Hungary's PM Orbán Optimistic About IT Development

  • 5 Oct 2012 9:00 AM
Hungary's  PM Orbán Optimistic About IT Development
IT sector development has a promising future in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening of an international cyberspace conference in Budapest on Thursday. Hungarians have always been in the forefront of IT sector development, he con-tinued, mentioning mathematician János Neumann, Farkas Kempelen, who in-vented the talking machine, and BASIC computer language creator János Kemény.

The countries of the world must prepare to fight cyber-terrorism, Orbán stressed, calling for the protection of private and personal data, and information of national security importance.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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