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.

Azerbaijan has been named as the number 65 ranked country in the world on ITU's ICT Development Index 2017.

Azerbaijan and China discussed the expansion of cooperation in the ICT sphere, Azerbaijan’s Economy Ministry reported on May 16.

Azerbaijan and Russia are going to boost the development of ICT industry in both countries.

Azerbaijan considers the possibility of localizing the assembly of computer equipment from leading world manufacturers, a source in the IT-market of Azerbaijan told Trend on January 22.