The Education Ministry is in talks with Samsung to have the latter manufacture tablets for schools, ICT Minister Amr Talaat said, Amwal Al Ghad reports. The Education Ministry had contracted Samsung last month to supply 1 mn educational tables for the 2018-19 academic year for USD 240 mn. Education Minister Tarek Shawky had previously said that the ICT and military production ministries would locally produce the first batch of tablets for EGP 2.5-3 bn.
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