Minister Talaat highlighted the ministry’s eagerness to open more Digital Egypt creativity centers to further develop the youth’s digital skills
Minister Amr Talaat of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) discussed one of the ministry’s strategic goals to boost of self-employment and remote work in an online meeting with representatives of the Information Technology Institute (ITI) on Saturday.
This is done through empowering youth in the free job market via the Internet.
The online meeting were with ITI graduates who are self-employed and receiving training in Creativa Innovation Hubs. Representatives were located in Daqahleya, Menoufiya, Minya, Sohag, Qena, and Aswan.
Talaat highlighted the ministry’s eagerness to open more Digital Egypt creativity centers in various governorates to further develop the youth’s digital skills as well as encourage entrepreneurial work, which would have a positive impact on the advancement of the ICT industry.
The minister also stated that self-employment provides opportunities for many young people to acquire skills and work in new specializations without being constrained to a specific field of study.
This is particularly true, as the minister added, with the ITI and the National Telecommunication Institute’s (NTI) many programs in the fields of modern digital technologies to sharpen and deepen skills.
The MCIT launched several initiatives to further develop young self-employed Egyptians skills, including the “Your work from your home” initiative, implemented by the Information Technology Institute.
So far, there are more than 50,000 registered on the platform while those who completed qualified training have reached nearly 3,900 trainees.
The initiative includes technical content, self-employment skills content, and a base of experts from industry partners and partnering with freelance platforms.
Young self-employment pioneers reviewed the most important specializations and training paths that they undertook with the Egypt Digital Creativity Centers in the governorates. These have contributed to developing their skills and gaining great experience in self-employment via the Internet in technological fields.
The training opportunities have also qualified many of them to obtain high evaluations in global freelance platforms. As a result of these, they have had opportunities for non-traditional work in the regional and global markets with a profitable return that starts at an average of no less than $500 a month.
This includes opportunities with companies in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, Nigeria, India, Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia.
