The 11th Meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and World Health Organization (WHO) Focus Group on Artificial Intelligence for Health (FG-AI4H) was organized on January 27-29, as a virtual event. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) participated in the Meeting.

The meeting of the Arab Telecommunications and Information Council of Ministers (ATICM) 24th Session convened on December 17, via videoconference. The meeting was organized by ATICM Technical Secretariat and chaired by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Amr Talaat.

The Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) was organized by the United Nations (UN), online, under the overarching theme “Internet for human resilience and solidarity.”

The ITU-UNESCO Regional Digital Inclusion Week for the Arab States was organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), on October 25-30, under the theme “Serving the underserved in times of crisis: No one left behind”.

The 32nd edition of the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) was organized by Singapore, online, on September 13-19. IOI 2020 was joined by 347 participants, representing 87 countries. All the Egyptian team, consisting of four members, won medals at IOI 2020, including one silver and three bronze medals.

The 20th edition of the Global Symposium for Regulators (GSR-20) was organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), on September 1-3, online, under the theme “The Regulatory Wheel of Change: Regulation for Digital Transformation.”

The Virtual Regional Consultation for the Arab States Region on the first draft of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and hosted by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), on August 10-11.

The Second Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Conversation on Intellectual Property (IP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) was organized as a virtual meeting, in three daily sessions, on July 7-9. The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) participated in the Session.

ICANN68 Virtual Policy Forum was organized by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), on June 22-25. This was the second ICANN meeting to be held virtually due to the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the resulting restricted health measures adopted worldwide.