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Egypt 3.0 Competition Closing: Egyptian Youth Believe Information Technology is the Key Driver to a Better Egypt
Published Feb 2, 2012
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Intel announced that Egyptian youth came up with superb infrastructure plans that aim to shape a brighter future for Egypt based on ICT intelligence. The winners of the “Egypt 3.0” Facebook competition were among 400 contestants who all submitted creative plans focused on contributing to Egypt’s development in the fields of education, infrastructure, traffic and agriculture. The competition was inspired by the Intel Egypt Tomorrow initiative, which was launched in March 2011 with the aim of tackling how ICT can help in the development of Egypt in various sectors.
“We are highly impressed with the submissions for this competition,” said Nour Eldin Zaki, Intel Marketing Manager for the Middle East. “It is so inspiring to see the wealth of ideas that Egyptians have and realize the deep rooted love they have for their country. Through this competition, we were able to show the importance of technology as a tool to maximize and advance development in Egypt.”
Ahmed Mahmoud Ahmed Ebied, a 21 year old student from Cairo, came up with a project that is aimed at developing the Egyptian educational system by tailoring curriculums for the different governorates depending on their sector focus. To Ahmed, this will help build talent that can feed into the job market of each governorate. To exemplify one of Ahmed’s ideas, he thought about creating a public service for graduate students in factories and companies for graduate students of vocational high school who are unable to enter colleges during the period between graduation and recruitment to be a public service for fresh school graduates. His project “A Perspective Towards a Better Educational System” received more than 1,080 votes, and hence and took home the first place prize – a laptop based on the Intel® Core i5 processor. Ebied said “I am very excited to win this competition,” said Ebied. “As I believe that now is the time to think of development in Egypt. Intel’s social responsibility initiatives will be playing a major role in developing the country.”
The runner-up was Abd El Rahman Mohamed Reda Abd El Hak Gamal El Din, a 21 year old student from Al Sharkeya, who received 1,046 votes. Abd El Rahman was awarded an Intel® Core i5 processor for his project “The Optimum Usage of Revolutionary Technology,” which aimed at minimizing and eventually eliminating bureaucratic systems and processes at government institutions through the use of e-filing systems rather than paper filing. For this, he thought about establishing an electronic server that allows the government official to search and access state information electronically, saving both time and money.
Following in third place was Mohamed Ahmed Abdelazim, an 18 year old student from Tanta, with 1,024 votes. He was awarded an Intel® Core i3 processor for his project “E-Education Plans,” which focused on enabling students to not only access curriculums online, but to communicate with their teachers and colleagues via chat rooms resulting in e-class rooms that are interactive in nature. “This is a great initiative by Intel which allowed us to think about ideas that would help benefit our country in the current state it’s in. I very much enjoyed taking part in this competition and am so excited to make it in third place, amongst 400 other talented contestants!” commented Abdelazim.
Judging the competition were Intel Egypt’s Facebook fans who voted for the ideas they thought were most creative and appealing. Additionally, five more projects were nominated by a separate Intel judging committee who based their decision on several criteria namely innovation, reliance on new technology platforms, and feasibility of implementation.
One of those projects was about delivering the educational curriculum through multi-media like power point presentations, videos, and audio files (George Saleeb). Another contestant (Mostafa Salem) came up with a plan that provides traffic solutions through in-car technologies that give traffic updates and better safety instructions. Moreover, (Loay El Zoghby) offered the educational curriculum via the internet where students are able to download and upload information freely and at their convenience. (Hossam El Din Mohamed) proposed a project that developed a database configuration scheme for small scale industries to track progress through organization and data tracking. Finally, (Ahmed Omar) came up with a database scheme to keep medical and analytical files for patients with the Ministry of Health so that each patient has his/her own user name and registered number recording results of medical examinations and chronic diseases. All winners received external hard drives as a token of appreciation.
“The Egyptian talent pool is a force to be reckoned with,” added Zaki. “The ideas were both inspirational and original and will definitely help in creating a better and brighter future for the Egyptian society.”
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Check out the Intel Egypt Facebook fanpage and the Egypt 3.0 competition at http://www.facebook.com/IntelEgypt?ref=ts
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VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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