Arab FinancePresident Abdel Fattah El-Sisi met with Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and the team Ahmed Al-Shazly, Chairman of the Armed Forces Financial Affairs AuthorityEngineer Bakr Al-Bayoumi, Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and Major General A.H. Hani Mansour, Director of the Signal Department of the Armed Forces, where the President was briefed on developments in establishing data centers and launching computer clouds in Egypt.
This is within the framework of implementing the various axes of Egypt’s digital strategy, and to build on Egypt’s opening of giant data centers last April. In this context, the President followed the government’s efforts to provide an appropriate environment to encourage global investments, to benefit from the ongoing progress in the technological and information infrastructure in Egypt, and in light of The importance the state attaches to the communications and information technology sector.
The official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic, Ambassador Ahmed Fahmy, stated that President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi directed during the meeting to continue and intensify efforts to enhance the state’s capabilities in the field of increasing investments in data centers and computing clouds, in order to maximize the relative advantages that Egypt enjoys in this regard, both in terms of the availability of infrastructure. necessary that has been built over the past years, or in terms of Egypt’s geographical location, in which data and communications cables intersect between Africa, Asia and Europe, in addition to the passage of the vast majority of Internet signals in Asia and Europe through Egypt. His Excellency also stressed the continued intense interest in building The technical capabilities of Egyptian youth, and the preparation of digital cadres capable of competing effectively in the local and global labor market.
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