Digital Egypt Builders Initiative (DEBI) is a unique initiative launched by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, and it was announced during the President’s inauguration of a number of educational facilities in September 2020. The Digital Egypt Builders initiative falls under the pillar "Building the Egyptian Person", which is one of the key pillars of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology's strategy for building Digital Egypt.
The initiative seeks to empower the next generation of Egyptian youth to become world-class leaders capable of implementing Egypt's digital vision.
Digital Egypt Builders Initiative Objectives are:
The initiative is a completely free scholarship offered to outstanding Egyptian students that will be selected according to specific conditions and admission criteria to be prepared as young cadres in various fields, including data science, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, embedded systems, digital arts, business analytics, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), software development, and electronics design. In addition, they will be enrolled in a training program for developing leadership and administrative skills, which will prepare qualified leaders to work in agencies and companies to transform Egypt into a first-class digital country.
This will be done using the latest technologies in the learning process and through a hybrid education that combines effective learning with distance learning, with the provision of an advanced campus in which students are received for several days a month to follow up on their academic progress and work on developing their technical skills.
The initiative is being implemented in cooperation with a number of major international universities through an e-learning platform, and local and international companies working in the fields of information and communication technology/ leadership development / language skills. The companies carry out many activities, including holding applied workshops in various technological fields and contributing to enriching the process, providing educational and training courses to develop students' skills and granting them accredited practical certificates after completing the training.
Based on the process of continuous development of the initiative, the initiative is divided into two programs:
The initiative does not require full time dedication during the study period, and the study period in both programs ends with the student’s completion of a graduation project, which is implemented in one of the national projects or international company projects, or as a project to establish a startup company, so that the student is thus qualified at the highest level to work in digital transformation projects. Students will contribute in building digital Egypt, working with major Egyptian and international technology companies or in the field of research and development in the ICT sector.
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