Egypt is Top Priority for Africa’s Tech Industry Growth – Isys Uganda
The African countries are keen to witness greater Egyptian technological presence, said Ali Jjunju of Uganda’s General Manager of Isys Electronic Payment Services.
He further described Egyptian technology firms’ plans to expand into the African markets as ‘good step’ towards boosting bilateral cooperation with each African state and accordingly raising the awareness of this vital sector in the continent.
The growth currently witnessed by Africa in depending on technological tools makes the continent a promising and tempting soil for the Egyptian companies to expand, he noted.
Jjunju further stated that Egypt is one of the most welcome countries to invest in the African continent.
The “Isys” group, one of the largest companies providing electronic services via smartphones and tablets, and the fastest-growing company in Middle East and North Africa region, has participated for the first time in the Cairo ICT 2014 in its eighteenth session which was recently held on November 4-7.
Commenting on the Group’s participation in the Cairo ICT exhibition this year, “engineer Mohamed Al-Rashedy”, group’s founder and CEO, confirmed that “Isys’ has decided to participate in the Egyptian’s exhibition which is specialized in the telecommunications and information technology sector, in accordance with the company’s strategy in the Egyptian market and the Middle East region to expand its business in the region where the company expects to increase its business and its customers over the next few months”.
During the exhibition’s events, Isys has launched the application system Payit, which is one of the programs based on electronic cash payment services on smart phones and tablet.
The “Isys” Company has begun its work since 2005 in Kuwait; where it was entitled by the Kuwaiti telecommunication group “Zen” to be one of its key partners, after the company has provided its first services of chat programs, SMS and other interactive services.
In 2006, the “Isys” company expanded in its activities to begin its launch to several countries, as it has begun its activities in Sudan with the company “Mobitel” to provide “medical” services in the form of short medical text messages as well as providing support to the Agence France-Presse “AFP” in France in many magazines including newsletters. Moreover, the company’s activity has also extended from 2007 till 2013 to many countries and it has 12 offices such as its office in Bahrain, Egypt, Uganda, Kenya, South Sudan, Palestine, Jordan, Nigeria, Libya and the United States.
