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Uzbekistan is working to crease payment systems aimed at guaranteeing the solution of tasks involving legal, technical and technological support of payment systems.

Such systems are needed for achieving better results in regulatory challenges tasks as well as regulatory support of payment systems, stated Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Uzbekistan B. Zakhidov.

On Thursday, 8 February, ten enterprises, which wished to become official partner of centre, signed a memorandum of understanding between partners of Centre for Electronic Governance under IT Association.

Last year the government enacted a 2013-2020 national strategy for IT development. It has already rung up considerable achievements, like creating about 200 government websites. The Single Interactive State Services Portal (YePIGU) is already available at my.gov.uz in three languages – Uzbek, Russian and English. Uzbeks can accomplish many tasks now without leaving home. Since my.gov.uz began functioning July 1, 2013, more than 25,000 Uzbeks have used the site.

A meeting between Union Minister for Electronics & Information Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad and the Minister for Development of Information Technologies and Communications, Uzbekistan Shuhrat Sadikov was held in New Delhi for strengthening bilateral cooperation between the two countries in ICT sector.

The Uzbek side appreciated India’s achievement under the Digital India programme and expressed interest for co-operation in the area of IT-ITeS trade promotion, e-Governance, HRD and capacity building, telemedicine, etc. Further, the Uzbek side showed keen interest in techno-park cooperation.

VisionCraft, an Indian IT company, may take part in a number of projects in Uzbekistan, the Uzbek media reported.

A meeting with VisionCraft’s Managing Partner Amolak Singh was held at the e-Government Development Center.

LG CNS established LG CNS Uzbekistan in April this year. Since then, the local corporation has signed contracts worth approximately 25 billion won in the three fields of database business for individual and corporate customers, integrated platform business and IT infrastructure improvement at educational facilities.

At present, LG CNS Uzbekistan is working on contracts worth a total of 127 billion won (US$108 million), including those related to digital libraries, tax management services, kiosks for civil petitions, national geographic information and portals for the central and local governments of Uzbekistan. Under the circumstances, an increasing number of Korean companies doing the same business as LG CNS are expected to be able to start their business in the country.

The Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Korea held the e-Government Cooperation Forum with Kazakhstan, an e-Government leader in the Middle East, on April 25 (Korean time) in Kazakhstan’s capital, Astana. During the forum, public officials and experts from the two countries held a heated discussion on various issues on e-Government including government data center and future strategies for digital government.

At Kazakh President Nazarbayev’s state visit to Seoul in November last year, the Ministry of the Interior of Korea and the Ministry of Information and Communications of Kazakhstan signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on e-Government.

The MoU to launch a “joint venture” was signed on Tuesday in Uzbekistan. Representatives of LG CNS, including its President Kim Dae-hoon, were there accompanying President Park Geun-hye during her ongoing visit to Central Asia.

Conference is part of a tech training program for Uzbek officials

The future of e-governance and the creativity found through information and communications technology (ICT) were at the center of discussions held by some two dozen Korean and Uzbek ICT experts in a seminar at the Central Officials Training Institute (COTI) in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi.

“Many people think that e-government is only with computers, typing something, and that we have to learn or teach people [about] computers. I think we do not need big skills. When the person is interested in something, you will learn it naturally,” Bobur Sagdullaevich Abdullaev, an official with Uzbekistan’s Ministry for Development of Information Technologies and Communications, told the Korea JoongAng Daily on July 9.

Uzbekistan will introduce the South Korean e-government and digital economy system.

When South Korean President Moon Jae-in visited the Central Asian country in April last year, Uzbek President Shavkat Miromonovich Mirziyoyev strongly requested Korea’s assistance in building an e-government system in his country. The Uzbek leader wants to transplant Korea's rapid economic growth DNA to his country. Since then, the two countries have expedited cooperation on the matter.

Uzbekistan intends to adopt Kazakhstan’s experience in developing public services, Kazakhstan’s Agency for Civil Service Affairs and Anti-Corruption reported Dec. 22.

State Services Department Director Adilbek Mukashev met with representatives of Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Justice, and presented one-stop-shop centres and the e-government system, where the Kazakh side presented its experience in assessing, controlling and publicly monitoring the quality of public services.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport (MOLIT), which is officially accompanying President Yoon Suk-yeol on his state visit to three Central Asian countries – Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan – has agreed to expand existing construction and infrastructure cooperation with resource-rich Turkmenistan to include new areas such as new towns and smart cities. Additionally, they aim to strengthen collaboration in transportation sectors, including aviation and railways.

Given Turkmenistan's abundant natural gas resources, which rank fourth in the world in reserves, it is expected to commission large-scale plant construction projects to expand production. Both countries are also signing various agreements to concretize this cooperation.

The study tour was organized in close cooperation with the e-Government section of Federal Chancellery of Switzerland, directly involved in development and implementation of national e-government strategy.

US company C&N Associates plans to build a "smart city" in Nurafshan, Uzbekistan, with an estimated investment of $10-15bn, the Tashkent regional khokimiyat (city administration) has announced.

Regional khokim Zoir Mirzayev met with Ronald James Hubbard, director of C&N Associates, to discuss the smart city project that would cover 1,600 hectares with advanced infrastructure and technology aimed at providing high living standards.

The new passports will be printed in the Mirzo-Ulugbek district, where new imported equipment has been installed to produce the passports and specialists are being trained to use the system, Uznews.net has learned from the OVViOG (the district passport registry).

The four districts involved are currently gathering biometric data from the population (passport information, photographs, fingerprints, etc.), which will be included in the electronic information contained in the new passport documents.

American company C&N Associates plans to build a “smart city” in Nurafshan.

Zoir Mirzaev, the khokim (governor) of Tashkent region, held negotiations with a delegation from C&N Associates, led by director Ronald James Hubbard.

The US delegation presented a project for a “smart city” to be developed in the administrative center of the region.

In the metropolitan International Business Center held a round table on "The role of modern information and communication technologies in the modernization of public administration and democratization of society", Embassy of Uzbekistan said.

Deputies of the Legislative Chamber of Oliy Majlis, managers and employees of state power and administration, foreign ICT experts, representatives of NGOs, civil society, the media and others attended it.

In a field in the heart of Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley, a greenhouse isn’t just the simple structure it used to be. It’s now alive with digital sensors connected to the internet, through which a farmer can control the temperature, humidity, light and soil moisture. In the past a lot of earnings would disappear into paying for utility bills and buying fertilizers. Now, it is possible to regulate these inputs through the sensors. If anything needs to be adjusted in the greenhouse, the mobile phone buzzes to alert her. These sensors were particularly useful over the summer when extreme heat and lack of water impacted production from her greenhouse. While other farmers sustained great losses, the digital greenhouse was able to maintain her production at close to last year’s levels. It is a different type of farming now with digital technology. This situation frees up more time for other things such as marketing the produce, spending time with family and improving education and quality of life. Smart sensors based on the internet of things are being installed in greenhouses across Uzbekistan’s Fergana Valley.

Uzbekistan is making the change to comply with standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), which sets the requirements for international travel documents.

Biometric passports have enhanced security features that can be read using electronic devices to verify holders’ nationalities.

The air and railway tickets to Uzbek citizens traveling abroad as of July 1, 2014 will be formalized and sold on the basis of biometric passports, according to the decree.

The intention is to simplify the passport control procedure at international border crossings and to ensure effective protection of the citizens' rights and freedoms, according to the document.