Uzbekistan capital has hosted a seminar training event entitled "Topical tasks of introducing modern information-communication technologies into print media outlets' activities", BBC Monitoring reports.
Specialists and experts on media and information-communication technologies attended the event organized by the public foundation for supporting and developing Uzbekistan's independent print media outlets and news agencies.
The main subject of the seminar was to discuss practical aspects of introducing modern information-communication and digital technologies in print media outlets' activities, as well as developing organizational-legal and material-technical bases, and improving the training of editorial and technical personnel in the sphere.
The meeting also considered various aspects of the contemporary state of and trends in the development of new technologies and virtual information spaces, as well as creating a system of ensuring timely and qualitative exchanges of information between major central and regional publications.
Speakers at the seminar underlined that the legal basis of developing the information sphere was currently regulated by almost twenty laws and norm-setting documents in the country. Several national programmes are being implemented. Special attention is being paid to supporting the electronic versions of periodicals and to the rapid development of Internet journalism. All [of the country's] central and regional newspapers have their own websites.