fourthly, the social networking platform becomes a source of its own information, intended
both for the media and general public.
Speaking about the peculiarities of formation of As part of the implementation of the Strategy in
the information society in Uzbekistan, one should 2017, the State Program “Year of Dialogue with
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also take into account that the share of young people the
laws and over 900 other legal acts aimed at the
from the total population of the country is more than development of all spheres of state and public
63%, while about 75% of young people use social life. In 2017-2021 It is planned to implement
programs, providing for a total of 649
networks and instant messengers. The increase of sectoral
investment projects worth $ 40 billion. As a result,
the influence of the Internet on mind and value in the next five years, the production of industrial
orientations, especially of young people, their civil goods will increase by 1.5 times, its share in GDP
grow from 33.6% to 36%, the share of the
socialization it can be predicted that the impact may will
processing industry to 85%.
be both positive and negative. This raises a problem
of information-psychological protection of society to
ensure the security of information and information systems in the country. There is a Center for
Information Security and Assistance in Ensuring Public Order, as well as “UZCERT” - the
Information Security Incident Response Service whose tasks are to reduce the level of
information security threats for users of the Uzbek national segment of the Internet. To this end,
UZCERT assists domestic and foreign legal entities and individuals in identifying, preventing and
suppressing illegal activities directed against information systems and resources of the UZ
domain. The government pays great attention to the improvement of information and
communication technologies in all directions. In particular, in February 2018, the President of
the Republic of Uzbekistan Sh. Mirziyoyev initiated activities aimed at further improvement of
the ICT management system, expanding the range of electronic public services and developing
the telecommunication infrastructure in the country.
To follow these the government takes the responsibility to adopt the ICT development
program in the country's regions for 2018-2020, to solve the following tasks: further
development of the infrastructure to take advantage of ICT capabilities; improvement of the
mobile communications quality; increase in the level of Internet access; increase in the
integration of information systems of state bodies; development of the software development
industry.
The President of Uzbekistan also paid attention to insufficient implementation of advanced
information and communication technologies in foreign policy and foreign economic activity, the
development of tools of "digital diplomacy", which is a key element in international relations,
since its main purpose is to promote the foreign policy interests of the state.
Despite the fact that there are already positive results from the measures taken by the
state to form and develop the information society in the country, there are some tasks of national
importance that need to be addressed as soon as possible. These, in particular are:
• improvement of legislation aimed at ensuring informational, ideological and
psychological protection of society, its spiritual and moral values when using information and
communication technologies, improving the culture of behavior of the population (Internet users)
in the virtual space, as well as protecting state interests in the international information space;
• adoption of a strategic conceptual document on the gradual establishment and
development of the information society in Uzbekistan and the national digital economy;
• development of the national information software that meets international standards to
protect information and national information and communication systems from external cyber-
attacks;
• activating the work of state and economic management bodies through the use of
information and communication technologies in their activities, especially local government
bodies.
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