The Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government, Marija Obradović, and the Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to Serbia, H.E. Hyoung-chan Choe, have announced today that Serbia will get a second SKIP Center next year, which will be opened in Niš, intended for free IT training of citizens, civil servants and start-up companies, in order to improve their technological literacy and enable them to use the eServices that the Government of Serbia is developing.
Minister Obradović has pointed out that the first SKIP Center (Serbian-Korean Information Access Center) was opened four years ago in Belgrade, the services of which have thus far been used by over 40,000 citizens and civil servants. She has added that Niš is a good location for the opening of a new SKIP Center, and that it is even more important that we work on education and training of citizens and the economy when it comes to ICT programmes in this part of the country.
The Korean Ambassador has said that the SKIP Center in Belgrade operates the best of all 60 Centers, the opening of which was supported worldwide by the Korean government, and that it is a symbol of excellent cooperation between the two countries. He has congratulated Minister Obradović on the efforts of MDULS to open another SKIP Center in Serbia, because that is not the practice in other countries.
Minister Obradović and Ambassador Hyoung-chan Choe have confirmed the signing of a new Memorandum of Cooperation between MDULS and the National Information Society Agency of the Republic of Korea, which shall further define the opening and operation of the SKIP Center in Niš, and have also exchanged views on further cooperation in digitization and new eServices between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of Korea, especially within the local self-government units in our country.
On this occasion, MDULS has received 1,000 protective masks for employees as a gift from the Korean Embassy in Serbia, as a form of support in the fight against COVID-19.
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