Rajah & Tann Regional Round-Up
your snapshot of key legal developments in Asia
 Issue 2 - Apr/May/Jun 2021
 

World Telecommunication and Information Society Day and Digital Economic Plan

On 17 May 2021, the Ministry of Technologies and Communications (“MTC”) announced on its website the celebration of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day ("WTISD"). The event is celebrated every 17th of May since 1969. During the WTISD, MTC also announced that it has a digital economic plan for digital transformation as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Lao PDR. Such plan includes the following seven strategies: 


  1. Legal framework;
  2. ICT infrastructure;
  3. Digital platform;
  4. HR development;
  5. ICT innovation;
  6. Cyber security; and
  7. Digital divide and other items such as e-government application and MTC activities during COVID-19.



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