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EGYPT
Egypt’s Ministry of Communication and Information
Technology and the Egyptian Space Agency, have signed
a co-operation protocol to equip a computer centre and
integrated information system for the space agency. The
signing was witnessed by Minister of Higher Education and
Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghaffar and Minister of
Communication and Information Technology Amr
Talaat via videoconferencing.
KSA
Saudi Arabia has climbed 40 places in the Digital
Infrastructure Index 2020 to rank 27, putting it in eighth
spot in the G20. The Kingdom has moved up 15 places in the
Human Capital Index to rank 35 globally and ranked tenth
place in the G20. The country has also risen nine places in the
E-Government Development Index to achieve the highest
classification for the index, which includes 139 countries.
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