Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Wednesday issued a circular on the 2022 state budget, in which she called for taking into account the state of austerity that the country is passing through and the situation that requires solidarity to face the emerging unprecedented financial, economic, social and health crisis.

Minister Abdel Samad included her memo with the vision for the Ministry of Information, which is committed to modernization and restructuring, by transitioning the traditional official information system to an integrated public media, while activating a modern law on Information and communication, enhancing transparency and the right to access to information, and expanding the areas of innovation and digital transformation.

Accordingly, the minister called for the preparation of the 2022 draft budget to be in line with the vision of the ministry and recent economic, financial and health developments.