Education Minister Hilaly el Sherbiny met with Microsoft Egypt General Manager Khaled Abd El-Kader to discuss means of cooperation between the Ministry and Microsoft in the field of using technology in education.
In a statement, the Education Ministry said that the meeting reviewed the existing projects between the Ministry and Microsoft, including the production of interactive programs and improving the professional development of teachers.
Microsoft established a branch in Egypt in 1995 as an office representative, becoming a limited liability company in 1997. Microsoft launched the Cairo Microsoft Innovation Center in September, 2007. It is located in the Smart Village near Cairo. Its mission is to work on concept-level research problems that are relatively short to market. It is headed by Tarek El-Abbadi, a long time Program Manager at the Microsoft Redmond office.
