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Egypt's tech-savvy government is making the country a force to be reckoned with in global IT outsourcing

Staring up at the gobsmacking antiquity of the Great Pyramid of Cheops, perched on the edge of the Western Desert just south of smog-shrouded Cairo, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that, for all its contemporary achievements, Egypt's finest days are behind it. After all, when the pyramids were built some 4,500 years ago, the best that British builders could do was to prop up a rickety-looking stone circle, just outside Amesbury in Wiltshire.

Not the most obvious setting for a technology-fuelled economic revolution then. Nonetheless, it is to the global market in IT outsourcing that Egypt has turned, as part of an effort to recapture some of the economic and political might it enjoyed in the time of the pharaohs.