The Minister of ICT meets with the UN Under-Secretary-General - Head of the UN DESA
21/06/2022 15:42
The Minister of ICT meets with the UN Under-Secretary-General - Head of the UN DESA
21/06/2022 15:42
Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- On 20 June, the Minister of ICT Sherzod Shermatov visited the United States of America to expand cooperation with the United States in the field of ICT, further develop cooperation with leading IT companies, and establish cooperation with new companies.
The main purpose of the visit is to implement the instructions of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to the Ministry for the Development of Information Technologies and Communications to transform Uzbekistan into a regional IT hub, which were announced at a meeting to discuss the results and current tasks in the field of information technology.
On the first day of the visit, Minister of ICT Sherzod Shermatov met with the UN Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs Liu Zhenming.
During the meeting, UN Deputy Secretary General - Head of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) Liu Zhenming spoke about the work aimed at the development of ICT in our country, as well as the activities of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyaev in this area and noted the high level large-scale positive changes carried out under his leadership.
At the same time, it was noted that as a result of the prudent policy pursued by the Head of State, the quality of public services has improved in the country, human capital in the field of ICT is being strengthened, and special attention is paid to ongoing work towards the development of telecommunications infrastructure.
In particular, he noted that Uzbekistan occupies high positions in a number of world rankings, and as a result of the work carried out in the future, Uzbekistan will become a major IT hub in the region.
At the same time, Minister of ICT Sherzod Shermatov dwelled on the work done to take high positions in the E-government Development Index, which is published every 2 years by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Also during the meeting, attention was paid to the issues of strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation.
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