3 - Strategic Objectives and Quantitative Targets
3.2 Quantitative Targets
First: ICT Sector Development
Second: The National Broadband Strategy
Table 3.1: Quantitative Targets in ICT Sector Development
Table 3.2: Quantitative Targets of the National Broadband Strategy
Aims
Area
Activities / Indicators
Linking 10% of telephone exchanges with fiber-optic cables
Table 3.1: Quantitative Targets in ICT Sector Development
Legislative amendments (Labor law, Telecom Law, Freedom of Information law)
Linking all schools and educational institutions to Broadband
Promoting use of e-signature applications in government agencies to provide government-togovernment (G2G) and government-to-citizen (G2C) services
Promoting
sustainable
development
Increasing the volume of e-commerce by 20%
Increasing the proportion of banking customers using online or mobile banking to 30%
Building a knowledge-based society in the Nile Basin region
Establishing a regional training center for the Nile Basin countries and Central Africa
Digitizing primary-level educational materials by 2015
Conducting an assessment of the size of e-waste in Greater Cairo as a step towards establishing a
sustainable model for e-waste management
Achieving ICT sector growth rates of 710%- over the next five years
Increasing the ICT sector’s contribution to GDP to 5%, and boosting annual exports of outsourced IT
services to $2.5 billion and intellectual property revenues to $1 billion
Increasing investment by 20% to LE 55 billion
Strengthening the
national economy
Increasing savings held with Egypt Post by an annual average of 15%
Increasing the number of outsourcing professionals, to create 75,000 job opportunities, and 30,000
in IT and 10,000 in the field of innovation
Establishing a national network of 20 technology parks
Increasing the number of secured Egyptian websites by 810%Increasing exports of software and embedded software to $500 million within two years
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Penetration
Mobile
Maintaining a national network of 2,000 IT Clubs
Long-term Aims
(2021)
75% of households have access to
90% of households have access to
Broadband (2 Mbps)
Broadband (25 Mbps)
98% of population with 3G coverage
90% of population with 4G/LTE coverage
4.5 million (22%) households subscribed to
9 million (40%) households subscribed to
broadband services
broadband services
8 million (10%) citizens subscribed to
14 million (15%) citizens subscribed to
mobile broadband services
mobile broadband services
50% of public service authorities connected
100%
to the internet at 25 Mbps
connected to the internet at 25 Mbps
50% of third-level Egyptian administrative
All
localities (Sheyakha and village) served by
localities served (Sheyakha and village) by
at least one public internet access point at
at least one public internet access point at
25 Mbps
25 Mbps
Availability
Fixed
information society
Increasing the number of Technology Homes across Egypt to 1,000
targets
Mobile
citizenship and
Table 3.2: Quantitative Targets of the National Broadband Strategy
Promoting digital
Fixed
Increasing the number of subscribers to Broadband to 13 million by 2015
Increasing the proportion of households with personal computers to 40% over the next five years
Short-term Aims
(2015)
Social/national targets
of
public
third-level
service
Egyptian
authorities
administrative