India, Egypt can work together in IT area

Information technology is one of the areas where India and Egypt can work together as both the countries have the potential in that sector, India's envoy to Egypt has said.

Ambassador Sanjay Bhattacharyya's comments came during a roundtable "Digitisation in India and Egypt" which was organised yesterday at the Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture (MACIC), the cultural wing of the Embassy of India in Zamalek.

The roundtable was part of the of 'MACIC Roundtable', a monthly seminar series involving youth, academicians, civil society on the issues of mutual interest between India and Egypt.

"Egypt is quite the market leader, very defiantly, the regional superpower in IT, the kind of developing that you have, the research infrastructure of the region, the kind of startups, the youth population that you have, these factors makes Egypt a natural leader," Bhattacharyya said.