EiTESAL was born in 1997 as a non-government organization and was initially named “The Egyptian High Tech. Association”, EHITA. The first founding General Assembly was held in Thebes Hall in Semiramis intercontinental hotel on November 1997. For the following 6 years, we strive to survive and deliver services to our community. However, despite all of our efforts, we remained limited in volume and resources.

In 2004 another small tech NGO called ESA decided to join forces and merge with EHITA to form the first private non-profit civil organization NGO working on developing the ICT sector. The new foundation took the name “EiTESAL” representing the whole ICT industry in Egypt. EiTESAL started with 43 members, our membership has grown to reach 390 members in year 2014.

EiTESAL became a member of the World Innovation, Technology, and Services Association. We organized the first international GPPC conference in the MENA region in 2007.

With our position in the Egyptian ICT community getting more profound, we started to expand to Africa and formed the African ICT Association together with other 6 African nations. Five other countries joined the AF ICTA later.

Since EiTESAL became a distinctive one-of-a-kind NGO, we associated with three other smaller NGOs with the same goal located in Assuit, Mansoura, and Alexandria to extend our services to the rural areas outside Cairo.

EiTESAL joined forces with 4 Universities, 8 ICT companies, 6 innovation progression companies, and one investment company to form the first technology cluster in Egypt. “Borg Al Arab Innovation Cluster” was set within Silicon Waha’s technology park to enable innovation and entrepreneurship in ICT in the fields of IoT, Smart Cities, and Robotics by creating an ecosystem that helps create new job opportunities and provides accumulated experiences in the northern part of Egypt.