Egypt’s National Program for ICT Inclusive Community Centers to Empower Persons with Disabilities

Details of the organization
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology
Egypt
http://www.mcit.gov.eg
Governments
  • The organization has a strategy for coordinating WSIS Implementation at the national level: Yes
  • The organization has a national e-strategy: Yes

Information about the project
Egypt’s National Program for ICT Inclusive Community Centers to Empower Persons with Disabilities
ICT-ICC
Egypt’s National Program for ICT Inclusive Community Centers (ICT-ICC) for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) program is the first national program to utilize ICT to provide an enabling inclusive environment to support the inclusion of PwDs into mainstream projects to promote social justice. ICT-ICC represents a milestone in the approach of the Egyptian Government towards the projects directed to PwDs, as it shifts from projects directed, only, to PwDs, to inclusive projects that serves their needs side by side to non-PwDs. Since PwDs were excluded, for decades, from capacity building programs, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) launched the ICT-ICC program to transform community centers across the country into accessible inclusive ones by equipping them with accessible ICT infrastructure, internet services, computer labs, and Assistive Technologies for different types of disabilities. In addition, MCIT provided capacity building grants to PwDs and non-PwDs in order to equip them for the job market, in cooperation with several reputable ICT and non- ICT companies; and NGOs in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) approach. Such approach was effective in overcoming the several challenges facing the program by leveraging the resources of the various partners. This program is currently operating at 55 centers at eight governorates, and delivered more than 16,000 capacity building grants. Due to its impact, the project became part of a Presidential Initiative to empower PwDs using ICT with a target of accessibilizing 200 centers at 20 governorates and providing 40,000 capacity building grants till the year 2020.
http://ict4sr.gov.eg/
National implementation: Egypt
Ongoing from 03/03/2013 to 31/12/2020
Ministry of Youth and Sports 8 Governorates (Cairo, Giza, Fayoum, Red Sea, New Valley, Kafr El Sheikh, Port Said, South Sinai) ICT companies: CISCO, Huawei, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone, Etisalat, Alcatel NGOs: Misr Elkheir, Daesen, other local NGOs on the governorates' level.

WSIS information
* Enabling environment
  • Goal 1: End poverty in all its forms everywhere
  • Goal 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
  • Goal 8: Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, employment and decent work for all
  • Goal 10: Reduce inequality within and among countries
  • Goal 11: Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable
  • Goal 16: Promote just, peaceful and inclusive societies
  • Goal 17: Revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development
  • Programme