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ICT Indicators

Capacity Building Workshop on Information Society Measurements AMMAN- Jordan, 10-12 December 2006. ICT Indicators . Egypt Profile . Presented by : . Eng. Hesham Baraka Director of Information Center (NTRA). Dr. Nagwa Elshnawy

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ICT Indicators

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  1. Capacity Building Workshop on Information Society Measurements AMMAN- Jordan, 10-12 December 2006 ICT Indicators Egypt Profile Presented by : Eng. Hesham Baraka Director of Information Center (NTRA) Dr. Nagwa Elshnawy Director of Strategic Planning ( ITIDA )

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

  3. 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% 15-64 years: 62.9% 65 years and over: 4.5%

  4. Background On MCIT Licensing international Gateway Licensing for TE Broadband Initiative Delaying privatization of TE Attempt to Privatize TE Commitment to BTA Financial Restructure of TE & issuing bonds of 2 Billion EGP Licensing of 3rd 2G/3G Mobile Network Separation between regulator & operator Public – Private Partnership Announcing CIT National Plan Establishing NTRA & Telecom Law 10/2003 Adopting a National CIT Plan Free Internet Initiative Floating 20% in CASE and LSE for EGP 5.125 billion Commitment to Liberalize IT Products under WTO Announcing Plan for IT Exports Liberalizing Mobile Market Establishing the Ministry of Telecommunications & IT Discussing draft of Telecom Law Establishing ITIDA & E-Signature Law

  5. ICT INDICATORS PROJECT 2005-2007

  6. 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.

  7. 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. Mandate Egypt ICT Indicators Project The Information Technology Industry Development Agency Governmental entity that has been established through Law 15 of the year 2004. 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 Partners MCIT 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. ITIDA 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 CAPMAS

  8. 1 Egypt ICT IndicatorsPhase One (2005) A. Defining ICT Indicators : • 224 ICT Indicator definitions from ITU & World Bank B. Forms Design Scope : Households Enterprises Public Sector Governmental sector 71000 Participants 25000 Entities 1500 Entities 4000 Entities

  9. 1 Egypt ICT IndicatorsPhase One (2005) C. Data Gathering By : • CAPMAS • Call Center • MCIT Information Center • MCITTelecommunication Policies Department

  10. 1 Egypt ICT IndicatorsPhase One (2005) Example of Forms

  11. 1 Egypt ICT IndicatorsPhase One (2005) Mobile Forms

  12. 2 Egypt ICT IndicatorsPhase Two (2006) A. Revising Forms • IT Companies (ITIDA played a role based on feedback from companies + UNCTAD Indicators) • Household (eliminating unnecessary questions) B. Adding new Sector based Indicators • ICT in Education (Quality of Education Indicators) • IT Companies C. Sample Size Increase • House Hold: 181000 Participants ( 1% of Egypt households) • Enterprises: 47000 Entities • Increase of Call Centers Role

  13. 2 Egypt ICT Indicators Portal Phase Two (2006) D. Portal Under Construction, Launch by March 2007 For more information about ICT Indicators please visit http://www.mcit.gov.eg/Indicators

  14. 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.

  15. Egypt ICT Indicators INTERNET COMMUNICATION

  16. Egypt ICT Indicators POST TRAINING

  17. Egypt ICT Indicators PC for Community Internet hourly access share

  18. Egypt ICT Indicators Internet minute ADSL Users

  19. Egypt ICT Indicators International calls users IT CLUPS

  20. Thank you

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