Global Arab Network – In what comes as no surprise for a country that used Facebook, Twitter and mobile phones to help overturn a political regime, a recent report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) stated that Egypt “is poised to emerge as a major player in the information economy”, Global Arab Network reports according to OBG.
UNCTAD, which carried out its assessment of Egypt’s information and communications technology (ICT) sector at the request of the government, published its first-ever ICT Policy Review for the country on October 26. Speaking at an event in Geneva to mark the launch of the report, Egypt’s then-interim minister of communications and information technology, Mohamed Salem, said that 2011 heralded “the dawn of a new era for ICT in Egypt, with even more Egyptians joining and embracing the information society as we continue to work to forge a knowledge economy”. Rest