Iran Attends Asia-Pacific ICT Ministerial Meeting

Iran is attending the Asia-Pacific ICT Ministerial Meeting 2019 (APT-MM 2019) that opened on Tuesday in Singapore.
Jointly founded by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, and the International Telecommunications Union, the two-day conference is organized by the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity.
Addressing the gathering, Iran’s ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi emphasized the importance of establishing mechanisms for safeguarding people’s privacy and security in cyberspace, stressing that “protecting people’s rights should be our highest priority”, his website reported.
“The future is digital. Information and communication technologies have overhauled all aspects of life in the world. In tandem with the speedy developments, the cybercrime rate has also grown,” he said.