"The main drive of the e-Government initiative is to modernise the citizen's experience of public services and to improve the functionality of the Egyptian government..."
Egypt’s Information Society, Oct 2005
MCIT was instrumental in introducing e-government in Egypt and extending ICT into public services. As a general mandate, MCIT supports other ministries in facilitating e-Government programs and services as part of the Egyptian Information Society Initiative (EISI). One of the core objectives of the initiative is to modernize the way citizens interact with their government by introducing ICTs to the internal operations of government departments and to their interface with the public.
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| MCIT has been working with the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation and Ministry of Justice on the Agricultural Land Registry. The project will enable more efficient settling of ownership disputes and will protect both state and citizens’ rights. Also the Land Registry Office and the Egyptian Survey Authority (ESA) are creating simplified automated procedures and services for electronic transfer of ownership of agricultural lands. This project began in 2005 with the digitization of maps and the design of databases for maps and real estate documents, and the integration of both to constitute a database for geographical information.
Other aspects of the project involve setting the one-stop-shop principle for land transactions, establishing a web portal to provide e-services to the public, developing the agricultural land registration offices operations and implementing an information network connecting these offices in cooperation with the Cadastral Mapping Center of the Egyptian Survey Authority. |
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| Automation of Notarization Offices project, a joint collaboration between MCIT and Ministry of Justice, began with a pilot project in 2004 that automated four offices out of the 500 authentication offices affiliated with the Ministry of Justice and the establishments of the data center. The pilot successfully demonstrated that the reengineered work flow and automation of the authentication cycle improved processing time by 80%.
A total of 50 notarization offices have been automated and linked to the data center. The project’s work included establishing a decision support system and data mining center affiliated to the Ministry of Justice in addition to providing training to employees from the Real Estate Registry and Notarization Offices. The automation work of the rest of notarization offices allover Egypt is expected to take place in the project’s third phase. |
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| MCIT is cooperating with the Ministry of Justice to establish a centralized database of persons who are prohibited from undertaking real estate transactions for a variety of reasons.The project has established an Information Center and database in the Real Estate Publicity Department in the Ministry of Justice and is currently networked with 30 offices that can issue these prohibitions. The database is also integrated with Notarization Offices and the database of Corporeal Agricultural Land Registry. |
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| Economic activity in Egypt is benefiting from MCIT's efforts to provide
better interconnectivity and automation for the Chambers of Commerce
and their local branches nationwide. Aside from the infrastructure
(PCs – LAN- Internet connectivity) the project is automating the
workflow of the Chambers and introducing decision support systems to
the Federal Union for Chambers of Commerce. It also provides training
for employees in all chambers on how to use the new systems. |
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| The Egyptian Geography Network (EGN) is a national network of geographic information that aims to establish a National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) in a highly secured environment to offer citizens, technical users, investors and decision-makers access to geographic content of organizations through a web portal. |
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| In an attempt to modernize the Sheikh Zayed city council and improve its services, the project aims to establish an information center at the council that includes a fully equipped geographic information system (GIS) and to deploy software applications that will facilitate services delivery to the city’s investors and decision makers and other stakeholders. |
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| MCIT signed in August 2008 a cooperation agreement with General Organization for International Exhibitions and Fairs (GOIEF) to carry out the upgrade of the technological infrastructure of GOIEF. The project aims at raising the potential of fairs and exhibitions industry management in Egypt, developing the relationship between investors and the different governmental entities, enhancing the competitiveness of the industry following international standards, contributing to turning Egypt into a digital community, building up an information society to serve this industry and qualifying the organization's human resources. |
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| The project comes as part of a cooperation protocol signed in June 2008 with the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce that aims to provide comprehensive and up-to-date geographic data of the chamber's activities by posting traders data on maps and allowing analysis and spatial statistics to help decision makers. The project will also establish a geographic information unit at the Chamber and an integrated geographic database of all the chamber’s stakeholders on a map of Alexandria (1:2500). A geographic portal to access the chamber’s data will be developed. |
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| Infrastructure Development of the City of Luxor initiative comes after a cooperation protocol signed between Minister of CIT Tarek Kamel and Head of Supreme Council of Luxor Dr. Samir Farag to develop technological infrastructure projects in the city of Luxor. The step came in the context of a national project adopted by the political leadership to modernize Egypt.
