Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 38 | Page 28

LATEST REGIONAL PROJECT UPDATE EGYPT Two MoUs have been signed between the Information Technology Industry Development Agency, the Information Technology Institute and IBM Egypt, to stimulate entrepreneurship and develop the digital skills of Egyptian young people. Signing these two MoUs is part of the efforts aimed to strengthen the concept of strategic partnership between the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology and the private sector to develop skills of Egyptian young people on modern digital technologies. KSA STC group CEO Nasser Alnasser has declared that STC has taken significant steps to enable digitisation, Smart Cities, cloud, IOT, 5G services, and to play a leading role in the development of future telecommunication and ICT infrastructure. In a panel discussion during Future Investment Initiative (FII), Al-Nasser said: “We are very clear about our DARE strategy, encompasses all the facts on how STC will play its national champion role not only on the infrastructure side but in platforms and digitisation as well in alignment with 2030 vision.” 28 INTELLIGENTCIO www.intelligentcio.com