1. Investigation of the Potential of Big Data in EGYPT
Raymon Nabih Andrawes
Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics
CAPMAS - EGYPT
Addis Abbaba – 24th March 2018

2. Contents Preface Big Data Projects and expected outputs
CAPMAS interest in participations with Big Data activities
Big Data Projects and expected outputs
Recommendations 1

3. Preface
Big data became a new reality as a result of technological developments that provided a type of data that was not available in the past.
“Big data" is quintessentially ordinary data, but is characterized by being "big" in volume 2

4. Preface (Cont’d)
To benefit from big data requires first determining the purpose of processing such data. Second, it requires development of processing itself compared to the processing of traditional data. Therefore, a new science has been introduced—still in the development stage—namely, "data science" 3

5. Preface (Cont’d)
Digital development and the presence of modern electronic services and platforms have contributed to changing consumer expectations and
demands in their various transactions. 4

6. CAPMAS interest in participations with Big Data activities
CAPMAS is member of UN Global working group (GWG) on Big Data for Official Statistics
Filling Questionnaires related to the big data utilization in statistical activities such as big data quest. For Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) 5

7. CAPMAS interest in participations with Big Data activities(Cont’d)
Continuous communication with national,regional and international organizations.
Participating in official events related to accessibility to relevant sources of big and geospatial data for SDGs indicators reporting. 6

8. Big Data Projects and expected outputs
Partner
Current Status
Expected Outputs 1
Compiling data prices for CPI creation
Hyper Markets
Implementing Phase (Not Financed) / (Pilot)
Increasing degree of quality of CPI and Reducing overhead for respondents and errors 2
Using Satellite Imaging in measurement of crop production
Ministry of Agriculture and land Reclamation
Approved (Not Financed)
Management of water
irrigation and rationalization 7

9. Big Data Projects and expected outputs
Partner
Current Status
Expected Outputs 3
Tracking of spreading patterns of Epidemic diseases
Ministry of Health & Mobile phone Service Providers
Approved (Not Financed) ) / (Pilot)
Knowledge of the ways to improve health care services 4
Transport Statistics
Trrafic Agency & Mobile phone Service Providers
Approved (Not Financed) ) / (Exploitation)
Measurement and analysis of traffic density on High ways. 8

10. Recommendations
“Big data" need to be integrated into official data published by the State. Therefore, there should be cooperation between the entities that have this type of data and the State agencies, especially the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics.
Big data can be used to create macro indicators to be used by the State to identify development objectives and prioritize targeting of different regions or segments. It can be integrated into the database consolidation project. 9

11. Recommendations (Cont’d)
The privacy of customer data is fundamental to the issue of Big Data. The Egyptian Constitution and the Telecommunications Law safeguard the privacy and confidentiality of data. The shared data is, therefore, data collected about market trends, rather than people.
The Big Data framework needs legislative amendments to the mechanisms of sharing aggregate data, such as the creation of data centers and platforms. 10