Using Professional Social Networking as an Innovative Method for Data Extraction: The ICT Alumni Index Case Study

نویسندگان

  • Rasha Y. Tantawy
  • Ziad Farouk
  • Shereen Mohamed
  • Ahmed H. Yousef
چکیده

The lack of data regarding Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector alumni data is a known problem in several countries including Egypt. It is not clear what entry and senior jobs are occupied by alumni and which countries are attract them. This affects the planning, design and execution of both the ICT sector and the Education sector. In this research, a joint team is formulated from the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (TIEC) and the Ministry of Higher Education. This team is undertaking extensive analysis of the structure, distribution and development of the ICT skills and employment. Social Networking sites (SNS) have proved to have impact on users’ lives. Famous SNS like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn affects the communication between humans. They are effective tools in gathering information and knowledge. This study aims to show the impact of SNS in discovering the relation between the Egyptian Universities’ Graduates and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) job Market inside and outside Egypt. This research used professional social networks as a source of a significant sample of the required data. The assumption is verified with the statistics collected from the supreme Council of Universities and the Central Agency of Public Mobilization And Statistics (CAPMAS). The results showed that social network can be used as a reliable information source for alumni data. It shows also that reliability increases dramatically with city of residence.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • CoRR

دوره abs/1410.1348  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014