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Techne Summit kicks off with Two New Technology Hubs Outside Cairo

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As Techne Summit starts, Mohamed Abd El Wahab,Chairman of Maadi Technology Park announced that 2 technology hubs are to built and operated by October 2016. As a start to reduced the centralization in Cairo,the next technology Hubs will be in Borg Al-Arab Alexandria and New Assiut aiming at enabling youth and researchers.

The summit was under the auspices of Engineer Yasser El Kady, Minister of Communication and Information Technology. In El Kady’s presence Abdel Wahab also talked about the environment of the hubs and the different services it provide. There will be different professional  buildings, one of them is a training center for youth that empowers them to face their challenges and others buildings such as incubators.

Techne Summit is not only an international summit for entrepreneurship and technology but also a platform for exhibiting and showing the latest, creative and innovative ideas which is the theme of the summit technology, innovation and skills.

The opening also pointed out some of the newest technology routes and its role in providing and creating job opportunities and of the top topics that will be discussed this year is Internet of things (IoT).

Before the opening came to end, the winners of Hack4Alex received their prizes. The first prize went to application Saniya’y and the second went to Argon Drones as for the third it went for Bugs. 

Each of them tried to solve a societal challenge. Saniya’y will provide labor as plumbers and carpenters etc.., Argon Drones will help find and fix buildings with cracks or buildings that are about to fall. As for Bugs it will help you reporting any problem for example if you saw hole in the street, you can take a picture upload it to the app and they are responsible for solving the problem.

At the end Engineer El Kady announced that these companies will be incubated and produced in Borg Al-Arab Technology Hub.

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