GROWING ICT SECTOR EMPLOYMENT


Dr. Tony Murphy takes his experience helping develop Ireland from an agricultural-driven economy into a world leader in IT and applies the same principles to the Arab region. Ireland, a country of only 3.5 million people, is the second largest software exporter in the world, sells half of all PCs sold in Europe and is the European base to Dell, Lotus, Intel, AOL, IBM and EMC. By addressing the specific challenges within the Arab region-including what he coins the "Mr. 10 percent syndrome," the slow bureaucratic process, aversion to teamwork and unchallenged authority figures-and speaking to the opportunities-including the large scale Arabisation of software and the Internet being undertaken locally and in European and the fast rate the local ICT sector has been growing-Dr. Murphy will address how the Arab region can emerge as a successful and prosperous knowledge economy in only a short time.


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