SESRIC, in collaboration with Universal Postal Union (UPU) and La Poste Tunisienne, organised the Second Workshop on Electronic Postal Service Payments on 26-28 February 2019 in Tunis, Tunisia.

The main aim of the workshop was to enable the designated operators of the OIC Member States in the Arab region to further develop and improve electronic payment services by extending the network, enhancing the services, and implementing the new postal payment services vision.

The workshop programme covered the following subtopics:

• Action plan implementation status in the region;
• Presentation of the interconnection platform, available services and IFS cloud developments;
• Participation in the Postransfer Group and presentation of the license agreement and new promotional materials;
• Review of issues and challenging delaying the opening of bilateral exchanges.

The representatives from each designated operators, namely, senior managers from the postal financial services department or IT specialists in the area of financial services participated in the workshop.