ICT Enabled Youth Social Enterprises

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ICT Enabled Youth Social Enterprises

• Abdallah Diwan
• AYIN

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What is social enterprise?

• Social enterprises are organizations whose
  mission is to bridge social opportunities into
  sustainable reality innovatively, effectively and
  efficiently.
• Returns in economic, social and environmental
  return.

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What is the ICT Trust Fund?

• The Egyptian Information and Communication
  Technology Trust Fund was jointly established by
  the Ministry of Communication and Information
  Technology (MCIT) and the United Nations
  Development Programme (UNDP) in January 2002.
• The Fund is a mechanism to foster socio-economic
  development by creating public-private
  partnerships to support the use of Information
  and Communication Technologies (ICT).

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ICT Trust Fund (cont.)

• The Fund currently sponsors five main projects,
  with the aim of furthering development in Egypt
  by increasing awareness of ICT and its benefits
  as well as making it more accessible and
  affordable to all citizens. By empowering
  communities with access to valuable tools,
  skills, training and information, the ICT Fund
  hopes to widen the horizons of Egyptian citizens
  and increase their competitive advantage in a
  modern technological society.

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Community Development Portal

• The main objective of the project is to help
  young Citizens in rural areas and suburbs to use
  ICT to improve
• Skills
• Employment opportunities
• Income
• Health
• Education
• Agriculture
• General Knowledge
• Empowering Young Citizens to join the knowledge
  and Information Society

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Projects 4 stages

• 1. Creating the local and relevant content
• 2. Establishing partnerships with local NGOs,
  CSOs, IT Clubs, Religious institutions, to
  establish local Access points (Nodes)
• 3. Providing Internet Access and tools
• 4. Grassroots activities

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1. Content global objectives

• Empower people through knowledge.
• Increase socio-economic standards.
• Raise awareness.
• Build capacities.
• Enhance decision making.

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Content Sources
Encourage Content generation And identification
Local People
Relevant Content generated and identified
locally
Increased gradually
CONTENT
Content provided
Content Development Unit Content Partners
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Content can be

• Documents
• Links
• Books
• Applications (GIS, Library, School Management,
  etc.)
• Animation / Presentations
• Video, Audio streaming
• E-learning modules
• Forums, chat

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CDP project Mechanism
Egypt ICT Trust Fund
Outreach team ( UNVs)
Menya
Giza
Gharbeya
Sharkeya
Damyeta
Assuit
50 CSOs
Internet usage, emails, building websites, blogs,
CVs writing, job seeking, capacity building in
ICT, etc
Activities
Individuals, organizations, private and public
sector
End beneficieries
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Thank You

• Abdallah Diwan
• abdallahdiwan_at_gmail.com or adiwan_at_mcit.gov.eg
• www.kenanaonline.com
• www.ictfund.org.eg