Egypt ranks 4th globally in terms of density of independent professionals

Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, met with a group of freelancers who are joining the local and global freelance market via the Internet. This was during the activities of the Independent Professionals Forum organized by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology at the Digital Egypt Creativity Center – Giza.

The meeting came in light of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology’s (MCIT) keenness on opening the door for a constructive dialogue with the freelancers community with the aim of developing the independent professionals sector, enabling them to achieve professional success, and compete in the freelance labor markets via the Internet.

In his speech during the meeting, Talaat explained that MCIT developed a strategy five years ago to expand training grants and the number of trainees from 4,000 to 225,000 trainees.

He stressed that the Ministry’s strategy for technical training aims to find job opportunities for trainees and also generate jobs for young people outside Egypt to work from their homes. He also stressed that these initiatives resulted in an improvement in Egypt’s ranking by two places within two years in the classification of the number of independent professionals in relation to the population, to become the fourth in the world, up from the sixth position to the 14th position.

Talaat added that the ministry plans to integrate self-employment skills into all training courses offered by the ministry, referring to the “Our Future is Digital” initiative launched by the Ministry to empower youth in the self-employment market. He noted that the number of specializations has been increased by the initiative from three to 11 specializations, and the self-employment courses will be expanded on the “Maharah Tech” platform, as two training tracks will soon be launched, one for cybersecurity, and the other for artificial intelligence and data analysis.