Communications stresses its need for World Bank support in policy-making and training expertise

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Communications stresses its need for World Bank support in policy-making and training expertise

10/28/2020

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The information / Baghdad ...

Today, Wednesday, the Ministry of Communications affirmed its need to support the World Bank in the field of policy-making and to provide expertise and training for Iraqi engineers and technicians in the ministry in the field of electronic digital transformation.

"The ministry today held its conference with the World Bank, and through a television circle, in the presence of a representative of the World Bank in the Baghdad office, Waseem Al-Miqdadi," the ministry said in a statement received by the information.

The statement added that “the Director General of the Planning and Follow-up Department in the Ministry, Adam Al-Quraishi, deputized the minister, who in turn provided a detailed explanation of the five-year plan of the Ministry of Communications, which the Ministry intends to implement during the next five years,” stressing the ministry’s need to support the World Bank in the field of policy-making and providing expertise And training for Iraqi engineers and technicians in the Ministry of Communications in the field of electronic digital transformation.

And he indicated, according to the statement, that "the ministry does not need financial support, as the majority of the ministry’s projects are long-term investment projects."

The statement continued, “An economist in digital aspects from Washington, Jerome Pezzina and Marula Haddad, a specialist in digital infrastructure and the World Bank’s coordinator for the communications sector in Iraq, expressed the World Bank’s desire to support the Iraqi government's efforts to shift towards e-government and open prospects for joint cooperation with the Ministry of Communications, which is located. It undertakes the implementation of the government program for the electronic digital transformation of the ministries and institutions of the Iraqi state.

The statement noted that "the meeting was attended by the Director of the Directorate of Communications and Informatics Infrastructures at the General Company for Communications and Informatics, Yasser Amer."

https://www.almaalomah.com/2020/10/28/502325/