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Ministry signs agreement to enhance ICT sector in Oman

In the course of its efforts to build a collaboration with large IT companies to further enhance the information and communications technology field in the Sultanate, the Ministry of Technology and Communications (MTC) has signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Cisco International Limited.

The MoC was signed digitally by Dr Salim bin Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, CEO of MTC and Ali bin Mohsen Al Lawati, GM Oman and Yaman, Cisco.

As stated by the MoC, MTC and Cisco will implement capacity building and training workshops, hackathons and improve camps in ICT latest trends and solutions developed by Cisco. Cisco will also help MTC to inspire potential startup ideas and successful solutions to improve and increase through the Cisco platform and featuring them in Cisco innovation centres. In addition, Cisco will offer access to its sandbox environment (Cisco DevNet) for testing and creating new solutions.

Both MTC and Cisco will control design thinking framework sessions on artificial intelligence and the internet of things projects to ease solutions development. This MoC will also promote further collaboration between MTC and Cisco to enable knowledge sharing and best practices adoption by government entities and SMEs.



Source: https://menafn.com/1100324884/Ministry-signs-agreement-to-enhance-ICT-sector-in-Oman

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