Kuwaiti newspapers highlight Sisi's statements on digitization
Thursday's editions of Kuwaiti newspapers
highlighted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi's statements on
digitization, which he gave at a session on digital transformation held on the
sidelines of the 7th edition of the National Youth Conference.
Under the title "Sisi to Egyptians: the State
will radically change in future", Al Anba newspaper said that president
Sisi stressed keenness on adopting digitization and establishing full databases
for the entire country not only to fight corruption, but also to help the
citizens and make their lives easier.
He reassured the Egyptians that all their personal
data are being dealt with as strictly classified, the newspaper added.
President Sisi said "through having complete
databases decision-makers can get correct information that can help them detect
and address any deficiencies and shortcomings, such as for instance a lower
health growth rate in one village compared to its neighbors.
Al Jarida newspaper published an article titled
"Sisi reveals project to establish electronic brain for state".
The article quoted president Sisi as saying: "a
highly-secured server was placed somewhere at a depth of 14 meters, grouping
all databases serving the Egyptian state in the coming years."
The president noted that nearly 50,000 persons have
been randomly chosen to get training courses on data circulation, adding that
those employees will be ready for work at ministries when they are relocated to
the New Administrative Capital in mid-2020, the article added.
Titled "Sisi: Databases of Egyptian national
security", an article published by An Nahar newspaper quoted the president
as saying: "Eventually and once we have databases that are complete,
well-organized and precise, we can be able to follow up everything in
Egypt." Not just to fight corruption but also to help the people and make
their lives easier.
President Sisi stressed that the database project is
a matter of national security. "We should never remain prisoners of the
past," he added.
