Dauren Abayev has attended the World Government Summit in Dubai

The World Government Summit being held February 12 to 14, 2017 in United Arab Emirates is a global platform dealing with the creation of future government worldwide.

Members of 130 governments and international organizations are discussing in Dubai the public administration institutions’ activities. Every year, the Summit puts forward the topical tasks for the governments’ next generation, focusing on how they can use innovations and technologies for addressing the universal challenges faced by the mankind.

At the World Government Summit, Dauren Abayev got familiarized with the Dubai Media City.

Dubai Media City was founded in 2000. The media center is part of Dubai Holding, and is involved in media industry, web support, news maintenance, and production of movies and videos. The Media City representatives told that this is a hub for media industry in Persian Gulf and Middle East that provides service to the entire region. All media companies are located nearby each other which facilitated sharing information and coordinating the mass media. Also, the media center is occupied with printed products and publishing business and owns a great number of pavilions for production teams. The media center coordinates the activities of over 1300 media companies in 24 countries worldwide.

Minister of Information and Communications remarked that such kind of practices in the field of mass media and TV/cinema industry might be useful to Kazakhstan in terms of media companies’ interoperability.