Egypt to strengthen ties with India at Nasscom's Leadership Forum 2009

The Forum has long been India's premier global meeting for the IT-BPO industry and this year sees Egypt's Information Technology Development Agency (ITIDA) as a platinum sponsor.

Egypt will be strongly represented through its own country session and will have a delegation of both multinational and local Egyptian outsourcing companies, including Xceed, Vodafone, Teleperformance and Raya, on-hand to demonstrate Egypt's strong position as a global service delivery location and a leading partner of India's outsourcing industry.

Mr. Amin Khaireldin, Strategic Advisor and Board Member of ITIDA, along with other delegates from ITIDA, will be speaking at the Nasscom Leadership Forum on the emerging importance of Egypt in the global outsourcing market.

Commenting on the benefits of Egypt as a global service delivery location, Mr. Amin Khaireldin said:

"Egypt is well placed to be the next location for geographical expansion for Indian outsourcing companies and we are proud to be associated with Nasscom. Egypt's competitive advantages position the country as a strategic location for global ITES/BPO and as an ideal gateway especially to Middle Eastern and European continental markets, which remain largely untapped."

Currently Indian direct investment in Egypt totals $800m in more than 200 Egyptian companies and with its relatively large and burgeoning talent pool of IT professionals, the Egyptian outsourcing sector has received strong support from its government to develop the industry further. It is projected that the Egyptian outsourcing sector will generate revenue of more than $1bn by 2010, four times the 2005 revenue.

Last year, ITIDA signed a number of Memorandum of Understandings and Letter of Intents with Indian bodies and companies including Nasscom and three of India's top five IT/BPO companies to extend the collaboration between Egypt and India.

Egypt has been making huge strides in the world of outsourcing and according to Yankee Group "Egypt is by far the Middle Eastern country currently best positioned to take advantage of the boom in outsourcing. It has a relatively young population, a multilingual workforce, a large and burgeoning talent pool and strong government support for outsourcing."

Egypt was also named the Offshoring Destination of the Year (2008) by the UK's National Outsourcing Association (NOA) and was recently listed in Gartner's Top 30 global outsourcing destinations.