Tashkent, Uzbekistan (UzDaily.com) -- The latest roundtable within Uzbekistan Economic Forum was on "Infrastructure Development: Unleashing Potential", which is of particular importance given Uzbekistan’s active efforts to modernize and expand existing infrastructure, including stabilizing energy supplies, investing in transport and telecommunications.

The event brought together the Minister of Transport Ilkhom Makhkamov, Deputy Minister of Finance Odilbek Isakov, Deputy Director for Eurasian Infrastructure of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Alexander Rogachevsky, Senior Investment Specialist of the Asian Development Bank Ksenia Rogan and a number of other experts.

Participants explore lessons learned, projects and goals for the next five years, potential opportunities and challenges. Particular attention is paid to how private sector investments in domestic infrastructure can complement the already ongoing projects of international partners.

Experts exchanged views on the stable supply of electricity and gas resources to the population and enterprises, expanding passenger and cargo capacities and reducing costs in landlocked countries, expanding the data exchange system and enhancing the role of telecommunications infrastructure in the information age, ensuring the free flow of production factors and reducing costs.

In addition, in the transport sector, the expansion of opportunities for foreign trade through the development of "green corridors" and transit potential, the transition from the model of state capitalism to a model of economic growth with the leadership of the private sector, the demand for modern technologies, IT, distance entrepreneurship and digital activities in as part of the introduction of new economic drivers, mechanisms for the efficient use of production resources and the introduction of intensive technologies that are being introduced into management.