The Mobile App Launchpad Program (MAL) celebrated on Tuesday the graduation of the last cohort (cohort E) of mobile application developers and honoured three groups for their mobile innovation and entrepreneurship with cash prizes. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and Google have partnered to launch the MAL, a collaboration to help Egypt’s talent pool excel in mobile app innovation and entrepreneurship. MAL targets fresh graduates and university students in order to advance their academic knowledge through practical experience to design and launch their own mobile applications. Following the ceremony, Head of Marketing for Google in the MENA region Tarek Abdallah said that Google has two main missions in the Middle East region. The first one is to advance entrepreneurship in the field of technology. The second one is to build a wide and strong base in Egypt for those who develop Android applications. Abdullah said that Egypt was chosen because it has the biggest market of internet users in the Middle East. Also, it is one of the top countries with the highest numbers of engineering graduates and information technology specialists. “There are about 50,000 new graduates…
Egypt Students Have High Potential in Mobile App Innovation: Google Official
March 29, 2017
