ICT Indicators Egypt Profile Eng. Hesham Baraka Director of Information Center (NTRA) Dr. Nagwa Elshnawy Director of Strategic Planning ( ITIDA ) Presented by : Capacity Building Workshop on Information Society Measurements AMMAN- Jordan, December 2006 Capacity Building Workshop on Information Society Measurements AMMAN- Jordan, December 2006

Outline About Egypt Background On MCIT Objectives Partners Egypt ICT Indicators (Phase ONE) Egypt ICT Indicators (Phase TWO) Lessons Learned

About Egypt Geography A regional hub Linking the Mediterranean, Europe, Asia and the Arab World. From North-to-South A gateway to Africa. Country Area Total: 1,001,450 sq km Land: 995,450 sq km Water: 6,000 sq km Population 78 million people 0-14 years: 32.6% years: 62.9% 65 years and over: 4.5%

Background On MCIT Free Internet Initiative Liberalizing Mobile Market Separation between regulator & operator Attempt to Privatize TE Establishing the Ministry of Telecommunications & IT Announcing CIT National Plan Adopting a National CIT Plan Delaying privatization of TE Public – Private Partnership Discussing draft of Telecom Law Commitment to BTA Establishing NTRA & Telecom Law 10/2003 Commitment to Liberalize IT Products under WTO Broadband Initiative Financial Restructure of TE & issuing bonds of 2 Billion EGP Licensing for TE Floating 20% in CASE and LSE for EGP billion Licensing international Gateway Announcing Plan for IT Exports Licensing of 3 rd 2G/3G Mobile Network Establishing ITIDA & E-Signature Law

ICT INDICATORS PROJECT

Objectives Establish information society indicators. Capacity building to facilitate measuring ICT indicators Comparing Rural-Urban areas in Egypt Comparing with other countries for benchmarking. Availing the updated Egypt’s ICT indicators to national and international users.

The Information Technology Industry Development Agency Governmental entity that has been established through Law 15 of the year This agency aims at paving the way for the diffusion of the e-business services in Egypt capitalizing on different mandates of the authority as activating the Egyptian e- signature law and supporting an export-oriented IT sector in Egypt Ministry of Communication & Information Technology Plays a role in national policy making where it is the key driver for the deregulation of the telecommunication industry and for the implementation of Egypt's Information Society. The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority National authority to administer the telecommunication sector, considering transparency, open competition, universal services and protection of user rights as a general outline for NTRA scope of work. Central Agency for Public Mobilization And Statistics The official source for provision of data, statistics, and reports to assist all the state agencies and authorities, universities, research centers and international organizations in planning, developing, assessing and making policies and decisions Partners MCIT ITIDA CAPMAS Mandate Egypt ICT Indicators Project

Egypt ICT Indicators Phase One (2005) B. Forms Design Scope :  224 ICT Indicator definitions from ITU & World Bank A. Defining ICT Indicators : Governmental sectorPublic SectorEnterprises Households 1500 Entities 4000 Entities Entities Participants 1

Egypt ICT Indicators Phase One (2005)  CAPMAS  Call Center  MCIT Information Center  MCIT Telecommunication Policies Department C. Data Gathering By : 1

Example of Forms Egypt ICT Indicators Phase One (2005) 1

Mobile Forms Egypt ICT Indicators Phase One (2005) 1

 House Hold: Participants ( 1% of Egypt households)  Enterprises: Entities  Increase of Call Centers Role  IT Companies (ITIDA played a role based on feedback from companies + UNCTAD Indicators)  Household (eliminating unnecessary questions) A. Revising Forms B. Adding new Sector based Indicators  ICT in Education (Quality of Education Indicators)  IT Companies C. Sample Size Increase Egypt ICT Indicators Phase Two (2006) 2

Under Construction, Launch by March 2007 For more information about ICT Indicators please visit D. Portal Egypt ICT Indicators Portal Phase Two (2006) 2

Lessons Learned Ensuring the mapping of fields in forms with International Indicators Increasing cross checking samples based on different data collection mechanism (Call Centers output vs. Field surveying) Developing data verification techniques to eliminate inconsistencies to ensure data integrity Identifying the need of a centralized platform (Portal) to share, update & publish ICT Indicators among data owners and then to beneficiaries locally & internationally.

Egypt ICT Indicators INTERNET COMMUNICATION

POST TRAINING Egypt ICT Indicators

PC for Community Internet hourly access share Egypt ICT Indicators

Internet minute ADSL Users Egypt ICT Indicators

IT CLUPS International calls users Egypt ICT Indicators

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