To capture lessons learned and plan the way forward
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 23 July, 2024:
The Digital Cooperation Organization’s (DCO) General Secretariat said in a statement that it would hold urgent discussions with its Member States and digital economy experts to address the implications of the global IT outage that disrupted vital operations around the world, affecting critical business sectors like aviation, banking, broadcast media, software providers, and more.
The DCO General Secretariat states, “the high level of impact the world witnessed due to the unfortunate outage is alarming and indicates the dire need for a more effective and agile international digital cooperation. The incident raised questions about continuity and sustainability in a rapidly changing world dependent on digital channels and platforms. The international community must develop proper policies and protocols to mitigate the risks of such incidents and ensure the continuity of essential operations.
To this end, the DCO General Secretariat has called for an urgent deliberation for its Member States and digital economy experts to capture the lessons learned from this incident, assess its impact on national digital transformation plans in Member States, and plan practical steps to ensure that relevant stakeholders across sectors are aligned and ready to deal with such mishaps.
Source: AETOSWire