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 former 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

• GIS Professional Training, Egypt's Experience, Kuwait 1st International GIS Conference, Kuwait 5-7 Feb., 2005.
• ITI Experience Towards E-Learning, 3rd Conference on E-Learning Applications, AUC, Cairo, 15-16 Jan., 2005.
• Distant Learning, ITI Experience, Using the IT & Telecommunication in E-Education (with focus on the Arabic content on the Internet), Regional Seminar, Damascus, Syria, and 15-17 Jul., 2003.
• Distant Learning, Will it Become the First Discipline? OICC 7th Seminar on GIS applications in Planning and Sustainable Development, Cairo Egypt, 13-15 Feb., 2001.
• Adaptive Intelligent Agent, a Design Approach for a Decision Support System, Scientific Bulletin, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, No. 01/31, 31/3/1996.
• Computer Network Security, Technology and Armament Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 3, July 1990.
• Computer Virus, Assigned Research by His Excellency the Egyptian Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, January 1990

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