3rd meeting of ICT Ministers of ECO
In this meeting and during various sessions, the
Ministers, the heads of delegations, and other participants will discuss the
latest developments in the scope recognized by the “2025 ECO Regional Strategy
for Information Society Development 2025”, also the future horizon of the
organization, and the mechanisms for regional integration in the field of ICT
The ECO Region shelters more than 460 million
inhabitants and expands over 8 million square kilometers of land, connecting
the north to south, south, and east to the west, Asia to Europe, and Eurasia to
the Arab World. Since its early years of establishment, transport, and
connectivity have been on the top of the ECO agenda. By adopting the ECO Vision
2025 in March 2017, the ECO is now mandated to ensure the realization of the
relevant expected outcomes envisaged, including in its digital economy and ICT
affairs.
ECO’s first Ministerial Meeting on Information and Communications Technology
and Telecommunications was held on 11-13 November 2012 in Tehran. The second
meeting was held in Baku on the 4th of December, 2017. But the world has
changed to a great extent since 2017. In particular, the Covid 19 and recent
developments in Artificial Intelligence have brought on a seismic and profound
shift in the field of ICT. This highlights the necessity for ECO members to
gather together for the third time and take stock of these developments and their
impacts on the region