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ICT Summit 2009 – one more step towards the formation of information society
National Summit on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) – ICT Summit 2009 – one of the most striking events of ICT Week – InfoCom 2009 was held on 22 September at the International Business Center in Tashkent.

From year to year, ICT Summit, being one of the most important events in ICT sphere in Uzbekistan, attracts more and more attention of national ICT specialists, as well as international experts from around the world.

Annually nearly 400 delegates – leading experts of ICT market, representatives of governmental authorities, public and international organizations, managers and specialists of domestic and foreign IT companies - are participating in the National Summit on ICT.

This year's ICT Summit is not an exception: around 500 delegates from such countries as Germany, Belgium, India, Kazakhstan, Korea, Russia, USA, Tajikistan and the Czech Republic participated in the event. The organization of ICT Summit attracted attention of government agencies, business entities of Uzbekistan, and specialized organizations.

It is well known that a necessary element required for wide-scale transformation towards information society is an active introduction of ICTs into operation of government agencies, which can substantially improve effectiveness of administrative work, ensure management transparency, increase interaction between government and citizens, government and business.

This task is especially important as it contributes to strengthening the fundamentals of civil society and democracy. The successful implementation of this strategic task, however, requires reinforcement and consolidation of efforts of all government and non-government organizations.

National ICT Summit serves exactly for this purpose, creating an original platform for specialists, government agencies and international organizations to analyze the state of ICT market and familiarize themselves with the new achievements made in this field.

According to participants' opinions, ICT Summit has turned into an annual professional meeting and it gives colleagues a chance to discuss the recent developments, exchange with practical knowledge and obtain information about latest experience. More than 50 speakers made presentations on the current state of ICT market in Uzbekistan and around the world, and shared with new achievements in this sphere.

This year the format of ICT Summit differs from previous years. Unlike previous years, this year ICT Summit was held as one-day event. However, continuing a tradition, it opens the ICT Week with its work in the plenary and working sessions. It concludes its work with the recommendations in the form of a Resolution.

This year National ICT Summit celebrates its seventh anniversary and creates favorable conditions for demonstration of new tendencies, achievements and benefits of ICT implementation in different spheres of life, as well as discussion of prospects and familiarization with professional views on the issues of ICT development, expansion of partners' range and joint determination of solutions of tasks emerging during extensive realization of ICT potential and rapid development of ICT as a sector itself.

The following are some of the issues and tasks discussed during the ICT Summit: directions of further improvement of legislation in the ICT field, trends in development of national telecommunication network of Uzbektelecom company, standards of information security in NGN, development prospects of National .UZ domain, state information policy and information and library institutions, information security in biometric passport system, challenges in automation of library operations, digital television broadcasting as means for providing wide scale public access to ICT, prospects of mobile network and broadband development.

Some of the topics presented by international experts include: "E-government and eGON on the example of the Czech Republic, "Using e-governance to reach marginalized and remote populations and bring them public information and services" and other topics.

ICT Summit 2009 was supported by MICROSOFT Corporation and Inline Telecom Solutions as Gold Sponsors, by NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORK and E-PAY Payment Systems as Silver Sponsors, by Softline International as Premium Sponsor, and by SARKOR-TELECOM as Technical Sponsor.
23.09.2009