The protocol aimed at improving the city’s public services, introducing the Egyptian cultural heritage to tourists, shedding light on various aspects of the city and optimizing coordination between the Supreme Council of Luxor and different ministries in this regards.
The protocol encompasses the implementation of and follow-up on a number of projects including the development of a portal to offer tourists functional and up-to-date information on the city; the development of IT infrastructure at the City’s Tourist Information Center, the Suzanne Mubarak Women Center, Mubarak Public Library, Heritage Center in addition to the automation of Luxor’s land registration offices and notarization offices. |
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| MCIT seeks to develop the infrastructure of the National Organization for Potable Water and Sanitary Drainage through a project that kicked off in 2008 and aims to link all the organization’s departments through an integrated institutional information system and establish a geographic information systems (GIS) unit for the organization. |
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| The project to upgrade the Ministry of Administrative Development’s Central Agency for Organization and Administration (CAOA) is part of the National Project for Developing Governmental Organizations.
The CAOA plans to conduct a comprehensive upgrade of all the regulatory and operational areas of the State administrative sectors.
Since 2005, MCIT has cooperated with the CAOA to upgrade the agency's technological infrastructure and develop an information system serving the CAOA restructure project.
MCIT established a system of servers, computers, printers, a local network connecting all agency departments,a center for data entry and verification, an Internet lab and other technical equipment.
The cooperation agreement also called for MCIT to maintain the information infrastructure as well as to build the regulatory and operational structure of the State administrative system. |
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| Child Emergency Hot Lines are being established, along with development of mobile information centers, the equipping of one classroom schools for girls, and support for illiteracy programs. In 2008, another mobile information center was established to help spread NCCM message allover Egypt and another hotline was created to receive the emergency calls of children with disabilities. Support for illiteracy programs and training in how to use ICT applications like multimedia in teaching has been conducted. Development of the information network at NCCM to support the Child Emergency Hot Line and other objectives of the council was completed. A portal for youth Youm Gedid has been has been developed and published. The information network at the council to support the Child Emergency Hot Line has been developed. |
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| Supporting automation and re-engineering processes for e-government, the Ministry of State for Administrative Development (MSAD) is now the lead implementation agency for the e-Government applications and is also responsible for the e-Government Portal. Externally, government services are being made available through the Internet and this development has been under the auspices of MSAD since mid 2005, and virtually all of the government’s services are now available online through the MSAD website. |
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| nother group of activities in support of the EISI initiative on automation and re-engineering processes for e-Government that MCIT is executing is to procure and install Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems in all ministries. The package that is currently being deployed includes payroll, accounting, budget, personnel, inventory and procurement systems, to be followed by document management and electronic archiving. |
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| The Ministry of Finance is aiming to automate 1,600 financial units nationwide by 2010, and connect major financial units with their affiliates. This project, which began in 2005, will increase efficiency and effectiveness through the provision of tools for calculating cash flows, and analyzing the speed of extracting the state’s final balance. |
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| Other government upgrade projects, that include the development of databases, include a project with the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) to provide a database of industrial establishments and products, for the Administrative Supervisory Authority to update its network and information system. |
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Economic databases and decision support services are transforming the operations of many key ministries and government enterprises. For example, the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MFTI) is cooperating with MCIT and the Egyptian Public Authority for Standardization and Quality Control. This will establish a database of standards specifications, with a backlog of data entries from Egyptian standards, drawing precedents, and quality control. Part of the project is to develop portals so that MFTI can offer its services online and manage specifications more efficiently.
MFTI also has an interest in the residue system of the National Export Supervisory Authority where an information network is being established to allow data flow between main data collection centers which will also compliment the Foreign Trade Data Warehouse project. In a similar way, the Ministry of Supply and Domestic Trade is developing a supply card automation system, using advanced Smart Card technologies. The project establishes a beneficiary database of approximately 50 million individuals, and a retailer database of approximately 40,000. Most of the projects mentioned above provide staff training on the correct use of the new technologies. |
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