MINSK, 6 August (BelTA) – The Economy Ministry of Belarus plans to scale up the Korean experience in digital transformation, BelTA learned from the press service of the ministry.
A final seminar on the project “Intellectual Support for the Organization of Digital Transformation of the Belarusian Industry” was held as part of the action plan to implement the Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) in 2020-2021. This is the fifth and final event that crowns the second stage of this Belarus-Korea project this year.
Head of the Economics of Innovation Department Dmitry Krupsky made a welcoming speech on behalf of the Economy Ministry. The seminar was attended by a representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Belarus, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee on Science and Technology Andrei Kosovsky, First Deputy Chairman of the State Committee for Standardization Dmitry Bartashevich, Deputy Minister of Communications and Informatization Anna Ryabova, department heads of government agencies, leaders of industry unions and associations, as well as heads and senior members of educational and research institutions. All in all, about 100 people (28 in person, more than 70 online) took part in the event.
The Economy Ministry is satisfied with the results of the project and intends to scale them up. The experience gained while implementing the project will be used in policy making to facilitate digitalization of the real economic sector, and while developing pilot projects to further digital transformation of business processes of organizations subordinate to respective ministries and concerns, as well as medium-size and big manufacturing companies,” the press service emphasized.
There are plans to continue providing information and consulting support to the real economic sector on its way to the digital transformation within the framework of the KSP project 2021/2022.
