01Opening session: awareness and open debate
The President stressed that the priority in preparing the Forum was to present accurate and complete data, listen to different views and accept criticism, while emphasizing that the stability of the state is a line that cannot be crossed. He spoke about the impact of unregulated use of social media and the family's role in protecting young people's awareness.
02Human development and economic transformation
The Prime Minister explained that the state aims to make food subsidies reach recipients more efficiently, not to cut them, and defended the value of national projects in agriculture, energy and transport given population growth since 2011.
03Social protection by the numbers
The Minister of Social Solidarity also reviewed the role of digital platforms, civil-society partnerships and field visits in making sure support reaches those who are entitled to it — a clear example of how database quality has become part of social policy itself.
04The bread and ration-goods system
The Minister of Supply outlined the scale of the subsidized bread and ration-goods system and the gap, borne by the state, between the cost of a loaf and its price to citizens. The detailed figures circulating on daily loaves and beneficiaries need to be matched against the ministry's official statement before being cited.
05Digital awareness in the age of AI
Youth representatives raised the question of access to raw data for researchers and entrepreneurs, given how fast news flows on social platforms. The team behind Chat EGYPT explained that the platform's goal is to provide a public reference for verifying misleading content and deepfakes.
06The most-discussed moment: a middle-school student
In the session "What Are Our Children Learning?", a middle-school student interested in coding and AI asked why he should wait until graduation to start doing real work. He called for giving students the chance to build real projects early, because what matters is what a student can do with what they have learned, not the certificate alone.
07An economic reading
Dr. Walid Gaballah, a member of the Egyptian Society for Economics and Statistics, said the Forum's value lies in building on what has been achieved rather than starting from scratch, and that the challenge is to link citizens' input to clear performance indicators and to keep economic growth clearly ahead of population growth.
