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ICT Education and Capacity building Implemented Initiatives |
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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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