Based on the World Telecommunications and Information Society Day, which is celebrated on May 17, the Angolan Government will hold a forum called “Angola Tech Hub Forum 2022”, that same day.
The event, which will be held around the theme “Digital technologies for healthy aging”, was presented to journalists yesterday (10th), and focuses on the objective of emphasizing awareness of the important role of ICT in supporting people to stay healthy, connected and independent, physically, emotionally and financially, and plans to address issues around the potential and development of information technologies (ICT) for new business solutions, within the scope of the diversification of the economy.
For Matias Borges, National Director of Telecommunications, Information Technologies at MINTTICS, who presented the Forum's presentation ceremony, the event will bring together more than 200 guests, individuals and institutions, including nationals and foreigners, who will analyze pertinent questions about the digital entrepreneurship as an element that promotes the diversification of the economy, innovation, as well as the diversification of the economy, and digital entrepreneurship and its challenges.
"The role of digital technologies in sustainable development, the challenges and opportunities of technological advances in the context of the economy, will be discussed at the forum”, said Matias Borges.
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On the other hand, the director general of ITA, Francisco Pinto Leite, stressed the intention of continuing to be a partner of the state for the development of technologies in the country, having recalled that ITA has been in Angola for 16 years as a telecommunications operator investing in robust infrastructures and investing in the expansion of fiber optic networks, in the construction of a datacenter, among others.
"We are in line with the government's strategy to transform Angola as a leader in communication and information technologies in Africa”, said Pinto Leite, adding that it is ITA's intention to cover the national territory, and is currently extending the fiber optic network to border areas, highlighting the arrival of fiber optics in the town of Nóqui, province of Zaire.
It should be noted that the Tech Hub Forum is a co-organization of the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information and Communication Technologies (MINTTICS) and ITA (Internet Technologies Angola) and is part of the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865.
