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Fawry, Egypt's leading banking and payment technology services company, today announced the launch of its nation-wide electronic bill payment and presentment (EBPP) network to support the growing demand by Egyptians for advanced bill payment facilities, and bringing Egypt to the forefront of e-payment technology.

The Fawry network and service of the same name, enables Egyptians to conveniently receive all their bills and pay them securely through a single, unified electronic network that is integrated with existing Bank payment channels such as online banking systems, ATM machines, mobile banking systems, call centers and Integrated Voice Response (IVR) systems.

Read more: Egypt: Fawry launches first nation-wide electronic bill payment and presentment network

OECD to conduct e-government peer review to guide further policy implementation

The Egyptian government has announced that it's e-government initiatives will undergo a peer review, conducted by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

The review, which was announced yesterday by Egypt's Deputy Minister of State for Administrative Development, His Excellency Dr. Ashraf Hassan Abdelwahab, will provide an objective assessment on the country's e-government programs, to help guide further development and improve existing implementations.

Read more: Egypt to undergo e-government review

Less than ten years ago, the Egyptian government established the ministry of technology and has been showing its teeth in new and innovative projects that are pushing the country into the Internet age. Although it has been somewhat of a teetering ride, as of August 2007, six million Egyptians were regular Internet users. The number seems small, that is only 8.3 percent of the population, but optimistically speaking, that is a major increase from the 450,000 users only seven years ago.

Government ministries are currently in the process of conducting major makeovers to their Web sites in an effort to reel in more clients and make access easier, despite the pessimism across the web.

Read more: Egypt: Web development on the ups

E-signature is expected to reduce paperwork, bureaucracy and fraudwhile increasing transparency and efficiency in the business world

In today’s technologically advanced world, documents and correspondences that were once sent by post are now exchanged electronically. This exchange takes place smoothly until a signature is required in the transaction. Then the entire process falls back to the real ‘e-less’ world of paper documents, faxes, snail-mail and even physical presence.

Read more: Egypt Signs Up

Egypt’s E-Finance and Bahwan CyberTek announced that the electronic payment services at Cairo was operational in its first phase and the first set of 293 pensioners were paid through the system on the first day of the operation.

E-finance is the new Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment (EBPP) service provider in Egypt. E-Finance is a joint venture created between National Investment Bank, Raya Holding, National Bank of Egypt, Banque Misr, and Egyptian Banks Company (EBC).

Read more: Egypt’s E-Finance system first phase goes live

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