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Egypt launches digital forensic lab to combat
software piracy
T
he Government of Egypt has announced
that it is setting up a specialised digital
forensic lab for intellectual property as part
of its enforcement schemes of combating
software piracy.
The new lab, the first of its kind in the MENA
region, is mainly designed to resolve business
software and internet-based piracy cases.
It authentically recovers data from digital
devices and unearths new fraud techniques.
The latest measures applied aim to enhance
the investigative capabilities and ease the
digital forensic evidence acquisition, analysis
and reporting. a roadmap for judges, prosecutors and
lawyers. The practiced procedures enable
them to distinguish the counterfeit
products from the genuine and manage
the intellectual property and digital piracy
issues at hand.
The cutting-edge techniques and latest
technologies employed in the lab devise The Information Technology Industry
Development Agency (ITIDA), which develops
the IT industry in Egypt, hosts the
lab at its premises. The agency is the
executive IT arm of the Egyptian ICT
ministry to enforce IPR related to
software products and databases.
The Government of
Egypt is setting up
a specialised digital
forensic lab for
intellectual property
“Over the last couple of years,
ITIDA’s IPR office has undertaken
comprehensive actions to increase
IP enforcement with all the
stakeholders like the economic courts
i.e. judges and prosecutors, police
officers and copyright owners,” said
Dr Mohamed Hegazy, Egypt’s IPR
Office Manager.
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Bank to the Future forum comes to Ivory Coast
T
emenos, a software specialist for banking and finance, welcomed
the leaders that are driving real change across the industry in
Africa at the Bank of the Future forum. The event took place at the
Sofitel Hotel Ivoire in Abidjan, Ivory Coast and focused on software
solutions for the digital future of financial services.
The Bank to the Future forum was held in
Ivory Coast
According to the McKinsey Global Report 2018, Africa’s retail banks
have compelling reasons to embrace digital transformation, with its
overall banking market being the second fastest growing and second
most profitable of any global region.
Nearly 300 million Africans are banked today, which could rise to 450
million within five years, while 40% of Africans prefer to use digital
channels for transactions.
“There are many ways and no shortage of opinions on how to
become digital and the journey in many cases will be painful,”
said Ivan Bladel, Director for French Speaking Africa at Tememos.”
He added that the forum is an opportunity for those in the
banking sector to begin the journey to digital transformation
with a focus on:
• Satisfying customers with consistent, personalised, instant and
integrated experiences across all products, on all channels,
anytime and anywhere
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• Replacing a patchwork of legacy systems with end-to-end, fully
integrated and open digital banking software
• Driving cost-efficiencies, error-reduction and increasing the speed
to bring new products to market that are not only inevitable, but
essential to their competitive edge
• Accelerating into an era of open banking where they can
collaborate with an ecosystem of third parties to add more value
to their customers’ lives
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