OREANDA-NEWS. The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) week will take place in Tashkent from 24 to 28 September , 2007. It is foreseen that the annual national ICT exhibition “ICTExpo 2007” to be held in the Republican Center    “Uzkurgazmasavdo” will be the most important event during this week, reported the press-centre of Uztelecom.

In addition it should be noted, that for the first time in the scope of ICT week “ICTExpo 2007” will be organized in Samarkand city too from 25 to 26 September, 2007 which is planned to be participated by specialists and interested people of the region.

The Association of enterprises and organizations of Uzbekistan dealing with information technologies will appear as the organizer of that exhibition while Communications and Information Agency of Uzbekistan  will provide the governmental support to that event.

Various companies of IT-market will participate in this exhibition due to its wide specialization. The exhibition will be represented by the system integration companies, fixed-line and mobile operators, ISPs, designers and suppliers of telecommunication and computer equipment and others.

All existing and perspective kinds of services based on information and communication technologies have been oriented both to representatives of business-community, authorities and for broad groups of population.

Members of the Association of enterprises and organizations on information and communication technologies of Uzbekistan (non-governmental and non-commercial organizations) will be among the first visitors of that exhibition. Participants include more than 45 leading enterprises of IT-industry of Uzbekistan. Moreover, the IT-companies producing soft and hardware products, providers, mobile operators, telecommunication equipment suppliers, representatives of ministries and departments will also participate in the event.

The exhibition will be represented by the higher educational institutions of the country. Domestic tele-medicine systems will be demonstrated at individual stands.

The program of the exhibition includes: scientific and technical conferences, seminars, round tables to discuss a wide range of information and communications related issues, transmission of presentation programs, sharing with experiences on the latest progress of the industry and all of these will be organized in specialized halls of “Uzexpocenter”.

A great number of educational, cultural and entertainment events will be organized during that exhibition. There will be “gamers-zones” and “action-zone”.

On neighbouring to the exhibition territories it is planned to organize concerts, entertainment, sport events.  An access to the Internet based on Wi-Fi technology will be organized throughout the exhibition.   

No doubt that the annual national “ICTExpo 2007” held within a framework of ICT week will secure a new impulse to development of profitable cooperation in the field of ICT and to establishment of strong business contacts.