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he Government of Egypt has
T announced that it is setting up a specialised digital forensic lab for intellectual property as part of its enforcement schemes of combating software piracy . The new lab , the first of its kind in the MENA region , is mainly designed to resolve business software and internetbased piracy cases . It authentically recovers data from digital devices and unearths new fraud techniques .
The latest measures applied aim to enhance the investigative capabilities and ease the digital forensic evidence acquisition , analysis and reporting .
The cutting-edge techniques and latest technologies employed in the lab devise a roadmap for judges , prosecutors and lawyers . The practiced procedures enable them to distinguish the
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counterfeit products from the genuine and manage the intellectual property and digital piracy issues at hand .
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency ( ITIDA ), which develops the IT industry in Egypt , hosts the lab at its premises . The agency is the executive IT arm of the Egyptian ICT ministry to enforce IPR related to software products and databases .
“ Over the last couple of years , ITIDA ’ s IPR office has undertaken comprehensive actions to increase IP enforcement with all the stakeholders like the economic courts i . e judges and prosecutors , police officers and copyright owners ,” said Dr Mohamed Hegazy , Egypt ’ s IPR Office Manager .
Aiming at developing the necessary skills , the fully dedicated IPR office has delivered extensive training and
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According to the latest BSA-IDC Global Software Piracy Study in 2016 , the Egyptian piracy rate reached 61 %, a ratio lower than most competing countries and leading global outsourcing locations including Morocco ( 65 %), the Philippines ( 67 %) and Vietnam ( 78 %).
The cabinet is preparing a data protection and privacy law draft . It has already agreed on cyber-crime law and awaits parliament ’ s approval to be enacted , according to Egypt ’ s state media .
With the sustained momentum that Egypt is gaining in the area of technological innovation and the maturity of its start-ups , the Ministry of ICT put its free and open software strategy into action in 2016 .
The newly adopted policy represents a paradigm shift in intellectual property rules as it provides an alternate software-licensing model while developing a healthy eco-system for software production and innovation . u
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