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- ICT Education and Capacity building Implemented Initiatives - Initiatives empowering women to establish new projects using ICT - Initiatives for ICT for Health ICT Education and Capacity building Implemented Initiatives
1-ICT for Illiteracy
ICT for Illiteracy program provides a digital content that is concerned with teaching the Arabic letters, words and the principles of mathematics as per the curriculum that was prepared by the General Authority for Literacy and Adult Education (GALAE). The program presents as well a series of courses and self-study curriculums. In that context, MCIT has provided training programs for the trainers in 15 governorates to meet the growing demand for basic training in literacy. Most of the training programs are held in IT clubs, however the CD-ROMs are available on request for free of charge. In light of this project, 5500 trainees became literate of which 75% represented females. This project has the advantage of achieving the targeted results faster than the traditional training courses (five months instead of 10 months).
For more information, please visit the following URLs: http://ie.ictfund.org.eg/ http://www.mcit.gov.eg/ar/ict_Learning.aspx#2 http://awww.net/edu_subjects.html 2-International Computer Driving License (ICDL) Program
This program aims at providing training courses that qualifies the trainee for getting the ICDL through 300 accredited centers all over Egypt. The number of students who were able to get the license has reached about 270 thousand trainees up till now of which 50% are females.
For more information, please visit the following URL: http://www.mcit.gov.eg/ar/Basic_Training.aspx 3-IT Clubs Initiatives
The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology has adopted the IT Clubs initiative since 2000 seeking to provide the use of communications and information technology to more segments of Egyptian society in urban, rural and remote areas. The idea behind IT clubs is to provide an opportunity for all members of the community to develop their skills, knowledge and expertise with the assistance of modern technology.
The IT clubs initiative is considered a result of the fruitful cooperation between all sectors of society and despite that the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology is the main contributor to the project, it was however keen to involve the public and private sectors in it, as well as the individuals and communities, to ensure the success of the project based on its full confidence and belief that the community participation is the sole guarantee for sustainability.
The project is implemented through the Ministry's provision - in collaboration with the private sector - of the computer labs within the schools, clubs, universities and youth centers, as well as providing desktops, printers, networks and internet connection and above all professional trained teachers.
In this endeavor, the ministry has given priority to the areas that have populations lying within the category of low-income level. Generally speaking, participants can have access to laboratories and services offered by the clubs at any time and at a minimal rent. This is in addition to the participants' capability to get enrolled in several courses offered by these clubs to help participants make the best use of technology in their lives.
With the launch of nearly 300 clubs each year, the ministry seeks to reach every district across the country. This expansion does not include only an increasing number of clubs, but also extends to the activities provided and the groups benefiting from it. In this context, the Ministry is concerned currently with tailoring activities targeting handicapped and children who had dropped out of education. The average number of daily working hours of the IT clubs reaches about 10 hours a day throughout the week. The IT clubs organizes many training courses covering different areas throughout the day allowing women to participate during the most appropriate time to them.
The annual growth of the IT clubs in 2009 reached 10% such that the total number of IT clubs reached 2000 by the end of 2009.
It is noteworthy that the IT clubs have helped about 72% of the female clients in the urban areas and about 66% in the rural areas to acquire advanced skills in the use of computers and the Internet, and helped as well about 37% of female clients in urban areas and 36.7% in rural areas to obtain the ICDL Computer Driving, and about 19.3% of female clients in urban areas and about 20.9% of female clients in rural areas to have a better access to the job opportunities.
For more information, please visit the following URL: http://www.mcit.gov.eg/ar/ICT_Access.aspx#ITClubs 4-Specialized and Professional training
The National Telecommunication Institute (NTI) and the Information Technology Institute (ITI) provide training programs to support young graduates' skills qualifying them for the labor market. This is done through providing the necessary training to those young people in light of the needs of the labor market.
It is worth mentioning that the females represent the highest proportion of the beneficiaries of training programs offered by the institutes such that the proportion of female trainees in the training programs offered by the ITI accounts for about 60% of the total trainees, while the proportion of trainees in training programs for the NTI to about 42%.
For more information, please visit the following URL: http://www.ntiegypt.sci.eg:85/nti/ http://www.iti.gov.eg/eduegypt/edu_egypt.html
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Initiatives empowering women to establish new projects using ICT
1. ICT for SMEs
The project started in 2006 through the collaboration between the Egyptian Fund for Information and Communication Technology, Canadian Centre for Developmental Research and Microsoft Egypt to implement ICT for SMEs. The program aims at achieving the optimal use of ICT for developing small and medium enterprises and to raise their competitiveness by providing technical support to the owners of these projects in partnership with the NGOs in 19 governorates.
"Ayadina" is the electronic gateway to ICTs for SMEs, a specialized portal related to the community development portal (Kenana Online). The portal offers many services to SMEs Business owners.
It is noteworthy that the project has contributed significantly to the development of the capacity of many women to establish new successful projects in a large number of Egyptian governorates.
For more information, please visit the following URL: http://ayadina.kenanaonline.com/ 2. E-Marketing Portal (CLEOSTORE)
The National Council for Women in conjunction with the National Postal Authority created an E-Marketing portal (ClioStore). The portal is designed to help women owning small and micro businesses to display and market their products "locally and internationally".
The initiative succeeded in creating a database of nearly 500 women entrepreneurs. While the number of women who received advice in the area of small projects reached about 1600, in addition, about 3000 women have received training in various areas including computer skills and effective skills for the sales on the Internet since 2003.
For more information please visit the URL below: http://www.cleostore.com/ 3. "Afkar Gadida" for supporting women in starting up SMEs
The National Council in partnership with the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology created a website for the small projects named "Afkar Gadida" or "New ideas" to assist women in obtaining all the information they need about running small businesses and encourage them to establish new projects.
For more information please visit the URL below: http://www.afkargadida.com/
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Initiatives for ICT for Health
1-National project of "Women's Mobile Health Units"
Egypt’s First Lady Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak inaugurated the national project of "Women's Mobile Health Units" in Cairo in 2007 as part of a joint collaboration between the Ministry of Health and Population and MCIT.
The project aims at promoting the early detection of breast cancer through a mobile health unit equipped with advanced medical equipments, fixed units in addition to a main center in Kasr Al-Aini hospital and another center in Fum El Khalij
Through availing this online diagnosis, the "Women's Mobile Health Unit" project extends their services all over Egypt contributing to time saving, as well as minimizing the expenses and efforts exerted in transmitting the patients to the specialized medical centers for either the check up or the follow up.
For more information please visit the URL below: http://www.mcit.gov.eg/ict_health.aspx#6 2-Suzanne Mubarak Center for Women's Health
This project, implemented from year 2006 to year 2008, sought to improve health care delivery for women in Alexandria by establishing a center that is characterized by modern healthcare facilities and administration systems at the Suzanne Mubarak Center for Women’s Health.
The center provides professional and specialized services in women's healthcare as well as specialized consultations through the telemedicine facilities. The center created a digital health file for every patient containing personal information, disease history, prescribed medicines and number of visits with the records linked to the person's national ID number.
A digital library for research was also established at the center, enabling hosting of national and international conferences. The projects’ scope also includes entering into a cooperation agreement with US research university UC Davis for remote medical consultations.
For more information please visit the URL below: http://www.mcit.gov.eg/ict_health.aspx#6
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