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Hiwa Afandi participated at MEPS24 Panel

Hereby, followed by the Internet for the first time in history in the mid-1990s, and today the Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts the lives of each and every one of us.

Head of Information and Technology Department at Kurdistan Regional Government, Hiwa Afandi (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Head of Information and Technology Department at Kurdistan Regional Government, Hiwa Afandi (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

November 22nd, 2024

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – On Friday, November 22, 2024, from the Information and Technology Department at the Kurdistan Regional Government, the Head of the department, Hiwa Afandi participated at the MEPS24 panel.

He gave a brief surfing across human history, pointing to a number of inventions, mentioning nations and their inventions in the history, starting from the Iraqi Sumerians who invented writing.

The past five thousand years are more important than all the past thousands for knowing more about those five thousand years than the average of the past thousands.

The Chinese invented paper 2500 years ago, the Germans invented printing in the Middle Ages, the telegraph was invented in 1914, all that cumulative growth of it, it’s discoveries made from silicon and germanium.

Hereby, followed by the Internet for the first time in history in the mid-1990s, and today Artificial Intelligence (AI) impacts the lives of each and every one of us.

"When you talk about a public policy, you have to talk about a government with electronic and digital influence” Afandi stated.

He furthermore, talked about Chinese silk, its influence is because of the technology it has, and the cheapness of that technology.

Worth mentioning, in the Kurdistan Region, at the beginning of the ninth cabinet, the Prime Minister, Masrour Barzani with a unique vision, to set a roadmap for digitizing the government.