At a recent Information technology competition, Egypt ranked 40th internationally, the Egyptian Arabic daily al-Wafd reported Tuesday. Al-Wafd is the newspaper of the political party of the same name. Usama Ismail, the dean of the Regional Center for Informatics, announced that Egypt ranked 40th at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) The IOI is a series of competitions related to informatics, such as designing programs and algorithms and decoding programs. Egypt earned three medals at this year's IOI. Omar Azzazi and Emad Eskandar earned silver medals, and a bronze medal was awarded to Ahmed Ezzat Salem, The competition was held in Pattaya City, Thailand. Ismail hailed the medalists, saying that the difficult conditions in Egypt and the lack of stability in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology did not hold back the students. BM
