(MENAFN- Daily News Egypt) The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) has made efforts in the development of the Egyptian IT industry during 2017. In this report, Daily News Egypt reviews the most prominent of these efforts.
In 2017, ITIDA launched its Time for Egypt campaign, which consolidated Egypt€™s position on the global IT services map.
This helped rank Egypt as one of nine main global sites, for the second time in a row, in the field of ICT services exported to the Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, according to a report by Gartner Research company.
In addition, A.T. Kearney tagged Egypt as the world€™s best service provider in the Middle East and Africa.
In the field of entrepreneurship support, the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) announced increasing the in-kind support offered to incubators from EGP 120,000 to EGP 180,000.
TIEC also implemented innovation cluster initiatives and signed a contract with €œEtisal€ alliance to run the cluster in Borg El Arab, Alexandria. It also inaugurated the cluster in coordination with technological parks in New Assiut, under the name €œWe Innovate€.
With regard to technological incubators, TIEC also opened the door for registration for three rounds of the business planning workshop StartIT, which resulted in supporting 31 projects at the Smart Village and Assiut incubation centre.
This year saw ten new companies graduate from Smart Village and Assiut incubation centres. Moreover, TIEC hosted 37 projects at the co-working spaces.
With regard to supporting cooperation between ICT companies and the Information Technology Academia Collaboration (ITAC), nine research projects obtained funding worth EGP 5.7m.
ITIDA is currently working on the deployment of electronic signature services and has taken a number of steps in this regard.
Dealing with e-signatures has become among the conditions to register and benefit from a number of services and development programmes available from ITIDA.
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