GLOBAL MEETING ON GOVERNMENT INTEROPERABILITY
FRAMEWORKS 2010
4-6 MAY 2010
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
Egyptian Information Society Initiative
E- Government
E-Health
E-Justice
E-Content
……..
ICT For Government
Infrastructure
Laws & Regulations
E-Readiness
ICT Industry
Development
E-learning
ICT For Government
ICT For Government
• Provide the necessary technical support to the
Government of Egypt on issues pertaining to ICT and
find cost effective solutions to support GoE national
projects
• Liaise on behalf of the GoE to avail common
applications and systems software
ICT For Government
Towards A Paperless & A Cashless Society
Infrastructure
Legislative
Regulatory
E_Business
Social
Environment
Environment
Application
Awareness
ICT For Government
• Issuing the necessary legislation to regulate electronic
transactions & signatures and spread their use
• Establishing an infrastructure for E-Signature by using smart cards
technology in the banking sector
• Building a Credit Bureau to promote the use of credit cards
• Using electronic payments in the services area including internet
banking and mobile banking
• Connecting the networks of electronic transactions locally and
facilitating its connection to regional and international networks
to spread the usage of Points of Sale
InfraStructure
E-Readiness
A Public – Private Partnership in which the government articulates policy
and regulatory frameworks for the private sector and civil society to
implement for the benefit of the Egyptian citizen
E-Readiness
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The Free Internet Initiative
– Enabling Internet access on all fixed phone lines without any monthly fees and at
The same cost as a local call since Jan 2002
• PC for Every Home & Notebook for Every Specialist Initiatives
– An easy way for the Egyptian family to obtain a PC on monthly installments and no
advance payments Using the phone line as a collateral Highly efficient PCs manufactured
or assembled locally
• IT Clubs Initiative
– Making Technology tools available in low income areas in Egypt
– 1940 clubs were built in 26 governorates
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Chosen places : Youth centers, Cultural centers NGOs, Schools &Colleges
• Broadband Initiative
– Reducing price by more than 50% to reach 150 LE per month
– Facilitating the installation & activation procedures
ICT Industry
Development
• Signing cooperation agreements with Multinational companies for
Knowledge Transfer:
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Oracle
IBM
Microsoft
Esri
Cisco
SAP
• Encouraging Domestic demand Development
• CMMI Program
E-Learning
Professional Training Programs
Developing highly qualified experts in state-of-art technologies through
Internationally certified programs in cooperation with international
companies to support the Egyptian industry
– Pc & Internet usage
– Int’l Computer Driving License ICDL
– Super User
E-Learning
Pre-University Education
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Executed in collaboration with the Ministry of Education
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Eliminating computer & Internet illiteracy among preparatory school graduates
within 5 years and qualifying them for the ICDL
•
Smart Schools: A pilot project for preparatory schools implemented in 13
governorates
– 2000 thousand schools were connected to the Free Internet service
– All preparatory schools will be connected to the Internet via broadband
facilities within a year
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Connecting schools to the Internet
E-Learning
• Raising the competitiveness of the Egyptian labor force for serving local
& international markets
• Spreading knowledge by using new interactive models through the
Internet
• Supporting the efforts of the ministries of Education and HigherEducation in integrating IT in the education system
E- Health initiative in Egypt
E- Health initiative in Egypt
Egyptian health initiative composed of six tracks:
 Primary Health Care.
 Tele-medicine Initiative.
 Health Records System Initiative.
 Medical Emergency System.
 GIS system for master planning .
 Medical staff capacity building.
Health Challenges in developing countries
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Limited financial and knowledge resources.
Increasing cost of health services.
Disproportion distribution: Social, Demographical, …etc.
Centralization of Health services.
Healthcare business processes are highly varied and change
fast
• Concentration of Medical Consultants in small number of
Medical Centers.
• Isolation of Rural Area Medical Staff, Isolation of Remote
Hospital and Reduction of Training Opportunities for their
staff.
MCIT and MoH 6 Pillars
Framework
Egyptian Ambulance
development
Telemedecine &
Mobile
Applications
Resources
management ,
Building and
developing in the
health sector.
Strategic plan
of Information
Technology in
the healthcare
sector.
Automation and
Management
Systems for
hospitals and
health care
providers
Electronic
Medical
Records.
Strategic plan of Information Technology in the healthcare
sector For Interpretable Environment.
