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Skilled Talent Pool

Egypt has a large base of highly talented, qualified and easily available human resource in the field of Information Technology. Adding to this, Egypt has large English speaking population.

The Egyptian Education Initiative (EEI) is another critical component of the government’s efforts to integrate IT into the education sector and create a cadre of highly trained IT professionals. Launched at the World Economic Forum in 2006, the initiative is designed to improve the content and delivery of the education offered in Egyptian schools and universities so as to better prepare students to enter the digitalworkforce. The EEI provides infrastructure (hardware and connectivity), develops e-learning methodologies and content, trains teachers and students, and revises curricula to match student skills to markets. The initiative is designed around four tracks: pre-university education, higher education, lifelong learning and e-industry development.

MCIT established the Software Engineering Competence Center (SECC) in 2001 to promote and support the development of the software industry. In 2005, SECC became affiliated with ITIDA. Since its launch Model Integration (CMMI) level. SECC’s Software Process Improvement for SMEs program supports 70 companies through a four-round program. In addition, the center has expanded its staff to include three Software Engineering Institute (SEI) lead appraisers, Two SEI authorized CMMI instructors, and two SEI Personal Software Process (PSP)/Team Software Process (TSP) authorized instructors and coaches. In 2008, SECC signed a cooperation agreement with the European Software Institute (ESI) to establish an ESI center in Egypt and offer Egyptian expertise primarily in the fields of information security, integrated software development, International quality criteria and IT services.

In 2006, MCIT inaugurated Nile University, a new private, not-for-profit research university that aspires to be the leading university in technology and business education in Egypt and the MENA region. Operating from temporary premises in the Smart Village, the university will soon move to a 127-acre campus in Sheikh Zayed City on the outskirts of Cairo. In 2008, the university launched graduate programs in:

Intelligent transportation systems in cooperation with the University of Central Florida, Construction engineering and management, Information security, Microelectronics system design in collaboration with Northwestern University, Communications and information technology with tracks in software engineering (in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University), wireless technologies (in collaboration with Ohio State University) and information security.

These programs build on the success of the already existing programs in management of technology (in collaboration with the University of Minnesota, University of Miami and the International Association for Management of Technology) and microelectronics system design. Nile University also offers an executive development program in collaboration with IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona, Spain. Also in 2008, Nile University signed cooperation agreements with the Imperial College of London to offer new programs in research and teaching of informatics sciences; the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden to collaborate in areas related to computing and communications; and Egypt’s National Cancer Institute to use informatics sciences in diagnostic processes and DNA research. The university has set a goal of offering 27 different graduate degrees and other educational programs within the next 10 years.