Reducing Internet prices could ensure an increase in the number of customers served to over 50 percent of the population by the end of 2016, a human rights advocacy group has said in a recent study.
“If Internet prices are cut, infrastructure and coverage are expanded and Internet laws and regulations are modernized ... Businesses, especially SMEs and entrepreneurs, (will) conduct more online commercial activities (e.g. online export), resulting in increased economic activity,“ said a study by the Egyptian Center for Economic and Social Rights (ECESR).
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It’s a relic that certain ambitious entrepreneurs want to change. Supported by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (CIT), they are pushing through small, though influential, reforms to how government is done in Egypt.
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Egypt’s MCIT said the meeting was in line with the framework of implementing MCIT strategy and pursuing consultations to activate ministries cooperation and integration system, resulting in a number of national projects where ICT tools can play a major role in improving performance. Several issues were discussed during the meeting, like creating a network between offices and governorates and also Arab States before the end of the current year.
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