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Strategic plan of ICT development in industry drafted in Azerbaijan

4 November 2016 19:49 (UTC+04:00)
Strategic plan of ICT development in industry drafted in Azerbaijan

By Rashid Shirinov

The Commission on ICT of Azerbaijan Entrepreneurs’ Confederation has started preparing a strategic plan of ICT development in the country's industry, Chairman of the Commission Ismail Alakbarov said on November 3.

He told that the opportunity to offer Azerbaijani IT-products to the international market is an important component of this strategy.

The plan will specify short- and long-term targets of high-tech industry development in Azerbaijan, as well as the issues of export potential and legislative regulation’s development. The document will reflect the interests of both the state and private business.

The Commission also intends to prepare proposals to amend the legal regulation in the sphere of electronic commerce.

Today, there are wide-ranging reforms to develope the non-oil sector implementing in Azerbaijan. “The core of this process is a model based on science, knowledge and intelligence. That is why we, participants of this sector, rallied and established the Commission on ICT, which has become a leading platform,” said Alakbarov. The Commission is composed of largest leading IT-companies of the country, non-governmental organizations, and think tanks.

Overall, the sector of information technologies has been intensively developed in Azerbaijan over the past years. In this context, Azerbaijan considers the possibility of creating a national Association of companies operating in the field of ICT.

The remark was made on November 3 by Elchin Zeynalov, the Executive Director of the State Fund for Development of Information Technologies. He said that creation of such an association was initiated by the State Fund to increase the activity in ICT.

“Its creation was impossible earlier due to the lack of a mechanism of attracting foreign investment in this area. However, the Ministry of Economy has such a mechanism,” Zeynalov said.

The Association may also contribute to bringing foreign investors into Azerbaijani market. During his visit to Azerbaijan, the head of the Chinese Association of high-tech products manufacturers expressed interest in meeting with a similar Association in Azerbaijan.

“This suggests that the establishment of the Association promotes not only attracting investors into the country, but also expansion of our companies to other markets,” Zeynalov stressed.

Creation and developing of the e-Government system, expanding of the broadband internet services, launch of the telecommunication and low-orbit satellites, and many other are the evidence of Azerbaijan’s success in IT-sphere. The income to be obtained in the IT sector in Azerbaijan is expected to hit $9 billion by 2020.

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Rashid Shirinov is AzerNews’ staff journalist, follow him on Twitter: @RashidShirinov

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