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Cairo court rules to block porn sites

By Ben Morales-Correa

A Cairo court issued a ruling on Tuesday calling on the Communication and Information Technology ministry to ban foreign pornographic websites, on account of being “offensive to our religion, honour and manners,” Nizar Ghorab, who filed the suit on his own initiative, told AFP. “Freedoms and public rights are not absolute, they are limited by... »

Egypt: Land of Pyramids, the Sphinx…and Outsourcing?

By Ben Morales-Correa

Image via Wikipedia India’s tech boom has inspired other developing nations to promote themselves as outsourcing destinations. The latest to try to cash in: Egypt. Tarek El-Sadany, a government official in charge of helping to grow the country’s information-technology industry, says that the country is well positioned to do these tasks—literally. Egypt is only two hours... »

Egypt awarded Outsourcing Destination of the Year at the 2008 National Outsourcing Association Awards

By Ben Morales-Correa

Egypt was awarded the prestigious title of Outsourcing Destination of the Year at the National Outsourcing Association’s 2008 Awards held in London, beating rivals Philippines and Romania to the accolade. The CEO of Egypt’s Information Technology Industry Development Agency, (ITIDA) Dr. Hazem Abdelazim, received the award on behalf of his government during a glamorous... »