.000 pages added per month

75.000 daily visits

ICT for Medium and Small Entreprises (M/SMEs)

Empowering young entrepreneurs and M/SMEs enterprises through the use of ICT to enhance the productivity and competitiveness of their enterprises.

Trained 9.000 M/SMEs

60.000 training hours

506 Certified Trainers of Trainers

1000 websites published on Ayadina portal

Main Activities

Siwa Oasis - Integrated ICT for Development Program

Empowering the Siwa community using ICT

ICT for people with disabilities

Improving the living conditions and social inclusion of the hearing and visually impaired people through improving their primary education and increasing their independency.

Literacy

Tabluter - Women´s literacy initiative

1728 training hours

Education

Health

Smart ICT 4Education

6 fully equipped schools

1100 beneficiaries students

Telemedicine initiative

250 professionals

trained

M/SMEs

e-shops

20 siwan S/MEs online

Erada Portal for Disabled

Telecentre Network

Empowering the local telecentres

2100 Telecentres

1 million users

8.000 jobs generated

Telecentre Academy

974 Registered trainers

589 Graduated trainees

Masr Works Youth Centers

• Enable Youth Centers as Business Centers to provide career development

• Set up IT centers to provide IT trainings for youth

• Promoting Youth civic engagement, human rights and democracy

• Set up of 10 Proto-type centers in 5 Governorates.
• ToT programs for 1200 members/staff of Youth Centers and CSOs: employability, entrepreneurship &IT.
• Train 19,000 youth.

Activities:

Egyptian Education initiative

Smart Schools

38 smart schools

43.300 students

3.400 teachers

775 administrators

Track 1: Pre-university

Equipped 2000 schools

Track 2: Higher Education

Equipped and provided training (18 Universities)

Track 3: Lifelong learning

Training for teachers on ICT skills and ICT for Education

Track 4: e-learning industry

E-learning initiative

60,000 beneficiaries

Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC)

ICT Trust Fund

Mission:

• Creating an environment that nurtures talented ICT entrepreneurs.
• Enhancing Egypt´s reputation as a global competitor in high value-added innovation.

• Establishment of Competence Centers in the field of Social Networking and Cloud Computing
• Building clusters at the national level.
• Setting up Businesses Incubator Programs.
• Organizing Egyptian Investment Fairs and ICT Events.
• Developing mechanisms through PPPs for investment in new skills development in the ICT sector.
• Allocate awards and prizes to encourage innovation: Ibtiekar and Business Plan competitions.
• Egypt Ideation Camp

Projects

Main activities

Innovation and Creativity

for Development

Enhancing IT skills, literacy, access to knowledge and information, inclusive development, competitiveness, innovation and employability

Skills Development (EDUEgypt - Education Development for Universities in Egypt)

13 Universities

45 Faculties

9600 Trainees

ITI Centers of Excellence :

• Biomedical Informatics COE

• Egyptian Cloud Computing Center – EC3

• E-Learning COE ELICA

• JAVA Education & Technology Services COE JETS

Professional Training (9-month Program)

53 Training Centers

101 Training Programs

2020 Trainers

1,000,000 Egyptian Youth

African Partnerships: Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Iraq – Show case: Using Blended Learning for ICT Training

International Academic Partnerships

ITI Community Debates (IC Debates)

Main areas of cooperation

• Promoting Innovation & Entrepreneurship through the Private Sector
• Employability Enhancement and Job Creation
• Empowering ITI’s International Cooperation

UNDP & Information Technology Institute (ITI)

Youth employment generation program

address the mismatch between private sector skills demands and youth skills sets by providing youth with the necessary training to increase their employment prospects.

Egypt ICT TRUST FUND

ICT for Youth

Youth Social innovation program

provides funding, mentorship and knowledge to alleviate poverty via social entrepreneurship

-200 projects submitted

Egypt ICT Trust Fund is aiming at sustaining, experimenting and enriching the use of ICT as a tool for Human Development in Egypt and act as a knowledge hub for the Arab and MENA region.

UNDP Egypt

Programmatic priorities:

1. Poverty Alleviation and Livelihoods

2. Democratic Governance & Human Rights

3. Local Development & Women’s Empowerment

4. Innovation & Creativity for Development

5. Climate Change

6. Biodiversity

UNDP ICT4D Program

Innovation and creativity for development

How do we work?

