US is interested in the development of cooperation with Azerbaijan in the sphere of information technologies (IT). David Gross, Coordinator on Information Policy and International Relations of the Bureau for Economic and Business Issues of US State department told during the today`s meeting in the office of Azerbaijan`s Telecommunications and IT Ministry, Trendreports.
According to him, Azerbaijan has a huge potential on the IT sphere development, and applying of new technologies.
Mr. Gross pointed out that during the meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, perspectives of the further development of cooperation in this direction were discussed.
Telecommunication and IT sphere, like other fields must have a legislative base to regulate the whole field, underlined Mr. Gross.
Mr. Gross considers that just education, both high and higher, and high-skilled staff training play the most important role on the general perspective of this development.
In addition to the Azerbaijani Telecommunication Minister, US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ann Derse, as well as representatives of different state offices, non-governmental organizations took part in the meeting held at the office of the telecommunication Ministry.