{"id":2811,"date":"2024-03-27T15:28:27","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T15:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/?page_id=2811"},"modified":"2025-08-20T09:02:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:02:17","slug":"dt-bio-abdel-monem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/cities\/standards4dt\/dt-bio-abdel-monem\/","title":{"rendered":"AbdEl-Monem"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AbdEl-Monem El-Sharkawy
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Assoc. Prof. AbdEl-Monem El-Sharkawy is\u00a0the chairman of the National Academy of Information Technology for Persons with Disabilities (NAID) at the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT). Dr. El-Sharkawy\u00a0is also an associate professor at the Systems and Biomedical Engineering (SBME) department, Cairo university. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in SBME, from Cairo University, Egypt. He also received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer engineering from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), MD, USA. Dr. El-Sharkawy is an established\u00a0scientist\u00a0co-authoring tens of peer reviewed scientific journal papers, conference presentations and articles\u00a0as well as three US published patents. Dr. El-Sharkawy instituted NAID’s excellence centre\u00a0of assistive technology\u00a0(ECAT) to support research, development and entrepreneurship in this domain towards\u00a0enabling\u00a0the assistive technology industry in Egypt.\u00a0Dr. El-Sharkawy has around 25 years of experience in technology spanning academia, industry, and relevant managerial positions<\/p>\n<\/div><\/blockquote>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n

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National Academy of Information Technology for Persons with Disabilities, Egypt<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>

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