Indonesia’s G20 Presidency has offered an opportunity for learning and working with other countries on digital connectivity and recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, chairman of the Indonesian Telematics Society (MASTEL) Sarwoto Atmosutarno has said.
“Use this opportunity for sharing and collaboration. Let’s share what has successfully worked with other countries. Then what we feel is still lacking, let’s cooperate with other countries, we can learn from them,” Atmosutarno remarked at the ‘2022 DEWG’s Connectivity and Post COVID-19 Recovery’ virtual discussion here on Friday.
For example, Indonesia can develop micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to recover its economy, he said.
“In Europe, there are small and medium enterprises (SME), I think the concept is the same on how they use digital platforms. Let’s collaborate,” he remarked.
The G20 forum is a space to learn and collaborate on connectivity and post-pandemic recovery efforts that can be carried out by the government sector, Atmosutarno added.
Currently, the Indonesian government is running the e-government program as part of efforts to organize government services electronically through the use of information technology, he noted.
“The government has the e-government program that is encouraged to use connectivity. Now we look at the G20 (member states), which countries have been effective in implementing e-government,” he said.
According to Atmosutarno, the steps to realize e-government must not only be implemented by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics but also other ministries.
At the Digital Economy Working Group (DEWG) of the 2022 Indonesian G20 Presidency, the Ministry of Communication and Informatics presented three priority issues, one of which was the “Connectivity and Post COVID-19 Recovery,” he noted.
Meanwhile, the second issue was digital skills and digital literacy, and the third issue was cross-border data flow and data free flow with trust, which focused on data flow governance across national borders, he added.
Source: Antara News