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Azerbaijan to chair meeting on Broadband Internet challenges in Davos

17 January 2014 16:16 (UTC+04:00)
Azerbaijan to chair meeting on Broadband Internet challenges in Davos

By Nigar Orujova

Azerbaijan's Communications and IT Minister Ali Abbasov will chair an extraordinary meeting on "Broadband Internet and sustainable development" in the frame of the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 24.

The meeting will be organized by the broadband communication commission in the interests of digital development under the sponsorship of Azerbaijan, the ICT ministry said.

The event is expected to discuss the current issues in the field of broadband Internet solutions, impact of broadband Internet on the social sphere, and further funding of broadband Internet development.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, European Commissioner for Digital Development Neely Kroes, Qatar's ICT Minister Hessa Sultan Al-Jaber, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization Francis Gurry and other representatives of organizations and UN officials will attend the meeting.

Azerbaijan ranks first among the CIS countries in terms of Internet penetration among individual users, according to "State of Broadband Report 2013". Azerbaijan ranks 66th out of 194 countries, with 54.2 percent of individual Internet users, according to the report.

In 2013, Azerbaijan's ICT sector grew by 14 percent, topping the average world indicator by almost two times.

The country is expecting to be fully covered with a broadband Internet, including mobile access until the end of 2017.The cost of the project is estimated at more than 450 million manat ($573 million).

The ultimate aim of the project is to provide the entire country including remote rural areas with high-speed Internet in a range of 10-100 Mbit / s and to bring the number of broadband Internet users up to 85 percent.

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