ICT Indicators

ICT Indicators Egypt ProfileEgypt 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 MeasurementsAMMAN- Jordan, 10-12 December 2006

Outline

•About Egypt

•Background On MCIT

•Objectives

•Partners

•Egypt ICT Indicators (Phase ONE)

•Egypt ICT Indicators (Phase TWO)

•Lessons Learned

About Egypt

GeographyA regional hub Linking the Mediterranean, Europe, Asia and the Arab World.From North-to-SouthA gateway to Africa.

Country Area Total: 1,001,450 sq km Land: 995,450 sq km Water: 6,000 sq km

Population 78 million people0-14 years: 32.6%15-64 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 5.125

billion

Licensing international

Gateway

Announcing Plan for IT

Exports

Licensing of 3rd 2G/3G

Mobile Network

Establishing ITIDA & E-Signature Law

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ICT INDICATORS PROJECTICT INDICATORS PROJECT

2005-20072005-2007

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 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

Ministry of Communication & Information TechnologyPlays 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 SectorEnterprisesHouseholds

1500 Entities4000 Entities25000 Entities71000 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: 181000 Participants ( 1% of Egypt households) Enterprises: 47000 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 http://www.mcit.gov.eg/Indicators

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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