The TIEC, of the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA), announced in a
live broadcast on TIEC social media pages the winners of IbTIECar 2019.
IbTIECar is an annual competition for university students’ graduation projects and held in cooperation with
multinational and local tech companies and affiliate bodies of the Ministry of Communications and Information
Technology.
The competition honors this year’s outstanding graduation projects of senior students enrolled in ICT faculties
where 15 projects from 11 universities, won IbTIECar awards in various trending tech fields, with total prizes
amounting to 180,000 L.E.
The winners are also given advantage of undertaking 3-month free training in TIEC Accelerators exist in 5 different
governorates across Egypt including Giza, Alexandria, Assiut, Mansoura, and Minya, in addition to circulating their
graduation projects within the ICT community.
During the meeting, CEO of ITIDA, Hala El-Gohary confirmed that the majority of the agency's programs are geared
towards building human capital and developing digital skills to enabling young people to harness disruptive
technologies and serving the growing demand for these skills, driven by both the local and multinational tech
companies investing in Egypt.
El-Gohary added that ITIDA powers a series of initiatives that focus on fostering and stimulating tech innovation
and spreading a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship among the youth to create a generation of entrepreneurs
capable of creating innovative digital solutions that address societal challenges.
For his part, Dr. Hossam Osman, TIEC’s Director and Vice President of ITIDA, applauded the graduation projects with
creative ideas presented by the students during the competition. He praised the role and the efforts exerted by the
sponsors, both in terms of providing cash prizes or giving technical consultation to the students in the specialized
projects.
Othman explained that the center stimulates and supports the whole chain of entrepreneurship. He briefed the
students and graduates on the center’s various programs that will help them turn their ideas success stories that
have been able to attract huge investments.
The rivalry focused on eight of trending and disruptive technologies like IC design, blockchain, IoT for smart
cities, IoT for smart cities, virtual reality VR, augmented reality AR, extended reality XR, mobile apps, federated
machine learning, and distributed data, artificial intelligence, machine learning (ML), 5G networks, 5G networks,
and communications technology trends.
The sponsors of this version of the competition included Huawei, Egypt’s National Telecom Regulatory Authority, and
DELL EMC².
IbTIECar innovation competition started in 2012, bringing the total projects submitted after its eighth year in 2019
to 1,114 advanced ideas, 881 advanced projects, and 170 winning projects/teams with total financial awards of
1,230,000 Egyptian pounds.
