An MoU has been signed between National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), an autonomous scientific society under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology of the Republic of India and Information Technology Institute (ITI) affiliated by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology of the Arab Republic of Egypt.
The MoU was signed on March 12, in Cairo, Egypt, in the presence of Dr. Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Arab Republic of Egypt and Ajit Gupte, Ambassador of India, Arab Republic of Egypt. The aim of the MoU is to foster mutual collaboration for improving workforce skills, promoting employment opportunities, addressing skills gaps, and fostering international cooperation.
The signatories were Dr. M. M. Tripathi, Director General, NIELIT, and Dr. Heba Saleh, Chairwoman, ITI, Egypt. The MoU intends to promote cooperation and collaboration in the IECT domain.
The broad areas of collaboration includes curriculum and training materials development, exchange of trainers and experts, mutual recognition of certification, sharing of virtual labs facility, offering of post graduate (PG) diplomas and technical certificates to interns nominated by ITI Egypt, and offering of B.Tech and M.Tech programs to Egyptian students.
The Egyptian students will also have access to the free digital literacy flagship course through NIELIT Virtual Academy.
