BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 14. Azerbaijan plans to be amongst the frontliners in the region with respect to digital transformation, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev said at the meeting with heads of leading German companies in Berlin on March 13, Trend reports.
"Digital transformation now is part of our strategy of not only strategy 2030, but also part of our priorities. And it was not by chance that our Ministry of Communications and Transportation was renamed and now it's named Ministry of Transportation and Digital Transformation. This was not just a change of the name, but the change of the approach. And I fully support what you said. I think that they must be probably more active contacts with our ministry and your company. Because we really plan to be amongst the frontliners with respect to digital transformation in our region. This is general how to strategy of our government to try to attract and to apply modern technologies in the areas, which have a great potential and not to be late and not to be lazy," President Ilham Aliyev said.