Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, July 8
By Huseyn Hasanov – Trend:
President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov instructed to develop a project of a building complex for an IT center, select a place for its construction and train workers in the field of information technology, Trend reports referring to Turkmen government.
It was reported, that earlier, the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Turkmenistan (UIET) had put forward an initiative to create an IT-Cluster in line with the Concept of Development of Digital Economy for 2019-2025.
The UIET has already organized seminars with the participation of specialists from Turkey’s Inovera and Telekom Telekominikasyon Dis Tic. ve san. A.S. companies, experienced in the implementation of e-government and cybersecurity systems.
According to the aforementioned concept, an "e-government" system is planned to be developed in Turkmenistan, which is expected to be organized in a fuel and energy complex, chemical industry, processing industry, construction, transport, telecommunications, medicine, textile industry and the agricultural sector.
The new system is expected to allow for a quick and efficient supervision of the seasonal work, as well as provide the opportunity for continuous monitoring and operational decision-making at the level of the sectoral ministry, as well as the administration and agribusinesses.
Local economists think that the implementation of e-government will help improve the efficiency of enterprise management, provide an opportunity for operational control at all stages of business process management, reducing document passage cycles and the execution time of basic functions, and will ensure rapid search for information necessary for making management decisions.
The government of Turkmenistan is discussing with the UN a project of cooperation in the field of reforming and strengthening public administration mechanisms, including macroeconomic regulation and e-government.