The President of the Republic Mr.Nicos Anastasiades received today, at the Presidential Palace, the annual report of the Communications Commissioner Mr.George Michaelides for the year 2021.
Handing over the report, Mr. Michaelides said that "over the last two years we have developed a framework for the deployment of high-speed networks that gives predictability and certainty for investors to invest in high-speed networks. We have also recently taken actions to accelerate these investments, such as, for example, the wells from the providers, piles, internal cabling issues" and others.
He also expressed satisfaction because, on the issue of connectivity, the index measuring the level at which each country is at indicates that Cyprus is now in 12th position from the 27th position it was in in 2019.
He added that Cyprus is progressing at a very fast pace, citing as an example the 5G network and noting that twice as much data usage has been developed.
Regarding the issue of cybersecurity, Mr. Michaelides said that we are moving forward and building structures, making agreements with other countries and cooperation either for training or information exchange, stressing that "the most important thing is that we have built the national coordination centre following a European directive that is responsible for the distribution of funds in the Cypriot market either to academics or to businesses, to anyone involved in cybersecurity, in order to build a community in this area."
He also said that we are moving forward with the creation of a service accreditation centre and In two years to go from 27th to 12th is real progress.
To move forward with cybersecurity issues in this way, with the partnerships that are forming, that's just as important, because hybrid warfare today is considered perhaps one of the most important."
Finally, he congratulated the Commissioner and his colleagues for the work they are doing, urging them to continue with the same determination in their programming.
(PM/MB/SX)
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