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ICT in Health ICT in Education

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ICT in Education

The Egyptian Education Initiative is a public-private partnership that aims

to improve education in Egypt through effective use of Information & Communication Technology (ICT)

and to achieve the MDGs

Mission

PfE

EFA

EEI

Mission

Increase Egypt’s competitiveness, increase job opportunities for its citizens by investing in human resources development.

Create a future generation armed with knowledge and skills Information Communication Technologies (ICT).

Develop a new model for learning that inspires continuous improvement through lifelong learning.

Promote and market the concept of e-Leaning technologies

Establish a sustainable & replicable model to reach end beneficiaries

Effective Public Private Partnership

Cost Effective Infrastructure

to meet developing countries challenges

Mobile IT-clubs in rural areas

Class-Based ModelLab-Based Model

ScalableSustainableReplicable

Empowered Education Stakeholders 1. Specialized Training Programs to meet International & National ICT

Competencies Standards

Integrating ICT in the educational process to support critical thinking skills, problems solving, active learning, and engaged students

Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Level 4

Prerequisites

Very Basic IT Skills

D L

Basic IT Skills

ICDL

All Teachers Professional Teachers

Pioneer Teachers

IT Teachers

E-content Development

• ITTF• Innovation in Classroom

• ICT in Education• Think.Com

All Teachers

AdvancedE-content

Development

• ICT leadership

• Global Gateway

• School Self Evaluation

• Citizenship education

Advanced• MOS• Oracle Academy• Cisco academy• JDP

Empowered Education Stakeholders

2. Delivery Mechanisms facing volume challenges

(1.2 Million Teachers)

•Objective: Define a Training delivery framework

that is scalable, cost effective and assuring

the quality of the training process.

• Centralized approach (governorate-based or Moe based) vs. Decentralized approach (school-based)

•Online Training vs. Face-to-Face Training (Online Teach to the Future)

Availing Learning Resources

Egypt S&T PortalOffline CALD

Computer Aided Lessons Design

Objectives:

•Promote Instructors to develop their own e-content

•Develop tools that meet connectivity challenges

•Encourage collaboration between peer teachers

•Develop library of learning objects and learning resources

Web 2.0 Technologies

Objectives:•Promote Peer to peer learning•Encourage communication, participation and creativity

•Engage students in the learning and teaching process

•Informal, out-of-school activities can be attractive and inspiring, compared to the more familiar in-school curriculum.

Monitoring & Evaluation

• Developing Monitoring and Evaluation Strategy and Result-Base Framework

• School Baseline study

• Developing ICT-in-Education Indicators

• Capacity Building in Monitoring and Evaluation

• Pre-University Mid Term Evaluation

• E-learning Evaluation Study

• Pre-University Outcome Evaluation

ICT in Health

Projects Areas and Categories

The eHealth projects belong to the 6 categories below:1. Strategic plan of Information Technology in the healthcare sector.

2. Supporting and Developing of Egyptian Ambulance Authority

3. The Automation and Management Systems for hospitals and health care providers

4. Electronic Medical Records.

5. Resources management , Building and developing in the health sector.

6. Using of Information Technology in the treatment and remote diagnostics

Strategic plan of Information Technology in the healthcare sector.

These strategic objectives are:

- Providing a unified vision (Business – IT) as well as IT implications to achieve the vision and to optimize healthcare services.

- Defining long-term and short-term IT objectives, best practices and the prioritizations of IT projects.

- Typically focusing on information access from anywhere and anytime, automating administrative and medical processes and enabling new services (e.g. telemedicine, self-registration/scheduling, Monitoring )

- Detailed strategy which includes current situations of business and IT, Gap analysis , conceptual framework, Information models and governance model.

- Identifying applications that need to be deployed, removed or updated and which one has the most priority.

- Defining security and privacy models necessary for the governance of information

E- Content

Objectives

Improving access for all to high-quality digital content on the

global networks

Supporting the increased availability, use and distribution of

Arabic digital content

Partners

Ministry of Communications & Information Technology

as Enabler and Catalyst

Egyptian Publishers Union

eLearning & business Solutions Union

Hosting & ISP Co.

Content Development Co.

S/W Development Co.

Model

Content ProviderDigitization

Hosting

Online

Content

Portal +

DRM

ISPsEnd-User

• Building a gateway for Arabic content

• Digitization of selective Egyptian Publishers’ Books (2000 Books)

• Digitization of selective S/W applications (400 titles)

• Digitization of heritage books from Dar El-Kutub(50,000 books)

• Digitization of selective books from Dar El-Maaref (10,000 books)

• Digitization of National Theatre Content

• Digitization of Audio and Video of Sout ElKahera

• Availing the books of ElAzhar

• Availing the titles of Dar ElIftaa

• Digitization of Cinema Academy Content

Portals

Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC)http://www.egyptianrc.org

Central Agency for Public Mobilization & Statistics (CAPMAS)http://www.capmas.gov.eg

Cyber Peace Initiative (CPI)http://www.cyberpeaceinitiative.org

Telecentre Academyhttp://www.telecentreacademy.org.eg

ICT Trust Fund (ICT-TF)http://www.ictfund.org.eg

Against Child Traffickinghttp://www.child-trafficking.info

The 20th Anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Childhttp://www.crc20anniversary.com.eg

Egyptian Education Initiative (EEI)http://www.eei.gov.eg

Arab Telecommunications and Information Council of Ministers (ATICM)http://www.aticm.org.eg

Africa’s ICT Alumni Networkhttp://www.africaictalumni.gov.eg

Education Development for Universities in Egypthttp://www.eduegypt.gov.eg

Software Engineering Competence Centerhttp://www.secc.gov.eg

Egyptian National Archive house ProjectCULTNAT - IBM

• Digitizing 25 Millions Documents (200 Years Old

Documents)

• Scanning 100,000 Selective Documents

• Fully Integrated Database System

• Web Site Portal includes the E-Payment Possibility

• Barcode & Watermark Support

• 4 Years Project

• Job opportunities & Training ( more than 2000 positions)

CULTNATeHeritage

E- Safety and Digital Citizenship

Creating Synergies with all Concerned

Stakeholders

Law Enforceme

nt and procedural Measures

Technical Measures

Educational Effort

Initiatives

with

Civil Society

Legal Measures

Legal Measures

• - Penal Law and its article 58 for the year 1937

• - Child law 126 for 2008 - article 116 bis:– Criminalizes with hefty penalties use of computers, internet, intranet, or

cartoon to commit or instigate exploitation of children in prostitution or pornography even if the crime does not actually take place.

• - Telecom act 10 for 2003; establishing the consumers’ protection committee in telecom

- e-Signature law 15 for 2004; giving ITIDA authority to supervise e- transactions quality

- IPR law 82 for 2002

Law Enforcement

• Establishment of a dedicated department to confront cyber crimes – Law Enforcement “Cyber Crime and Data Networks department”; Decree 13507 for year 2002

• Confronts Cyber Crimes • Coordinates with Internet

Service Providers• Collaborates with Interpol• Hot Line

Educational Measures

• Disseminating safety messages in educational institutes- risks- safety tips- other countries’ experiences

• Including safety lessons in curriculum, as well

as in teachers’ training

• Forming the educators internet safety focus group

• Availing filters and safety tools

• Assisting in keeping teachers and educators up to date with respect of safety concerns in addition to standard skills and social networking developments (web 2.0 tools)

An Active Involvement for Civil Society

• The major effort led by an NGO; The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement: Breaking the wall of silence.

• Forming the Youth Internet Safety Focus Group (net – aman) and The Parents Internet Safety Focus Group

• Involving political parties in awareness campaigns

• Engaging Youth centers; IT clubs and NGOs through Egypt’s ICT Trust Fund.

• Discussing and disseminating concepts of netiquette and Digital Citizenship.

An Active Involvement for Civil Society

• The major effort led by an NGO; The Suzanne Mubarak Women’s International Peace Movement: Breaking the wall of silence.

• Forming the Youth Internet Safety Focus Group (net – aman) and The Parents Internet Safety Focus Group

• Involving political parties in awareness campaigns

• Engaging Youth centers; IT clubs and NGOs through Egypt’s ICT Trust Fund.

• Discussing and disseminating concepts of netiquette and Digital Citizenship.

The Cyber Peace Initiative- Work Methodology

• Peer to Peer training

• A Social- Public- Private Partnership

• Cascaded Training

• Leveraging existing projects in the ICT sector or other

projects of relevance from other sectors

• Partnering with international NGOs, the private sector and/

or Organizations for relevant material and guidance.

• Taking part actively in international initiatives

• Reaching out to the Arab world and Africa

•

Resources Kit

International Cooperation

Capacity Building

Initiating joint actions/ awareness

Council of Europe- INSAFE- e-NACSO

Diplo

Research and Comparative StudiesITU/ COP- ICMEC

All PartnersIT companies

Building knowledge together

Community development

Childnet International- ITU/ COP

e-Leaders Committee - UN GAID

WYSA- ITU

Participating in International dialoguesIGF- Dynamic coalition for Child On line

Safety

OECD Safety Forum- FOSI

Sharing Expertise & Resources

Child On line Safety In Egypt;

Key Milestones

• Enlisting international commitment to the cause. ITU Resolution adopted and stipulating the creation of an international working group on e-safety

• Implementing the e-safety project on the Arab level, as approved by the Arab Ministers for ICT; including the Arab Family Internet Safety Portal.

• Submitting a proposal for adoption on the African level.

Child On line Safety; Key Milestones

• Forming Egyptian experts in the field.

• Child on line Safety Indicators; discussing how to measure e- safety readiness.

• Engaging in the ongoing International dialogue on the issue by participating actively in initiatives (ITU/ COP).

• IGF 2009: an array of workshops on Child on Line Safety, covering best practices, issues, and concerns.

Egyptian GreenICT Strategy

• Since 1970, the production of greenhouse gases has risen by more than 70 %, and this is having a global effect in warming the planet, causing changing weather patterns, rising sea-levels, desertification, shrinking ice cover and other worrying long-term effects.

• Environment protection is a shared responsibility between the various ministries and sectors and one of the pivots to reach sustainable development .

• Sustainable development can be conceptually broken into three constituent parts: environment Sustainability, economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability.

Why green ICT now ?

Strategic Objectives

•Raise community awareness about Green ICT challenges and opportunities.

•Set fundamentals and national policies for Green ICT.

•Adopt a multi-stakeholder approach to address various green ICT challenges.

•Reduce the adverse environmental effects resulting from the expansion in the use of ICT.

•Support the use of communication and information technology as an effective tool to reduce GHG emissions resulting from other sectors.

The Framework

1. Raising Community awareness about Green ICT Program.

2. E-waste sustainable Management Program.

3. ICT solutions For a sustainable future program.

1.Raise Community awareness about Green ICT Program

1. Establishing a Green ICT Community of Expertise (CoE).

2. Organizing workshops and sessions to raise community awareness about green ICT.

3. Developing a training program for building capacities in the field of green ICT.

1.Raise Community awareness about Green ICT Program

4. Producing promotional material to raise community awareness about green ICT.

5. Compiling manuals to raise the awareness of public and private sector about Green ICT.

6. Establishing conditions and specification for Green ICT equipments in line with global trends.

2. E-waste sustainable Management Program

1. Conducting E-waste assessment report that covers the big Cairo governorate.

2. Implementing a program for raising the community awareness about E-waste threats and opportunities.

3. Supporting the participation of IT companies and institutions to start the implementation of pilot projects for e-Waste Management .

4. Participating in proposing legislation and laws to support the rational management of electronic waste .

3. ICT solutions For a sustainable future program.

1. Organizing workshops and sessions to raise community awareness about the role of ICT in dealing with the repercussions of climate change .

2. Establishing a pilot project for applying green and smart ICT applications in one building of the new technological areas-Maadi, and producing a study to determine the compatibility of the smart village buildings with the standards and architecture of green buildings.

3. Supporting the Ministry of State for Environment Affairs (MSEA) to establish a database with data relevant to climate change.

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