‘STAGE’ 
IT STRATEGY DEFINITION
VISION
SITUATIONAL ANALYIS
Previous Project
Finished
GAPS, CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
REQUIREMENTS AND PRIORITIZED STRATEGIC
TOR FOR
NATIONAL HEALTH IT MASTER PLAN
‘STAGE’ 
IT MASTER PLAN DEVELOPMENT INITATIVES BREAK DOWN
INTO A TANGIBLE PROJECTS ROADMAP TAKING INTO
CONSIDERATION PROJECT PRIORITIES AND DEPENDISIES. IN
ADDITION TO THE IT MASTER PLAN ROADMAP, THIS
PROJECT SHOULD ALSO DELIVER MULTIPLE RFPs FOR ALL
PROJECTS WITHIN THE ROADMAP
Current Project
‘STAGE’ 
EXECUTION
PLAN PRE-REQUISITES, MOBILIZE RESOURCES
EXECUTE BUSINESS AND IT PROJECTS
MANAGE PROJECT PROTFOLIO
MANAGE TRANSFORMATION
Supporting and Developing of Egyptian
Ambulance Authority
Ambulance Call Taking and Filtering
outsourcing Services
Fleet Management System
Emergency Medical Service Call Center
(EMSCC)
Ambulance Portal
ERP ,HR, archiving
Telemedicine & Mobile Applications
National PACS
Project
Women Healthcare
Mobile Unit Project
Pan Africa Network
E-Health Building Capacity program:
Start Date : September 2008
Project Objective : Provide high quality training program for health
organizations in Egypt with capacity 50.000 trainee
Training Programs:
• Computer literacy (ICDL)
• Medical informatics standards
• Medical informatics professional
The Egyptian Health Records Network and Family Health
Units(400 units)
Developing the information system and the data base
of the health records of the citizens with connecting all
the health units through the internet to the main
computer center to save information and use it in
obtaining a better medical and treatment care
Building a Clinical Information System that provide
geographical information which can be used in
determining health units locations and making a
number of analyzing operations and establishing the
needed models to solve the various problems
Information analysis using Data Warehousing and OLAP
.
Implementation of HIS challenges in
Egypt
•Human factors
•Lack of clear Roles and Responsibilities
regarding HIS operations
•Deficiency in current legislations
•Absence of Data Quality Control and Auditing:
E-Content
E-Content
• Developing a world-class, high-value digital content industry and
the required Arabic applications as a base for economic and social
development
• Increase the level and accessibility of Arabic online digital content
• Setting the environment ital content online
National Archiving Center Project
www.egynews.net
E-Justice
Real State and Notarization authority
Mar-10
Feb-10
100000
Jan-10
Dec-09
Nov-09
Oct-09
Sep-09
Aug-09
80000
Jul-09
Jun-09
May-09
Apr-09
60000
Mar-09
Feb-09
42996
Jan-09
Dec-08
Nov-08
Oct-08
Sep-08
Aug-08
21122 22789
Jul-08
Jun-08
May-08
Apr-08
Mar-08
Feb-08
Jan-08
Dec-07
Nov-07
20000
Oct-07
Sep-07
334
Aug-07
287
Jul-07
Jun-07
259
May-07
Apr-07
146
Mar-07
Feb-07
Jan-07
Automating Notarization offices
Number of transactions
120000
100286
94033
78222
83375
72226
66054
55409
40000
40055
26826 27664
12295 12290
4201
0
General Attorney
General Attorney
Human factors
– The value of a complete, accurate and up-to-date MR is not well
appreciated by healthcare providers on all levels (physicians, nursing
staff …).
– HCF managements more keen on collective medical data collection for
the sole purpose of statistics and reporting, which does not
necessarily mean that individual records are in good shape.
– The use of computers in general and medical coding present a barrier
for most of HCF end users.
Lack of clear Roles and Responsibilities regarding HIS
operations:
– New roles and responsibilities should be created and
assigned to each person in the HCF.
– Roles and Responsibilities should be clear and end-users
should have a solid understanding of their roles and their
responsibilities and their importance for the proper
operations of their HCF, the MOH and the patient.
– Some of the roles will be assigned to the regular HCF and
MOH end-users and other roles will be assigned to newly
created jobs only to perform these responsibilities
Deficiency in current legislations:
• undefined and impose a minimum data set that should be
documented in a systematic, up-to-date and clear way. HCF
and doctors are free to select what should be kept in the MR.
– No clear penalties for doctors with incomplete, unclear or
not up-to-date MR.
– Many front-office and back-office functions are duplicated
(paper and electronic) because of some of the MOH rules.
Absence of Data Quality Control and Auditing:
– There are no clear regulations or measures that insure the integrity,
completeness and accuracy of the collected data in the current
implementation.
– A hierarchical system of auditing and data QC should be implemented, and
enforced.
– Two types of measures should be implemented:
• Automated: HIS providers should implement these measures, which
analyze the current and historical data and provide indicators and alarms
about any suspicious record or incoherent values.
• Manual: Systematic and periodic review of records according to
predefined schemes to spot any anomalies in the records. Also manual
inspection is used on records flagged as suspicious to either confirm or
deny their quality.