FEATURE: AFRICA @ GITEX
Egypt and Nigeria to
continue dominating
African presence at GITEX
Government aided participation from
Egypt’s ITIDA and Nigeria’s ongoing
oil and gas digital transformation is
expected to drive regional participation
into this year’s GITEX 2017.
T
he Information Technology
Industry Development Agency
(ITIDA), the executive IT arm of
Egypt’s Ministry of Communications
and Information Technology,
participated in GITEX Technology Week
2016. Its presence in the annual ICT
event enabled Egyptian technology
firms participating under its umbrella
to consolidate investment and business
deals worth $2.1 million. The new
contracts and anticipated sales boosted
Egypt’s ICT market to record a sales
volume worth $10 billion, according to
the statistics from IDC.
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ITIDA has been sponsoring the
participation of Egyptian companies
in GITEX Technology Week for 11
consecutive years. In 2016, it extended
its support to 29 organisations. It
has adopted a number of criteria for
selecting companies to participate
under its umbrella, including the
firm’s expertise in the local market,
compatibility of its business with the
event’s theme, its export capacities,
availability of quality certificates,
and its official representation in
the event. ITIDA also reviews each
prospective company’s compatibility
with its strategy as well its extent of
participation in industry and its export
development programmes. ITIDA
continues to drive Egypt’s ICT sector,
the country’s second largest economic
contributor, in terms of growth. It also
extends support to the government’s
efforts to further spread technology
especially within the government and
other vital sectors in order to strengthen
both economic and social development.
The Egyptian Government’s ICT sector
strategy aims to increase the industry’s
contribution to the national GDP from
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