Major General Hisham Amna, Minister of Local Development, participated today in the second workshop between the Egyptian government and the United Nations on technology and innovation, organized by the Ministry of International Cooperation, in the presence of Dr. Rania Al-Mashat, Minister of International Cooperation, and Lieutenant General Engineer Kamel Al-Wazir, Minister of Transport, Deputy Minister of Communications and Information Technology, and a number of... A number of gentlemen parties from the government and the private sector, and Ms. Elena Panova, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Egypt.
Major General Hisham Amna pointed out the interest of the Ministry of Local Development in using technology and promoting innovation, as in recent years it launched the “Hands of Egypt” platform, with technical support from the World Food Program, to provide support for locally produced products in the electronic marketing of craft and handmade products that characterize Egyptian villages, and to train producers on Craft production.
Pointing out that the Ministry has adopted the proposal of the two projects submitted, which are a project to establish an electronic platform to promote rural tourism to promote rural tourism opportunities in Egyptian villages on the map of local and global tourism.
The Minister of Local Development said that the second project is to create an electronic platform for integrated development aimed at coordinating and directing development efforts.
