With more than 14,000 official civil society organizations (CSOs) working in diverse aspects of social life , Egypt’s CSO sector is active and far reaching. Despite this proliferation of CSOs Egypt does not have an active grass roots presence in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) field. The absence of a strong CSO presence in ICT is mainly due to the lack of early availability of Internet connection through Egyptian academia, semi-governmental bodies.
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