Russian Ambassador Mikhail Bocharnikov has said that the trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Russia reaches $3 billion in 2021.

The development of the sphere of information and communication technologies (ICT) will lead to the growth of GDP and the non-oil sector of Azerbaijan, head of the department of the Institute of Information Technologies of ANAS, Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor Alovsat Aliyev told Trend.

President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on some measures to improve governance in the field of digitalization, innovation, high technologies and communications.

The coronavirus pandemic, which began in early 2020 in Azerbaijan, has radically changed the way of life in soceity and created different attitude to values. What did not seem important a few months ago has become very important in the new environment. The pandemic created the need for the rapid development of areas, which developed slowly until the recent past.

A meeting of the Working Group on Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Interdepartmental Center, operating under the Coordination Headquarters, created for the centralized solution of issues in the Azerbaijani territories liberated from the Armenian occupation, was held, Trend reports on June 18.

For the first time, a regional conference called Game Dev will be held in the gaming sector in Azerbaijan on March 6, 2021, Fidan Rustamli, Founder of Game Tech Azerbaijan, told Trend.

Azerbaijan’s Innovation Agency has announced the launch of the Online Startup School program, which includes over 30 fundamental topics with a team of experienced mentors and more than 30 educational materials in the Azerbaijani language, a source in the agency told Trend.

An online learning portal to improve the digital skills of the population and develop their knowledge on the use of information and communication technologies has been created in Azerbaijan, the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan told Trend.

The third innovation week "Innoweek" will be held in Azerbaijan on December 14-19, 2020, Trend reports with reference to InnoWeek.

The main topic of current discussion between Azerbaijani and Indian entrepreneurs within bilateral cooperation is the creation of a digital platform, Spokesperson for the Azerbaijani National Confederation of Entrepreneurs (Employers’) Ilhama Abdullayeva told Trend.