3 - Strategic Objectives and Quantitative Targets 3.2 Quantitative Targets First: ICT Sector Development Second: The National Broadband Strategy Table 3.1: Quantitative Targets in ICT Sector Development Table 3.2: Quantitative Targets of the National Broadband Strategy Aims Area Activities / Indicators Linking 10% of telephone exchanges with fiber-optic cables Table 3.1: Quantitative Targets in ICT Sector Development Legislative amendments (Labor law, Telecom Law, Freedom of Information law) Linking all schools and educational institutions to Broadband Promoting use of e-signature applications in government agencies to provide government-togovernment (G2G) and government-to-citizen (G2C) services Promoting sustainable development Increasing the volume of e-commerce by 20% Increasing the proportion of banking customers using online or mobile banking to 30% Building a knowledge-based society in the Nile Basin region Establishing a regional training center for the Nile Basin countries and Central Africa Digitizing primary-level educational materials by 2015 Conducting an assessment of the size of e-waste in Greater Cairo as a step towards establishing a sustainable model for e-waste management Achieving ICT sector growth rates of 710%- over the next five years Increasing the ICT sector’s contribution to GDP to 5%, and boosting annual exports of outsourced IT services to $2.5 billion and intellectual property revenues to $1 billion Increasing investment by 20% to LE 55 billion Strengthening the national economy Increasing savings held with Egypt Post by an annual average of 15% Increasing the number of outsourcing professionals, to create 75,000 job opportunities, and 30,000 in IT and 10,000 in the field of innovation Establishing a national network of 20 technology parks Increasing the number of secured Egyptian websites by 810%Increasing exports of software and embedded software to $500 million within two years 28 29 targets Penetration Mobile Maintaining a national network of 2,000 IT Clubs Long-term Aims (2021) 75% of households have access to 90% of households have access to Broadband (2 Mbps) Broadband (25 Mbps) 98% of population with 3G coverage 90% of population with 4G/LTE coverage 4.5 million (22%) households subscribed to 9 million (40%) households subscribed to broadband services broadband services 8 million (10%) citizens subscribed to 14 million (15%) citizens subscribed to mobile broadband services mobile broadband services 50% of public service authorities connected 100% to the internet at 25 Mbps connected to the internet at 25 Mbps 50% of third-level Egyptian administrative All localities (Sheyakha and village) served by localities served (Sheyakha and village) by at least one public internet access point at at least one public internet access point at 25 Mbps 25 Mbps Availability Fixed information society Increasing the number of Technology Homes across Egypt to 1,000 targets Mobile citizenship and Table 3.2: Quantitative Targets of the National Broadband Strategy Promoting digital Fixed Increasing the number of subscribers to Broadband to 13 million by 2015 Increasing the proportion of households with personal computers to 40% over the next five years Short-term Aims (2015) Social/national targets of public third-level service Egyptian authorities administrative