Sitemap

Continued successful cooperation between the IT Office and UNDP

CorD Recommends

Kushner Eyes Balkan Luxury Developments in Serbia and Albania

Jared Kushner, closely related to former U.S....

European Parliament Passes Groundbreaking AI Law

The European Parliament has adopted the Artificial...

European Parliament Members Endorse Western Balkan Reform and Growth Instrument

Members of the European Parliament's committees on...

US Leads Global Oil Production for the Sixth Consecutive Year

The United States has maintained its position...

Darko Lukić New Nelt Group CEO as of 1st July

With a synergy of organisational change, investment in digital transformation, and development of African markets, the Nelt Group continues...

EU Passes Landmark Media Freedom Law

The European Council has adopted a groundbreaking law aimed at safeguarding media freedom, pluralism, and editorial independence within the...

Scholz Champions Western Balkans’ Path to Membership

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, in Slovenia, advocated for quickening the EU accession for the Western Balkans, underlining the importance...

Wiener Städtische Insurance company is the winner of Dobročinitelj (Benefactor) award

The company Wiener Städtische Insurance received the Dobročinitelj (Benefactor) award for socially responsible activities implemented during 2021, 2022 and...

CEB Grants €1.3 Billion Loans to Boost Social Sectors in 11 Countries

The Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) has sanctioned loans totaling €1.3 billion for 11 member countries, including Serbia...

Director of the Office for Information Technology and Electronic Governance of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Mihailo Jovanovic, spoke with the new UNDP Resident Representative in Serbia, Francine Pickup, on the cooperation of the two institutions in the field of e-government and the ICT sector.

At the meeting, plans were discussed for further development and improvement of co-operation in these areas.

Expressing his appreciation for UNDP’s support to Serbia in all areas of digitization, Jovanovic said that the two institutions have had excellent cooperation so far, with the belief that it will be even better now.

Mihajlovic underlined that Serbia in its digitization and development of the ICT sector recognized its chance to become one of the technological leaders in the region.

Successfully implemented new eGovernment services for citizens, the economy and the state, adopted legislative and strategic frameworks, encouraging state institutions to open 500 data sets, 1,500 trained candidates in IT sector retraining programs are some of the many results that citizens recognize, he said.

The successful cooperation established between the Office for IT and UNDP will continue to work towards establishing a Regional Center for the World Economic Forum to legislate for the implementation of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning, blockchain and IoT technologies and smart cities.

Jovanovic stressed the importance of UNDP’s support to the IT Office, noting that in the coming period, the office intends to focus even more on developing new eServices that will make it easier for citizens to communicate with the public administration, as well as to develop creative industries.

He pointed out that the creative industries are very important for the prosperity of the Serbian economy, and that the share of young people in that industry is more than 60 per cent.

Francine Pickup pointed out that the IT Office is a major partner of UNDP in activities that contribute to digital transformation in Serbia.

According to her, the two institutions are working together to open data of the public institutions so that citizens and the IT community can use them to create new applications and development solutions through greater availability of quality data.

In addition, she said, it is also about creating a digital future in Serbia through retraining for the IT sector and building data storage infrastructure in the national data centre.

The meeting discussed the current project of great importance “Open Data – Open Opportunities” supported by the World Bank and the United Kingdom Good Governance Fund (GGF), which has a clear objective to contribute to the construction of an open data ecosystem in Serbia.

Also discussed were the results achieved, as well as plans for the Digital Transformation in Serbia project, funded by the Government of Serbia and the United Kingdom through the Good Governance Fund, implemented by UNDP.

Related Articles

Minister Jovanović Earns Reformer of the Year for Leading Serbia’s Digital Overhaul

Mihailo Jovanović, Serbia's Minister of Information and Telecommunications, has been named Reformer of the Year by the National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED),...

The EU and UNDP allocated 580,000 euros for civil society

The European Union and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have allocated funds for the implementation of 12 initiatives of civil society organizations (CSOs)...

Mihailo Jovanović, Serbian Minister of Information and Telecommunications

We’re Ready for the Future

Continuous investment in the ICT sector and advancing digital transformation have proven to be extremely successful and represent the foundations of Serbia’s further transition...

Yakup Beris, UNDP Serbia Resident Representative

Sustainability Makes a Good Business Case

UNDP brings together stakeholders from the private, public and civil sectors, as well as the scientific and creative communities, pooling their capacities, resources and...

International Conference Biotech Future Forum Held in Belgrade

The "Biotech Future Forum" international conference, hosted by the Serbian Government in partnership with the World Economic Forum, Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,...

Mihailo Jovanović, Minister Of Information And Telecommunications

Knowledge Is Our Strength

Digital Serbia’s place is in a digital Europe, and this is best illustrated by the results we’ve achieved over the past six years. We...

Strengthening Cooperation In Field Of ICT With Qatar

Minister of Information and Telecommunications Mihailo Jovanovic and Minister of Communications and Information Technology of the State of Qatar Mohammed bin Ali bin Mohammed...

Mihailo Jovanović, Minister Of Information And Telecommunications

We’re Developing Intelligently And Prudently

The digitalisation process has brought dramatic change to the structure of Serbian exports, but also to the daily conducting of jobs among citizens, businesses...