SA wants to be involved in innovation, not just be consumers of it: Gungubele: Speaking ahead of the meetings at the Cape Town International Convention Centre, Gungubele said his department would promote the rapid deployment and rollout of…
South Africa assumed the chairship of Brics on January 1, taking over from China. As a result, it will host the 15th Brics summit, which is an international relations conference of the member states.
Brics remains a strategic platform for South Africa’s foreign policy objectives. In the department, one of the key strategic objectives is to advance South Africa’s national ICT interests in regional and international forums towards attaining partnerships for economic growth and development. “It is for this reason that the hosting of this year’s meeting of communications ministers is so important. Previous meetings also resolved to encourage wider access to digital platforms and technologies, and for affordable access by citizens of Brics countries to information and communication.”Among the expected areas of discussion is digital inclusion, expansion and development of transformative technologies as well as internet governance and security.
“On digital inclusion, South Africa’s view is that the country is not an island, and the country’s membership of Brics must serve to consolidate its relations with the rest of the continent,” said Gungubele.
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