Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade Geo-Spatial Platform
Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade - Egypt
Business Needs
Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade Geo-Spatial Platform (Egyptian MSGP), was designed to support the Egyptian Government achieve its sustainable development goals, with a focus on food security theme, fair nutritional resources distribution, and well-managed grain silos.
The geo-empowerment needs emerged from MSIT's desire to
• Support their decision-making process by acquiring tools to help them link supply with demand across Egypt,
• Identify locations that may be considered "Food Deserts " and ensure that residents in these areas have access to food suppliers in support of the Egyptian Sustainable development objectives.
• Tighten MSIT's supervision on food supplier and identify violation hot spots
• Reach out the public and enhance their accessibility to services supported by MSIT

Golden Points
- The Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade Geo-Spatial Platform (Egyptian MSGP) has many aspects of success and excellence, as well as lessons learned to disseminate and replicate to benefit other countries, in particular:
- Platform sustainability: The platform was built with a special focus on capacity building, knowledge transfer to MSIT Staff to ensure they are empowered to continue operating and updating the platform with the necessary content.
- Unification of resources: The platform provided a centralized geo-enabled repository, which hosts the different datasets pertaining to food security and nutrition, thus empowering a one-stop shop portal, which hosts supply and demand data, with an easy to use and intuitive web GIS functionality for searching, discovering and analysis.
- Enhanced decision support: Having a unified platform for food security helps decision makers access accurate data in a timely manner, thus supporting the decision-making process and enabling fast response. Moreover, maintaining the content within the platform helps with the creation of historical data, which will eventually support trends analysis and prediction.
Used Software
- ArcGIS Enterprise
- ArcGIS Server
- ArcGIS Pro tools
- Portal for ArcGIS
- ArcGIS for Desktop
- ArcGIS Web Adaptor
- Microsoft SQL Server 2016
- Microsoft Windows 2012 Server
- Oracle enterprise edition
- Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS