Fixed broadband Internet is vital for all citizens. It gives citizens the opportunity to receive better training, education and employment opportunities.

MCIT aims to develop services and facilities for all the 4,500 Egyptian villages, including government buildings, homes, hospitals, schools, service centers and others. The number of beneficiaries reaches more than 58 million citizens in more than three million households. The buildings in these villages will be connected using a fiber-optic network within three years.

During the first phase of this mega project of the "Decent Life" initiative, a network of fiber-optic cables will be installed, aiming to connect 1,400 villages, including one million buildings within one year. In the next phases, the project will cover the entire target villages.

MCIT also seeks, within this initiative, to provide the necessary infrastructure for enhancing mobile phone services (Internet or mobile phone voice services). To that end, MCIT has launched the mobile towers project, to cover all targeted areas by mobile phone services. A huge number of mobile towers are being built in the targeted villages and areas to improve communications and Internet services. This project also provides a promising investment opportunity to establish and manufacture these mobile towers in these areas.

The infrastructure sharing model is adopted, thus service providers can share the towers, which reduces the investment costs and improves the level of service.

MCIT is currently working to develop about 1,000 Post offices in the targeted villages, while equipping all these offices with Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) to allow citizens receiving their cash. These developed post offices aim to improve the level of services provided to citizens and act as outlets through which electronic government services can be provided. Post offices are being equipped with the latest systems and advanced solutions, thus citizens can receive government services and all other financial and postal services provided by Egypt Post, in a timely manner.

MCIT is adopting the "Digital Literacy" campaign within the framework of the "Decent Life" initiative, as part of the efforts MCIT exerts to promote digital inclusion and digital literacy and to build and develop the capabilities of Egyptian citizens.

MCIT also holds educational sessions on capacity building and digital literacy for citizens of all social groups in the targeted villages. The sessions target promoting digital literacy, enhancing financial inclusion and raising people’s awareness of the digital public services available through different government channels, in areas including health, education, food subsidy and utilities, as well as of those available through Digital Egypt platform. In addition, the sessions aim at qualifying people to have access to and utilize those services.

MCIT has also cooperated with the Ministry of Local Development to provide job opportunities for young people, including a number of initiatives such as “Your Work in Your Village”, “Freelancing and Remote Work”, and “Future Work is Digital (Egypt FWD)” to be implemented within the "Decent Life" initiative. The cooperation aims to equip young people, in the targeted villages, to join the freelancing and remote work market inside and outside Egypt, and provide them with job opportunities in ICT companies, thus providing a monthly income and a decent life.

This in addition to supporting (MSMEs) through the Local Development Fund and Mashrou3ak program, where part of that funding can be provided to support projects related to communications and information technology, thus helping in providing direct and indirect job opportunities.