Amr Talaat | |
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Minister of Communications and Information Technology | |
Assumed office 14 June 2018 | |
President | Abdel Fattah el-Sisi |
Prime Minister | Mostafa Madbouly |
Preceded by | Yasser ElKady |
Website | mcit |
Amr Talaat (Arabic: عمرو طلعت) is the Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology. He is a computer scientist and former business executive.[1] Talaat was appointed on 14 June 2018.[2]
Before joining the Government of Egypt, Talaat worked for IBM Egypt, rising through various positions.[3]
Talaat's tenure as Minister has included projects to develop and secure Egypt's IT & telecom infrastructure, expand education and training in advanced digital technologies, and improve government performance and quality of services offered to the citizen. His main program is titled the Digital Egypt Strategy.[4][5]