About the project
From 2005 till 2008,
the ministry of higher education managed to implement and fund the higher
education evolution project (HEEP) which included six main projects, among
which was the information and communication technology project (ICTP). During
this period, the ICTP funded a number of projects in the supreme council of
universities which aimed at upgrading the level of benefit from information
technology in the Egyptian universities, as well as at reducing the digital gap
through working on the following elements:
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The infrastructure of the universities' information networks.
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Management information systems
·
portal
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E-learning
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The digital library
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Training in information technology
At the beginning of
June 2009, the ministry of higher education financed the ICTP from its budget
with the aim of the continual development of the following elements:
The infrastructure
of information networks
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Projects of establishing and developing the infrastructure of
information centers in the universities.
·
Projects of increasing the networking points in the universities using a
fund from the communications ministry.
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The project of completing the infrastructure of the Egyptian
universities' network in the supreme council of universities.
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The project of developing an information centre in the ministry of
higher education.
Management
information systems
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Projects of developing and operating the applications of management
information systems in the universities and technological faculties.
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Projects of constituting an electronic gate for universities and
technological faculties.
Establishing an
electronic gate for the universities
·
Projects of the electronic gate include all faculties and universities.
E-learning
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Projects of activating the use of information technology in education
through e-learning.
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Competitive projects for producing and publishing electronic curricula
for a number of study programs.
The digital
libraries
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Projects of completing the constitution of a unified index for the
university libraries.
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The project of establishing a national digital repository of scientific
dissertations and researches.
Training in information technology
·
Projects concerned with training in information technology.
In the financial year 2012-2013, projects
of technological services were newly introduced in the faculties. Also, there
was an announcement of competitive projects so as to convert the academic
programs into electronic ones, and the universities were entitled to evaluate
these projects in order to be funded during the financial year 2012.