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
AbdelRahman El-Mawawi
T: +202 35 34 52 10
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