Overall Mission

Foster sustainable socio-economic development using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

2013 – 2018 ICT for Comprehensive Community Development

2013-2014 Masr Works Youth Centers

2013 - 2018 Enhancing Access to Knowledge for Development

2013-2018 South-South Cooperation 2013

2012-2017 Supporting Information Technology Institute (ITI) activities Ph II

2010 -2015 Support the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC)

2012 -2013 Youth Social Entrepreneurship Program in Egypt

2009 – 2013 MDGs Awareness Initiative in Cairo University

2008 Support to the NTRA project

2008 Establishment of Egypt Telecentre Academy

2008-2012 ICT to Foster (II) ICT 4 MSMEs

2007-2011 Supporting Information Technology Institute (ITI) activities Ph I

2007-2011 Supporting the NTRA´s participation in and collaboration with International Fora. (National Telecom Regulatory Authority)

2006- 2012 ICT Development for Micro/Small and Medium Enterprises

2006- 2012 Egyptian Education Initiative

2002-2007 Institutional Support and Strengthening Capacity of MCIT

Timeline

2002 – 2007 ICT To Foster Egypt’s Sustainable Human Development Program PH. I

1988 Technology Access Community Center

1985 Information and Decision Support Center

Supported the establishment of the MCIT, providing expertise and knowledge.

Assisted the MCIT with its 5-years plans and strategies

Smart Village

Technology park

Goal: to boost ICT domestic sector

• stimulating innovation and competitiveness
• providing an optimal environment for new business

Prizes and Recognitions

17 Awards in the last 4 years

Strategies and policies

Partners

Institutional Support & Strengthening Capacity of MCIT

Provide institutional

support for

developing

e-access

Support to

digital information

infrastructure

R&D CoEs

Achievements

Postal Reform

Create an enabling

environment

for IT business

development

E-Access Initiatives (Free Internet,

PC4Community, Broadband)

Support human resource

development for IT

NTRA

Smart Village

Project´s Goal: To assist MCIT in implementing its national plan, through:

• Recruiting and training the appropriate complement of staff
• Providing ongoing institutional support and capacity building
• Policy advice and analysis, including advice on legal reform.

ACHIEVEMENTS

ICDL

ITIDA

IT Clubs

Provide

technical support

to MCIT

Arabic e-Content

WSIS

ICT Training

Institutional

Project Components

ACHIEVEMENTS

projects

Support to the modernization of Egypt Post, "New Bosta" Ph. I

• National Infrastructure Capacity Building
• Telecom Reform Policies
• Postal Reform Policies
• Formulation of Nile University programs
• Incubation of MCIT R&D and Centers of Excellence -ITIDA
• E-business and e-signature law wre launched
• Arab strategy was set to strengthen the use of ICT industry in the region
• Supporting World Bank Study for “Assessment of the Information Center Capacity Building”
• Supporting UNCTAD Study “Review of Egypt ICT Strategy 2007-2010
• Launched Professional Training Programs which aimed to build a pool of skilled Egyptian ICT graduates.
• Facilitated the emergence of an IT Clubs network across Egypt.

Project Outputs:

• Establishment of a Regulatory body for universal postal service.
• Increased effectiveness of services at national and international levels.
• Efficient operation of Egypt Post, utilizing ICT technologies.

EP’s Technical and

Institutional

Capacity enhanced

Support to the Modernization of the Egyptian Post (Phase II)

EP service delivery

mechanisms modernized

EP equipped and

utilizing ICT technologies

to widen and improve

accessibility

Activities:

Support of E-Gov initiatives

Master Plan for the integration

of National Databases

Supporting the National Telecom

Regulatory Authority (NTRA)

• Recruitment, Developing management system and organizational structure& Develop and implement relevant information systems.
• Increase effectiveness of services to various customer groups & Develop Strategy Document.
• Pilot Study / Local Community Empowerment: Connecting Egyptian Handicraft Producers to the Global Market through an Online E-Commerce Web Portal

Enhance Efficiency and Accountability of the Public Sector in Egypt through ICTs

Outputs

Inter-agency collaboration and exchange of data are enhanced by integrating national databases through ICT.

• Support to the implementation of Telecom Africa 2008.
• Enhancing the international visibility of Egypt ICT sector.
• Mapping international regulatory experiences to support enhanced cohesion in regional telecommunications regulatory framework.

Outputs

• Municipalities’ service delivery upgraded through e-mechanism
• Created new channels for service delivery & citizen participation
• Mobile e-government services
• Re-engineering & automation of core business processes in governmental organizations
• Establishment of the Transparency and Integrity Committee

Empowering and Connecting the Community through ICT: Egypt-Emergence of the Regional Digital Hub

Increased efficiency, transparency and accountability of Public Sector’s Human Resources processes.

Government to citizen (G2C) services are enhanced and new channels for service provision established

• Universal access policies and strategies developed and upgraded.
• ICT applications supported
• Innovation enhanced
• Legal and regulatory enabling environment created
• Human resources Training and development supported
• Knowledge sharing and internal management support systems established

E-Government services are promoted and MSAD South South cooperation strategy enhanced.

Thanks!

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Sherif El Tokali

sherif.el.tokali@undp.org

sytokali

• Supported the establishment of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies (MCIT), providing expertise and knowledge.
• Assisted the MCIT with its 5-years plans and strategies

E-government

cooperation

Transformation and automation of post offices- Egypt New Bosta

NRTA