Baku, Azerbaijan, Nov.27
By Huseyn Veliyev - Trend:
The Ministry of Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan has prepared a new state program for the development of information and communication technologies, the ministry told Trend Nov.26.
The ministry said that the new state program, which will cover 2015-2016 years, will be adopted within the framework of the "National Strategy for Information Society Development in Azerbaijan for 2014-2020", approved by the president of Azerbaijan on April 2, 2014.
The ministry said that the state program defines the main objectives of activity for the coming years, among which is the increase of number of electronic services rendered to the population, improvement of their quality, expansion of the telecommunications infrastructure, data communications networks and so on.
Currently, the document is at the stage of consideration of the government of Azerbaijan.
New state program on ICT is aimed to solve the problem of the "digital divide" between the center and the regions of Azerbaijan. The implementation of the project on the development of broadband infrastructure, satellite systems and so on, will be essential in order to overcome the "digital divide".
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