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14 November 2006….
Minister of State for Administrative Development, Dr. Ahmed Darwish, met on 13th November, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the Asian Ambassadors accredited in Cairo. The meeting was attended by Assistant Minister for Asian Affairs, Ambassador Ali Hosam El-Din El-Hefni and Assistant Minister, Head of the Information Technology Department, Ambassador Mohamed El-Amir Khalil.
Dr. Darwish began the meeting by referring to the challenges facing Egypt, which delay the administrative and human resources development at the manner and pace desired. He stated that the "the government's services reaches you wherever you are” is the slogan of the Ministry of State for Administrative Development, which aims to save the citizen's time and effort. The Ministry’s objective is to boost the level of the governmental administration as regards to performance, techniques, and cadres to keep up with the changes and be integrated in the international system.
Dr. Darwish mentioned that that there are a number of secondary projects to be implemented including the family ID, which aims to link the national ID database with the other family databases. Amongst other projects, are a real-estate registration project, a project for tracking those not seeking education, and a project for linking the national ID with the national health offices.
He pointed to the progress achieved by Egypt in the fields of administrative, human resources and electronics upgrading, which prompted many countries in the Arab and African region to seek Egypt's technical support, such as United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, as well as nine other African countries.
He praised the level of training the Egyptian cadres are offered in some Asian countries which have pioneering experience, in addition to that offered by other non-Asian countries. However, he mentioned that the number of the Egyptian cadres offered training is insufficient, stating that Egypt anticipates to train 150 trainees annually, according to the scheduled plan to train 650 personnel, from the various sectors of administrative bodies to create experts and pioneers in each respective field.
Dr. Darwish commended the Asian experience, in its diversity and nature, especially in the fields of human and administrative developments and electronic government.
He mentioned the tour he scheduled to carry out in December 2006 and January 2007 to four Asian countries (India, Singapore, China and Malaysia) in order to get acquainted with their achievements in this field and inform them about the level Egypt has reached in this regard.
Ambassador Ali El-Hefni remarked that Egypt is an active member in a number of forums which bring together Asia with the Arab, African or Middle Eastern countries. He also added that Egypt has to seize the opportunity to benefit from the Asian expertise in a wide range of fields including the administrative and human development. |