Developing Egyptians’ leadership and administrative skills - The Egyptian Gazette

Developing Egyptians’ leadership and administrative skills

By Marwa Moneer - The Egyptian Gazette

CAIRO - Minister of Communications and Information Technology Maged Osman, and Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Amr Ezzat Salama have recently signed a co-operation protocol between Telecom Egypt’s Leadership Development Centre and the Technical Faculties Development Project.

According to this agreement, training sessions on leadership and administrative skills are to be provided to technology faculties’ professors, leaders and administrators affiliated to the Ministry of Higher Education.

The educational level of these calibres shall always keep pace with the rapidly increasing market requirements of higher technology-related skills in different sectors, according to officials. The period of this signed protocol is five years and is to be renewed according to both sides willingness.

As a first stage, the Leadership Development Centre at Telecom Egypt has already provided eight training sessions for 120 trainees representing the elite of scientific calibres at universities and institutions affiliated to the ministry. The total training hours reached 180 along 30 days.

These training courses have achieved a distinguished success praised by the ministry’s trainees themselves. Upon this success, the Technical Faculties Development Project attached to the Ministry of Higher Education proposed to provide more sessions and prepare for a co-operation protocol so that the Leadership Development Centre at Telecom Egypt could pursue the training process.

Viewing that Telecom Egypt has various training sites nationwide, trainers at the Leadership Development Centre, affiliated to Telecom Egypt, will be providing training sessions for the trainees of the Ministry of Higher Education at the nearest locations to their working places in all governorates in order to reduce burden on trainees.

In a previous stage, the Ministry of Higher Education proposed a tender for the provision of training sessions regarding leadership and management skills for faculties’ professors, and leaders. The Leadership Development Centre was ranked the first on this tender.

This is due to the distinguished level of training courses and qualified trainers working at the centre and its ability to meet the training requirements of the Ministry of Higher Education.

Pilot program for 3G mobile broadband use in remote diagnosis of patients launched in Egypt | Egov Innovation, Government Solution in Asia

Pilot program for 3G mobile broadband use in remote diagnosis of patients launched in Egypt | Egov Innovation, Government Solution in Asia

By eGov Innovation Editors | May 1, 2011
CAIRO – A pilot program to test the technology framework which enables dermatologists to use 3G mobile network to diagnose skin conditions remotely was launched recently in Egypt by various government agencies and the private sector.

Involved in the initiative were Qualcomm's Wireless Reach initiative, Egypt's leading mobile operator Mobinil, ClickDiagnostics, the Egyptian Ministry of Health (MOH), and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT).

Under the program, physicians can now take photographs of patient skin conditions and capture symptoms in text format using a 3G-enabled wireless device. This information is then sent through Mobinil’s 3G HSPA mobile broadband network to swiftly obtain diagnosis from specialists working elsewhere.

During the pilot phase, both an onsite physician and a remote specialist diagnose skin conditions, and the results are then compared to confirm the prognosis. To date, diagnosis comparisons completed during the pilot have demonstrated full agreement in 82.2 percent of cases examined.

The medical staff at the clinics has been equipped with handsets with high-resolution cameras and an application that enables them to send photographs and contextual information about skin conditions to the appropriate specialist.

ClickDiagnostics developed the software application and participated in the development of the business model, training, testing and implementation.

Qualcomm said teledermatology has been successfully used in clinics throughout the world, but the equipment and processes currently used for teledermatology, such as digital cameras, laptop or desktop computers and wired Internet connectivity, often make telemedicine services cumbersome to use and deploy, and expensive to expand and scale.

"Mobile phones can combine the functionality of this equipment into a smaller, less expensive, portable device and 3G networks support the high-bandwidth data transfer required to send high-resolution photos over the Internet," it said.

“This project is an example of how Mobinil’s state-of-the-art network can improve the lives of Egyptians,” added Hassan Kabbani, chief executive officer of Mobinil. “We will continue to work in this direction by cooperating with various parties in diverse fields to make Mobinil’s network technology resources available to serve more than 30 million customers. Mobinil has drawn on the expertise and resources of all the project partners to develop the business model and technology underpinning the remote diagnostics service.”