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How Egypt plans to boost tech partnerships with US companies

A delegation from Egypt's Communications and Information Technology Ministry has returned from a successful US tour to promote cooperation and investment in information technology.
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Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yasser El Kady paid an official visit to the United States this month, heading a high-level delegation for talks on Egypt-US cooperation in information and communications technology as well as promoting investments in these industries. From March 13-23, the Egyptian delegation held several meetings with senior officials at multinational companies such as Dell, Teleperformance, Cisco, Oracle, Honeywell and MasterCard in addition to touring Silicon Valley, the hub of US technology.

Egypt is focusing on digital transformation and setting up technology zones across the country. According to the ministry's statement, the trip came as part of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's directives to create a globally competitive electronics industry in Egypt through establishing a training program that is to initially include 16,000 trainees. In May 2016, Kady paid a visit to China on a mission to build strategic partnerships in technical domains.

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