<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Obstacles to the transition towards a digital economy... The incident of the company (Erethlink) as a model</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="color: #3598db;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt;">&nbsp;Dr. Hamed Rahim Janani</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The economic development processes were and are still paralyzed in Iraq mainly for political factors and factors to keep pace with developments in the global economic activity in the digital transformations in the economic activity, which requires infrastructure through the marriage between private experiences andthe internal economic reality, inaddition to legal legislation </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">First: What is onlythe digital economy </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">is the use of information technology andcommunication machines in the driving aspects of economic activities, which expands the scope of opportunities available </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Requirements forthe digital economy:</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1 </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Thetechnological infrastructure </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2 </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Hardware, software and networks </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">3 </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Digital mechanisms through which business and others take place</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Second: The strategic dimension of the digitaleconomy through</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">1 The basis and digital basis to</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> reach the level of infrastructure to the point that it can keep pace with technological changes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">2 Creativity and digital innovation </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">to keep pace with the technological future and provide education systems and skills that help innovation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">3 Empowering the citizen digitally</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> to maximize the benefit of individuals from the use of digital technology </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">4 Digital business to </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">enable companies to use technology effectively</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">5 Digital governments</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> to provide a digital government that targets technological investment for the benefit of its citizens, reducing dealing costs, raising the quality of life for citizens, and achieving transparency </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Third: Foreign investment and local companies </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">through two types </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">First: Real investment that appears in the form of productive projects of goods or services </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Second: financial appears in the form of financial speculation and exchange of shares, bonds and other securities, any investments in the stock exchange</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Fourth: Iraq and the index of transformation towards the digital economy Iraq</span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> &nbsp;is classified according to the Arab Digital Economic Union and the Council of Arab Economic Unity in the League of Arab States in the third and final list and one of the countries that need digital activation and more investments to maximize the capabilities of its digital infrastructure</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Fifth, the Internet </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">by attracting the best companies and settling them in the Iraqi economy &nbsp;in addition to the effort that is based on partnerships with companies and international expertise with great comparative advantages, and perhaps the company (Earthlink) is one of the important companies in the field of Internet service, &nbsp;as the company was founded in 2005 and has a processing system for a group of sub-companies spread in 15 provinces except the region,&nbsp; In 2011, it became the largest Internet provider in Iraq with important business partnerships with the Iraqi Ministry of Communications </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">The security element is the important aspect of investment performance, whether local or foreign, or a partnership between the two sides, and the security incident that companies were exposed to in their central building in Baghdad 5/9/2022 is a very dangerous targeting, according to what has been reviewed of the challenges facing Iraq on the road to transformation towards a digital economy&nbsp;</span></p>