A conference entitled “Innovative Development and Economic Reforms: the Role of Intellectual Property and Technology Commercialization” was held on February 11.

The fourth meeting of the member countries of the Cooperation Council of the Turkic Speaking States on information and communication technologies (ICT) is taking place in Kazakhstan’s Almaty city, a source in the Azerbaijani IT market told Trend Jan. 30.

The year 2018 was marked by stabilization of Azerbaijan’s ICT market after stagnation a year earlier.

Azerbaijani Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, Russian Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, Turkish Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure and Iranian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology have agreed to establish a consortium for further development of information and communication technologies, Azerbaijani Minister of Transport, Communications and High Technologies Ramin Guluzade said.

Information and communication technologies play an important role in formation of human capital, Deputy Education Minister of Azerbaijan Firudin Gurbanov said at a ceremony of presentation of winners of the Microsoft Imagine Cup Azerbaijan contest on May 15.

A new innovation center of the High Tech Park LLC under Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies will be ready and put into operation before the end of 2019, the LLC Director Tural Karimli said when addressing the Microsoft Innovation Forum in Baku on February 28.

A single call center support service “155,” uniting a number of structural units of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan, will be applied in the country since January 2018, a source close to the project told Trend on December 12.

Economic growth of the countries is being driven by a number of factors including technological progress.

Iranian ICT minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi has called for expansion of cooperation with Azerbaijan in the sphere of startups.

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev has today received Minister of Information and Communications Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi.