ICT Strategy for Development

ICT Strategy for Development

Author: 
Rateb, Dina
Place: 
Hershey, PA
Publisher: 
IGI Global
Date published: 
2010
Record type: 
Responsibility: 
Kamel, Sherif, jt. author
Editor: 
Kamel, Sherif
Journal Title: 
E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption
Source: 
E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption
Abstract: 

Emerging information and communication technology (ICT) is setting the pace for a changing, competitive and dynamic global marketplace and representing an enabling platform for business and socioeconomic development in the 21st century. In that respect, developing nations are urged to keep pace regularly with the developments taking place in the developed world through the design and implementation of strategy, vision and detailed plans for universal access in terms of ICT literacy and its effective utilization for developmental purposes were ICT is promoted as a vehicle for development. It is important to note that building the ICT infrastructure and infostructure will not realize quantum leaps in the development process unless it is coupled with concrete projects and initiatives that engage the society at large with its multiple stakeholders from public, private, government and civil society organizations irrespective of their locations whether urban or remote, gender or background. This chapter describes the evolution of the ICT sector in Egypt over the last decade with an emphasis on national ICT strategy development and deployment as an integral element of Egypt’s overall development process within the context of a an emerging economy and the various growing potentials ICT offers for its socioeconomic development.

Series: 
Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development

CITATION: Rateb, Dina. ICT Strategy for Development edited by Kamel, Sherif . Hershey, PA : IGI Global , 2010. E-Strategies for Technological Diffusion and Adoption - Available at: https://library.au.int/ict-strategy-development