ICT measurement: Egypts Experience Dr. Nagwa El-Shenawy Information Center Director Ministry of communications and Information Technology Ministry of Communications.

ICT measurement: Egypt’s Experience

Dr. Nagwa El-ShenawyInformation Center Director

Ministry of communications and Information Technology

Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

Information Center

ICT Measurement in Egypt .. Core Target &Vision

Developing and improving the measurement of ICT use and impact in

Egypt, following international standards; so as to show the progress witnessed in

ICT sector.

Measuring ICT usage (demand)

Measuring ICT Affordability (supply)

Measuring ICT Impact

ICT Measurement in Egypt .. Life cycle

Building a database for ICT indicators to measure, analyze and

monitor ICT sector in Egypt.

Providing decision makers with up-to-date and accurate ICT

indicators.

Providing international organizations with required data and

indicators which reflect the positioning and the performance of

ICT sector in Egypt.

Disseminating the ICT indicators to the public and policy makers.

ICT Measurement in Egypt .. Goals

Measuring the Information Society in Egypt

The project has a wide scope, measuring ICT usage in the

following areas:

■ICT usage by IT Club, Internet Coffee and ISP Company.

■ICT usage by households and individuals.

■ICT usage by businesses. (Note about questionnaire)

■ICT usage in government sector.

■ICT usage in Education sector.

■ICT usage in Health sector.

■Mobile data services .

This questionnaire has been formulated in light of

international ICT core indicators recommended by

partnership on measuring ICT for development project

adopted by many international organizations.

The questionnaire mainly includes 7 sections:

Private businesses basic indicators.

ICT usage by businesses (Fixed lines, Mobile, Internet,

Computer).

Human resources (employees and training).

E-commerce & E-government.

Security and Privacy.

ICT expenditure.

R & D activities.

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

1-Questionnaire

Frame: has been acquired from the census of enterprises for the year

2006.

Sample Design: proportion stratified sample with out replacement .

Target Population: According to international organizations

recommendations and international comparison requirements, the

firms are belonging to ISC.4 and in the same time their # of employees

is at least 10.

Stratification variables. Economic activity, Geographical Location and

class of # of employees.

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

2-Sample Design

Our framework can be formulated as:

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

2-Sample Design

(cont)

BUSSINESS SIZE

Sector ISC

GOVERNATE

D ManufacturingF Construction45G Whole Sale & Retail Trade51 - 52

URBAN-10121874449-5036459102-250972014

-500108259total1787178574

LOWER EGYPT-10133618250

-50391921

-2507851

-50010183

total190640275

BORDER-10918-50242-250210

-500010

total13710

UPPER EGYPT-10101034232

-503682144-2506651-50097151

total154175278

total52473001137

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

2-Sample Design

(cont)

Finally the sample size is distributed across the sectors based on the

contribution to the GDP and collected face 2 face & entered by CAPMAS.

Moreover we conducted in the same time another survey concerned with

the firms less than 9 employees because they employ a large portion of the

employees in our country.

consequently we assign only 20% of the sample Micro enterprises and the

remaining for the others.

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

2-Sample Design

(cont)

3. Imputing the missing values if it exists.

4. Cleaning the data (consider the logical

considerations).

5. Validate the data results ( hard indicators, trend

pattern).

6. Computing the expansion factor.

Cont.ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

1. Measuring Digital Divide by geographic location (2010)

Cont.ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

Achieved Progress

66.59

36.4

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

Proportion of enterprisesusing computers

Proportion of enterprisesusing internet

%

71.03

39.3635.70

15.87

0.00

10.00

20.00

30.00

40.00

50.00

60.00

70.00

80.00

Proportion of enterprisesusing computers

Proportion of enterprisesusing internet

Urban

Rural

i. By geographic location

ii. By gend

er

Cont.ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

Achieved Progress1. Measuring Digital Divide by gender

(2009)

2. Measuring broadband (2010)

Cont.

High speed intern

et

Multiple answers were allowed

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

Achieved Progress

19.18%

89.69%

14.85%

0.00% 20.00% 40.00% 60.00% 80.00% 100.00%

Narrowband

Fixed Broadband

Mobile Broadband

3. Measuring ICT spending (2010)

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

Achieved Progress

ICT Expenditure by type

34.00%

23.60%

8.90%

0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30 0.35 0.40

H/W

S/W

NETWORKS

4. Measuring Security % of Net users

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

Achieved Progress

Types of security problems  

Hackers 96.80%

Types of security solutions  

Anti virus 89.80%

5. Measuring E-Commerce indicators 2010

ICT Usage .. ICT Usage by Private Businesses

Achieved Progress

E-commerce activities  

Percentage of E-sales to total sales 21.30%

Percentage of E- purchases to total purchases 23.80%

Type of E-commerce activities  

B2B 80.40%

B2C 34.50%

B2G 11.20%

Benefiting of E-commerce  Reducing transaction costs 36.00%

Increasing transactions speed 86.00%

Reaching new customers 55.00%

% of enterprises involved in E-Commerce activities

• Refreshing (updating) the framework annually.

• Representing some indicators in more high frequency instead of low

frequency .

• The enterprises which can not be easily classified as private or

public sector .

• The journey is still long; but we are sure that we are on the right

track, believing that sincere cooperation with international

organizations and hard work will lead us to achieve our goals.

Challenges Issues

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