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

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