The Digital Cooperation Organization announced the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Sultanate of Oman's accession and considering them as founding member states, besides the first five member states, represented in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait and Pakistan. The seven member states constitute, together, an economic bloc approaching $2 trillion of the world GDP, with the capacity of common market with 14 trillion of opportunities, as they have a population force of 480 million, 80 percent of them are youth. Digital Cooperation Organization held its first meeting here today, chaired by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology Eng. Abdullah bin Aamir Al-Swaha, in the presence of ministers from the member states, the Secretary General of the International Communication Union Houlin Zhao, President of the World Economic Forum Borge Brende, the Secretary General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef Al-Hajraf and representatives of other UN programs. During the meeting, approval has been made to launch five qualitative initiatives, aiming at establishing a center to spotlight significance of cooperation, in regard of trans border data sorting out and others to back up woman empowerment, in the digital labor market, in addition to initiatives to best serve entrepreneurship and small as well as medium size companies to grow and realize a digital future for all. The meeting also approved the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Presidency of the Digital Cooperation Organization until the end of the current session and to appoint the Saudi national lady Deemah AlYahya as its first secretary general.
