Thursday 08/May/2025 – 05:58 PM
Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, reviewed the national efforts to achieve digital transformation, develop the communications and information technology industry, and support the digital innovation and entrepreneurship system in a session entitled Egypt’s digital: unleashing creativity and innovation in the Middle East and North Africa region.
This comes within the activities of the Sushi Tech Tokyo 2025 conference, which is one of the most prominent international activities concerned with startups and the largest of its kind in Asia, and is hosted by the Japanese capital, Tokyo, during the period from 8-10 May with the participation of more than 50 thousand participants from decision makers in the governmental, private sectors, experts, entrepreneurs and more than 500 emerging companies.
Emerging companies
Dr. Amr Talaat, during the session, explained the axes of the work of Egypt’s digital strategy that aims to build an integrated digital community, which is essentially based on the citizen with the aim of enabling him to obtain distinguished job opportunities in the digital economy, and facilitate his access to digital services, in addition to acquiring digital skills; Stressing that the efforts of the digital transformation in Egypt aim to provide integrated digital services and easy access to all groups of society, whether individuals or companies, explaining that the Egypt’s digital platform provides citizens with more than 180 digital government services from various sectors.
Dr. Amr Talaat pointed to the Ministry’s plans to qualify young people in the disciplines of information technology, which allows them to obtain distinguished job opportunities in the areas of outsourcing, digital transformation, and enhance their competitive capabilities in the global free labor market, explaining that the number of trainees has increased 125 times during 7 years to reach 500 thousand trainees during the current fiscal year; Adding that the digital capacity building strategy includes the establishment of applied technology schools in various governorates, as well as Egypt Information University, which is the first university specialized in communications and information technology in Africa.
Dr. Amr Talaat explained the efforts to support the system of digital innovation and entrepreneurship, by expanding the centers of digital creativity from 3 centers in 2016 to 27 centers by 2025; Adding that the Embot Center for Creativity and Development was established in the city of Knowledge in the new administrative capital as an innovation center specializing in supporting startups, small and medium in the areas of electronic design and integrated car systems.
Dr. Amr Talaat pointed to the efforts made to develop an advanced digital infrastructure, through investing in international digital infrastructure, extending optical fiber cables at the level of the Republic, establishing mobile towers, and working to launch the services of the fifth generation in addition to launching the cloud computing policy first; He pointed out that Egypt has a unique strategic location, with more than 90% of the data movement between East and West through 16 naval cables; Stressing that a number of projects are being implemented to develop digital infrastructure in the villages of a decent life project aimed at connecting optical fiber cables to 9.3 million buildings, developing 1700 mail offices, deploying 3700 mobile towers, in addition to enabling more than 500 thousand citizens with digital skills
