May 24 (SeeNews) - Serbia and Qatar have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) regarding cooperation in the field of information and communication technologies, Serbia's telecommunications ministry said on Wednesday.
The main objectives of the agreement are to support cooperation between state institutions and the private sector in the use of information and communication technologies as a means of improving public services, the ministry said in a press release.
“We will intensify our cooperation through the exchange of knowledge related to the construction of large data centres and cooperation with global cloud leaders such as Oracle, Microsoft, Google and Amazon,” Serbia's telecommunications minister Mihajlo Jovanovic said. "Through this partnership, we aim to share expertise, knowledge and best practices in the ICT sector."
Earlier this month, US-based multinational computer technology company Oracle opened a regional centre in a data centre in Serbia’s central city of Kragujevac.