Mohamed Abd-el-Kader Salem

Mohamed Salem
4th Minister of Communications and Information Technology
Incumbent
Assumed office
1 July 2011
Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif
Essam Sharaf
Kamal Ganzouri
Preceded by Magued Osman

Mohamed Abd-el-Kader Salem is an Egyptian academic and politician. He is minister of Communications and Information Technology in the cabinet of Dr. Essam Sharaf from 21 July 2011.[1] Starting from 2002, he was the chairman of the Information Technology Institute (ITI), and a member of the institute’s board of trustees.[2]

Education

Mohamed Salem holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in electrical engineering – computers and systems engineering from Ain Shams University, and a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the Military Technical College. Salem also serves as a board member of the Center of Computers and Information Systems of Cairo University’s Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences; a board member of the Faculty of Computers and Information Technology of October 6 University; and chairman of the International Conference of Information and Communication Technology (ICICT), the International Conference of Multimedia (Digimedia), and the Arabic Conference for Geographic Information Systems (ArabMap).[3]

Career

Salem served as vice director at ITI from July 2000 to July 2002, and as director of the institute’s Professional Training Program from July 1993 to July 2000.[4]

Salem has also served as a lecturer of computer engineering, information systems and computer science – in the areas of artificial intelligence and expert systems, software engineering, management information systems, software project management, decision support systems and electronic commerce – at ITI, Cairo University’s Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, the Arab Academy for Sciences and Technology, the International Academy for Media Science, Sixth of October University and Misr International University. As a consultant he has worked in the fields of computers and information systems, information technology and artificial intelligence applications.

During his career, Salem has participated in information and communications technology-related conferences around the world and has published material on various ICT-related fields, including geographic information systems training and distance learning.

Publications

References

  1. "EGYPT: New ministers sworn in after lengthy nomination process". Los Angeles Times. 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
  2. "Information Technology Institute". Iti.gov.eg. Retrieved 2012-03-08.
  3. "Biography". MCIT. 2011-07-21. Retrieved 2012-03-08.