"A crucial element of Egypt's e-government project is the automation and centralization of the country's federal accounting procedures, which will ensure greater efficiency and transparency in our financials," said Dr. Ashraf Abdel Wahab, Senior Advisor to the Minister of State for Administrative Development.
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Inaugurating the proceedings of the preparatory Arab conference for information technology summit, Nazif said Egypt is currently accelerating pace for transferring to the e-government through restructuring the state machinery and facilitating electronic dealings in order to develop economic performance.
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Smart cards will make people's lives easier as well as bridge the digital divide with the rest of the world by bringing modern technology to a broad spectrum of society, agreed guest speakers at the Third Middle East and Africa Card Technology (Card-Ex) Exhibition and Conference last week.
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