Presidential Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said in a statement that President Abdel Fattah El Sisi urged on Saturday, February 25, the need to provide all necessary assistance to Egyptian youth to create and develop their capacities, in addition to promoting entrepreneurship and encouraging the expansion of startups in the communications and information technology sector.
During a meeting with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli and Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat, El-Sisi directed to enhance the state’s efforts to promote digital transformation and to resume the automation of administrative and government procedures to help citizens and reduce time, effort, and cost while keeping up with the latest AI applications, whose importance and added value is steadily increasing at the global level.
Talaat briefed the President on efforts to qualify Egyptian human resources in information technology fields as part of the “Digital Egypt” strategy, which aims to maximize digital exports and attract more cadres, including freelancers, to the sector, by establishing a certified educational and training path in communication sciences and information technology.
