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RSS egyptEgypt hypes its offshore 'smart cred'
News Egypt wants to position itself as a North African hub for business process outsourcing (BPO) and 'nearshore' contact centres. Egypt's minister for communications and IT, Dr Tarek Kamel, told silicon.com... [08 Jun 2006]
Egypt touts itself as next offshore outsourcing hot-spot
News Egypt is making a pitch to be the next offshore outsourcing hot-spot, claiming that its foreign language skills and low labour costs put the country in a strong position to compete with India and eastern Europe. [10 Feb 2006]
Photos: Egypt follows Bangalore's offshore lead
Photo Ancient Pharaohs and pyramids may be what Egypt is most famous for but the country is now making a charge to become the next high-tech offshore outsourcing hotspot for European and US multinationals looking for cheaper... [10 Feb 2006]
Real Exchange Rate Behavior and Economic Growth - Evidence from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia
White Paper This paper examines the effect of the real exchange rate misalignment (RERMIS) on the collective economic growth of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. The paper constructs three measures of exchange rate misalignment... [25 Feb 2004]
Ancient Egypt goes online with IBM
News The Eternal Egypt project has created a centralised digital database of Egyptian historical and cultural resources taken from nine separate Egyptian sites and museums. The database includes 32 three dimensional, high... [26 Feb 2004]
Vodafone Egypt Achieves Dramatic ROI Using BMC Remedy Service Management Solutions
White Paper In 1998, the telecommunications giant Vodafone Group made a major investment in the rapidly expanding Egyptian telecommunications market, establishing Vodafone Egypt through a Joint Venture Agreement of international and... [05 Jan 2007]
Modernization Campaign Grows Egypt's Economy, Provides Training Solutions
White Paper After the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology in Egypt adopted a national plan to facilitate the country's modernization, demand for qualified consultants for Microsoft Dynamics business management... [20 Feb 2008]
An Unqualified Training Success Story!: The Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management Sends a Mobile Education Team to Egypt
White Paper The Defense Institute of Security Assistance Management (DISAM) Mobile Education Teams (MET) have traveled to Egypt in 1991, 1998, and 2001. To meet the EAA request for the 2003 class, DISAM sent a MET to... [10 Apr 2008]
Nortel Network Case Study: Telecom Egypt
White Paper Telecom Egypt, the incumbent telecommunications provider in Egypt, is also the largest provider of fixed-line services in the Middle East with more than 10.8 million customers as of December 2006. In a... [19 Dec 2007]
Engineering Firm Leads the Way in Egypt With Messaging Infrastructure Upgrade
White Paper Dar Al-Handasah, an engineering and architecture consultancy based in Egypt, wanted to improve its communication and collaboration system to match growth in the business. Its engineers and architectures depend heavily on... [02 Jul 2008]
Vodafone Egypt Gets Set To Extend Market Leadership with 3com Urn Technology and Gigabit Switching
White Paper Since entering the Egyptian market in 1998, Vodafone Egypt has achieved market dominance through providing a continually updated range of pioneering, world-class mobile services. Having decided that a wholesale redesign... [25 Feb 2004]
Offshore outsourcing upstarts bite at India's heels
News India may be the best known destination for offshore contact centres but 'nearshore' countries such as Egypt also want to get a piece of the action. Following India's success, many countries such as Argentina,... [07 Jun 2006]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Offshoring, Cairo and KFC
Comment Egypt might be famous for its pyramids and mummies but it's not stuck in the past, as our perceptions of it might be. And Egyptian execs admit that foreigners - especially from the US - can't see any difference between... [14 Jun 2006]
A New Direction: Service Delivery To Your Desktop
White Paper The American University in Cairo (AUC) in Egypt is one of the largest and oldest educational institutions in the Middle East, with five campuses distributed throughout Cairo. A technology platform had been built over a... [20 Feb 2008]
Banque Misr Safeguards Profitability and Reputation With Improved Threat Management
White Paper Banque Misr provides corporate, retail and Islamic banking services in Egypt. To help its corporate customers grow their businesses, the bank wants to be able to offer not only excellent financial services but also... [12 Jun 2008]
