The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) in collaboration with the Radio and Television Institute (RTI) of Egypt’s National Media Authority are together conducting a specialised training session on how to protect Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), Digital Signature and cybercrime for media professionals.
The training session is held under the auspices of Hussein Zain, Head of the National Media Authority, and Amr Mahfouz, ITIDA’s CEO and Assistant Minister for Growth and Development at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT).
Dr Khaled Fathallah, the Director of the Radio and Television Institute (RTI), and Engineer Mahfouz opened the training session, in the presence of Ahmed Abdel Ghani, Acting Manager of the IPR Office. The session was attended by more than 40 media figures, CEOs, and experts from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) and the European Union (EU), in addition to lecturers and Civil Code Professors.
For his part, Engineer Amr Mahfouz said: “We are pleased to co-operate with the National Media Authority to raise awareness on intellectual property rights for media professionals, believing in their pivotal role in transferring and spreading knowledge”. Mahfouz stressed that the Media bears a social responsibility to raise public awareness on how to abide by copyright law and to protect intellectual creativity.
He added: “Global tech companies were once just an innovative idea protected by its owner, now they yield returns that their value exceeds the budgets of some countries”.
ITIDA pays great attention to intellectual property protection in the IT sector in addition to its role in innovation and technology startups, due to its role in driving economic growth and attracting investments. ITIDA expects in this regard that Egyptian startups will attract $250 million worth of investments in 2021.
The training programme, held over two days, included a series of technical lectures on intellectual property in the new media world, how to extract digital forensics in intellectual property lawsuits; copyrights and related issues; piracy of encrypted digital content; trademarks, industry models, and technical standards for a standing legal title of a digital signature.
