Entrepreneurship Empowerment Symposium, Opening Remarks

1. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EMPOWERMENT SYMPOSIUM
Education Technology and Innovation for Entrepreneurship Empowerment
November 7th 2010, Smart Village
Yasser Kazem
Director, E-Learning Competence Center
Ministry of Communications and Information Technology

2.  Average number of Facebook users in Egypt
is 4.1M - in the world 500M
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 Average number of Twitter users in Egypt is
270K - in the world 100M --- Google
 Average views on YouTube in Egypt is over
15M playbacks per day - in the world
1B playbacks per day --- Google
The Power of Social Media!

3. The Power of Social Media!
US President Obama raised 6.5 million
donors to his elections campaign
through Social Media.

4. The Power of Social Media!
Years to reach 50M users:
 Radio 38 yrs
 TV 13 yrs
 Internet 4 yrs
 iPod 3 yrs
 Facebook 100M in less than 9 months!
----YouTube –Is Social Media a fad?

5. The Power of Social Media!
All Multinationals and big companies are
using Social Media for the growth of
their business!

6. Our Vision
“To Integrate cutting-edge ICTs in the educational reform
plans and learning processes and help enhance Egypt’s socio-
economic development and to secure a strong competitive
position in the global market”
Our Mission
“To contribute to Egypt’s economic growth and global
competitiveness by enhancing workforce performance and
creating job opportunities through high quality, practical,
state-of-the-art e-Learning and human resources
development activities in compliance with the government
and business communities evolving needs”

7. EEI Logo
 700 e-Learning Delivery Centers all over Egypt
 200 Graduates from the E-Learning diploma
 4 Course developed and localized
 Egypt’s Lifelong Learning Portal

8. ELCC is the Regional Training Center to
Cisco Entrepreneur Institute

9. Global Entrepreneurship Program

10. Web Communications Diploma
 Web Strategies
 Social Media
 Web Marketing
 Web Monetization
 Web Analytics
 Web Content

11. ENTREPRENEURSHIP EMPOWERMENT SYMPOSIUM
Education Technology and Innovation for Entrepreneurship Empowerment
November 7th 2010, Smart Village