POERUP_EGYPT

 

 


 

|  As Egypt has a strong ICT backbone, it seeks to

           * broaden the on-the-go access to drive internet uptake in all walks of life.

         * improve the education system by increasing access in early childhood to care and education and by including ICT at all levels of education, especially at the tertiary level.

 

         * embrace Open Access (OA) initiatives and establish a positive response towards Open Access among the different stakeholders and many institutional repositories.

 

         * archive digitaly to render library services throughout Egypt and the Arab World.

         * offer e-learning opportunities through universities and create (DAR), Digital Assets Repositories:

 

 http://www.opendoar.org/find.php?cID=64&title=Egypt

 

         * open ICT projects to improve educational facilities: Smart Schools (labs & library).

         * improve teaching and learning methods using computers as a means to learn school subjects.

         * foster creativity, intellectual property (IP)-respect, sharing and collaboration. 

         * provide distance-training national net (video conference).

    

         * Provide ICT services in a manner which meets the educational objectives in schools and the society around them.

         * Outreach to students in the disadvantaged areas.


http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/portals-and-platforms/goap/access-by-region/arab-states/egypt/

 

 

 

|  To focus on Quality Assurance & Accreditation:

     * several university web sites are reviewed in order to ascertain whether they have ICT and e-learning policies or whether they offer an e-learning component and regularly update the e-learning strategy:

 

http://www.eelu.edu.eg/

 

http://www.virtualcampuses.eu/index.php/Egyptian_e-Learning_University

 

     * the Supreme Council of Universities (SCU) and the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education-Egypt (NAQAAE) created in 2004 has mandate over 26 public and private HEIs for QA and accreditation.

 

     * with the help of the World Bank, Ministry of Higher Education in Egypt initiated a Quality Assurance and Accreditation Project (QAAP) to support the reform process in HE.

 

            

 

            * the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BA), the centre for knowledge dissemination & its Access to Knowledge (A2K) initiative, is the most active community for Creative Commons in Egypt and its licenses use as a tool to promote IPR, sharing and collaboration in many areas and among many groups: formal/informal education, research institutions & researchers, arts, publishing, online/print publishers, young artists, and school/university students: CC Egypt website, FB group, CC Salon, School/universities workshops, feedback from online surveys and polls, and frequent newsletter.            

 

 

             * to claim copyright for resources, HindawiPublishing Corporation has been distributing all its articles in the OA journals under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which is unrestrictive in use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, once the user cites the original work properly. Peer review is used to decide which articles should be published in the journals.

  

             * users normally identify metadata to facilitate their search for open access articles and ensure relevance.

  

          * most websites use internal quality checks, and refer to the number of the downloads for each resource on the website.

  

        * users rate or comment on the resource they use. 

 
Happy OA, DAR, CC, IPR & QA