OREANDA-NEWS. August 20, 2012. Prime Minister Vlad Filat participated in the inauguration of a Moldovan-Korean Centre of Information and Access, according to the government's communication and press relations department.

Attending the event also were Information Technology and Communications Minister Pavel Filip, Korean Deputy Public Administration and Security Minister Seo Pil-Eon, members of the Korean delegation and other official people.

The Moldovan-Korean Centre of Information and Access was set up by the Information Technology and Communications Ministry in partnership with the Korean National Information Society Agency (NIA).

Vlad Filat thanked the Korean delegation for the support, noting that this centre provides large prospects for transfer of experience on behalf of Korea in the development of the information technology and communications sector in Moldova.

"The experience of Korea, a leading country at the world level in the development of the information society, is very important for the Moldovan government", Filat said.

Also, Filat welcomed signing of a memorandum of cooperation in the ICT area between the Information Technology and Communications Ministry and the Korean Public Administration and Security Ministry. He said that this memorandum will be a counterpoint for Moldova in the development of IT sector.

"We have all we need for the development of the IT sector. The government assumes responsibility to work out an adequate normative framework so that this sector develop with the needed speed", Filat noted.

Filat said that the government had started the procedure of lifting visas for Korean citizens starting with 2013.

Pavel Filip said that the centre's opening was possible due to a dialogue held between the two sides in 2011 autumn.

He thanked Filat for the attitude and interest in the IT sector, the support in the centre's creation, application of some fiscal facilities for the economic agents working in the IT sector, as well as for the rise in the number of scholarships at the faculties in the IT sector.

He said that the Information Technology and Communications Ministry is expected to create opportunities of access to information and training courses, so that the community of the IT experts and the interested public have access to the new information technologies, enhance the training level and benefit from this cooperation instrument between Moldova and Korea in the IT sector.

For his part, Seo Pil-Eon thanked Filat for the support in the creation of the Moldovan-Korean Centre of Information and Access. He said that the centre's opening is due to the 20th anniversary of the diplomatic relations between Moldova and Korea.

The participants in the event visited the halls of the Moldovan-Korean Centre of Information and Access. A teleconference Chisinau-Seul was organized in the IT training laboratory. The officials had the opportunity to test the performing equipment and the public access to high-speed Internet.

The centre is a multi-purpose facility, which has a conference hall provided with audio/video devices and a system of teleconferences, an IT training laboratory and a hall for public access to high-speed Internet.