ICTs for Development:

1. Developing ICT skills to improve personal and livelihood options is a vital step towards self-reliability in an environment where poverty is handed down from generation to generation.
2. To have the biggest developmental impact ICTs have to be taught to children at schools. ArabDev is targeting poor school children in deprived areas to teach them how to use information technology to improve their present and their future.
3. Girls and women are commonly the most disadvantaged segments of the society, with strict limitations on movement and reach out. ICTs are an ideal tool for females to be able to surpass their geographic limitations and participate in the workforce through the outreach capacities of the new communication technologies.
4. Increasing rates of unemployment among educated youths is undermining societal and individual efforts for self-sustainability through earned income. By learning new ICT skills youths might be able to find revenue earning opportunities.
5. There are a lot of successful community development initiatives in Egypt and the Arab world that can help NGOs, CBOs, communities and individuals in their quest for a better life – ICTs enable the ease of transmitting some of these inititatives so that the public can have access to this information from any Internet terminal.