The Vice-President of the Republic, Bornito de Sousa, reiterated that it is imperative for institutions and large public and private companies to absorb the initiatives of startups, embracing them and providing more opportunities for the genius and talent of young Angolans.
The leader expressed this approach at the opening of the Angola Digital Forum 2022 (ADF), last week, where he also reinforced the need to continue to promote opportunities of this kind, for the emergence, presentation of startups and technological innovation projects, highlighting the Angotic Forum, for its role in dealing with digital transformation agendas and themes .
Bornito de Sousa expressed hope that ADF will also become a reference in the national calendar of events on information technologies and digital transformation in Angola, thus bringing together the main players in the sector and agents in politics, finance, business, management and academia.
"May this Angola Digital Forum 2022 be the ideal stage for the debate on the best way to shorten the distance between the problems and challenges of our Angola, still unanswered, and the solutions proposed by the Angolan creative genius, using technology and innovation . We share good practices and initiatives, either through events like this one, or through literary works, technical and scientific studies”, said the Vice President.
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Still in his opening speech at the event, Bornito de Sousa informed that the country is now witnessing a large number and quality of initiatives by Angolan startups that aim to propose innovative and, in a way, disruptive solutions in the areas of Education and Teaching, Health , Agriculture and Fisheries, Oil and Gas, Culture, Tourism and Environment and services such as Commerce, Taxation, Restaurants, Transport and Logistics.
"Appy Health, Tupuca, Kubinga, BayQi, Paya, Partner, Muilo, Neurokandengues, Qbinary, Renascer do Saber and Roque Online are some of the projects proposed by Angolan startups that reveal the great talent and creative capacity of young people”, exemplified the Vice President.
The Vice President of the Republic referred that he is still attentive to what happens in the technological and innovative sector of Angola, underlining that he has followed the training and qualification of young people in the areas of Telecommunications and Information Technologies, IT Security and Communication via Satellite, within the framework of the National Space Program Management Office (GGPEN).
"Very recently we have witnessed the emergence of the Digital.ao incubator, whose main objective is to provide solutions and support for information technology infrastructures for corporate businesses.”, added Bornito de Sousa.
On the other hand, Bornito de Sousa concluded that with the White Paper on Information Technologies serving as an umbrella for the national digital transformation strategy, all the efforts of the Executive are accompanied in order to give greater robustness to the communications infrastructure park electronics, the universalization of access to Information and Communication Technologies, through the expansion of Internet access points and the network of media libraries. He also reaffirmed that innovation and digital transformation have a prominent presence on the official agenda of the Vice-President, as an auxiliary body of the President of the Republic, justified by the number of audiences, visits and other occasions created to listen and share with young entrepreneurs connected to startups, their ideas, dreams and projects, in the so-called new technologies.
