ITIDA Sponsors 11 Egyptian ICT Companies at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2016

Barcelona, Spain – February 2016: Egypt, one of the fastest growing outsourcing destinations worldwide, will showcase current developments of its ICT industry at the world’s largest telecommunications tradeshows, GSMA Mobile World Congress (MWC). 

Egypt participates for the fifth time at MWC, the world’s largest exhibition and conference for the mobile industry held in “Fira Gran Via” venue in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain on 22 -25 February 2016. At the EgyptOn 96-square-meters booth (located in hall 7), the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) is accompanied by a delegation of eleven local ICT companies presenting the national ICT sector. 

ITIDA, the IT arm of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, offers a wide range of programs supporting the Egyptian ICT companies in marketing their products and services, training their personnel, and building their capacities on both institutional and individual levels. Collective events and commercial trips are two of the vital programs offered by ITIDA to create new business opportunities, and networking channels. These programs help the local businesses penetrate offshore markets and increase ICT exports. 

Egypt participated last time in GSMA Mobile World Congress in 2014. At that time, the expected sales valued at more than 12 million Euro after business deals closed by the Egyptian companies.

Three of the sponsored companies are strategic partners; five are business partners and three visitors. Strategic partners include Giza Systems, a leading systems integrator in the MEA with clients in 40 countries with anchor offices in Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai, Nairobi, Dar-es-Salaam and Abuja, designs and deploys industry-specific tech solutions for Telecom, Oil and Gas, Transportation industries.

HOI-MEA is a strategic partner operates in the MENA and Gulf regions for telecoms, industrial, construction, and agricultural sectors. The seven factories of HOI, offer monopoles, self-supporting, and guyed communication towers. HOI-MEA designs and manufactures innovative communication products such as Camouflage or Decorative Solutions, Rapidly Deployed Solutions and Mobile Products. 

The third strategic exhibitor is Xceed, the leading multilingual BPO service provider in EMEA with 2200 web enabled multi-channels stations, managing programs for clients covering 4 different continents, in 7 different languages. The BPO giant offers the services of inbound, outbound, back office, Omni channel support, infrastructure management, helpdesk support, recruitment process outsourcing and shared services outsourcing.

The five business partners encompass Bright Creations, a digital software agency developing innovative products and offering digital marketing services in the MEA, Europe and USA. Its offices in Dubai and Cairo offer the services of mobile application design and development, creative design, website design and development and analytics. PassIn; a passive time and presence employee’s tracker, the smartphone app Nav&Go and the travel app TravelBucket are among the products exhibited by the agency.

MAG Consulting is an IT/Telecom company supporting mobile operators and vendors in MEA and North America by enhancing customer experience, network quality and reducing churn. MAG’s full suite of customizable products and platforms supports E2E network quality, radio planning and optimization, network field and L1, L2 and L3 maintenance and network rollout. MAG produces the brands Witune, Smart FM and ERP for Telecoms. 

Nilecode Meunity is a multiservice innovation management and consulting company catering high profile companies in MENA, USA and UK, with offices in KSA, Bahrain and Egypt. Specialized in BI&ERP systems, e-commerce solutions, gaming, custom development for web and mobile applications and integrated solutions, Nilecode launched a new business line for big data analysis, AI and machine learning, enterprise solutions through a partnership with the Belgian “Odoo”.

Smart Villages Company (SVC) is among the most successful PPP models in the region. It manages profitably the largest, most prestigious and successful Business Park and Technology Cluster in the MEA, Smart Village Egypt which specializes in communications and  information technology and financial services. SVC developed a unique expertise in managing different service providers for the benefit of the community. Forty thousands professionals go daily to their work at 160 multinational/national companies in Smart Village.

Youxel Technology is a joint stock company focusing on mobility and internet of things. Youxel helps big enterprises in the ME shape their mobility strategy, co-work to execute the strategy through developing right mobility solutions. Youxel collaborated with MNCs like HP, Microsoft, IBM and SAP. Youxel is the preferred mobility partner for HP. The company develops iOS/Android mobile applications, cross platform mobile apps, web portals and web applications while provides ITSM management solutions.

Egypt is perceived as a primary country for Sourcing and IT Services in EMEA region and the country is already home and delivery center for several global enterprise companies and hundreds of multinational and regional players with services exports growth rate of 15%. Egypt is gearing up to be a multicenter offshore location by the government investment in spreading technology parks across Egypt with plans in place for new facilities in Alexandria, El Mansoura and Assiut.

About ITIDA:

The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) is a governmental entity affiliated to Egypt’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. It is responsible for growing and developing Egypt’s position as a leading global outsourcing location by attracting foreign direct investment to the industry and maximizing the exports of IT services and applications.

Located in the heart of the modern business environment at Smart Village, the six hundred acre business park on the outskirts of Cairo, ITIDA is a self-sustainable entity that drives the IT industry in Egypt and raises awareness among the Egyptian people of the benefits and use of ICT to advance socioeconomic welfare of the whole community.

Contact details:

AbdelRahman El-Mawawi

T: +202 35 34 52 10

E: arahman@itida.gov.eg