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MINSK, 28 March (BelTA) – A Belarusian-Korean center for cooperation in the area of information technologies has been opened in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

The center has been established in line with the agreement on cooperation between the Belarusian Communications and Informatization Ministry and the National Information Society Agency of the Republic of Korea in establishing and operating a Belarusian-Korean center for cooperation in the area of information technologies. For both sides the IT cooperation center represents an opportunity to share the best practices, participate in new projects, and expand professional contacts.

Belarusian Communications and Informatization Minister Sergei Popkov said: “We are now implementing the government program on developing digital economy and information society in 2016-2020. The establishment and operation of the IT cooperation center represents an instrument that will allow us to move faster to accomplish these goals.”

Three projects envisaged by the program are supposed to be implemented soon. The first one provides for developing a paperless trade system inside Belarus and on the market of the Eurasian Economic Union. The system will allow optimizing and accelerating trade deals. A project to convert archive documents into a digital form will be implemented as well. The third project deals with information security, explained Sergei Popkov. The implementation of these projects is supposed to be finished by mid-2019.