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E-government expert Alasgar Mammadli says that despite huge public resources allocated for electronisation of the country, state e-services are organized not at the due level.

Deputy communications minister Elmir Velizadeh informs that the bill will define the basic concepts and provisions of e-government system.

"The bill will define the terminology and the e-government regulation, e-service concept and principles of collection and provision of personal information to citizens," he stressed.

The Azerbaijani government is considering a smart city concept for new urban planning projects in the Karabakh region. President Ilham Aliyev said technology would be a key element in the rebuilding of territories in the region, which were liberated from Armenian occupation last year.

"Cities and villages to be established in the liberated areas should be based on the concept of a "smart-city" and "smart-village". It would be best if you planned this work now to use the world's most advanced technologies in urban planning and project implementation," President Aliyev said Tuesday in a virtual reception of the country's newly appointed minister of transport, communications and high technologies, President.Az reports.

He said that it is also considered appropriate to develop electronic systems for the real estate and land cadastre, create opportunity for the exchange of commercial information with other government agencies, which is reflected in the AVIS system of the ministry of taxes of Azerbaijan.

Party’s deputy chairman Razi Nurullayev called the parliamentarians to begin answering voters’ questions via the Internet.

"The Internet can serve as interlink between citizens and functionaries, and is able to eliminate virtually all the obstacles. Within E-Government Project the barrier between voters and MPs should be removed, and the voter must receive an answer from the MP to any his question. Social network platform FormSpring (www.formspring.com) can be used for that.

As countries in Europe loosen their grip on Russia, as a result of their invasion of Ukraine – Azerbaijan has stepped in to supply natural gas to the continent. The country is pioneering the concept of smart cities, that is run completely on renewable energy.

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The ICT Centre reports that within the framework of the State Program on Education System Computerization of Azerbaijan for 2008-12 it is planned this year to create a single national educational sphere and opportunities for quality education with wide application of information and communication technologies.

Priority directions of this year’s activity is computerization of the regional educational institutions by 1,500 computers given to schools in Baku and Sumgait in 2005, and the modernization of the computer park of the capital and Sumgait schools by providing them with 1,500 new computers.

The Ministry has reported that at the meeting Communication and Information Technologies Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Abbasov told of organization of relations between officials and citizens in new form with the use of information technologies. The decree enabled increase of transparency and efficiency of state bodies’ activity, eradication of corruption cases and possible bureaucratic obstacles.

Today in Baku at the International Conference on Telecommunications & IT deputy communications minister Elmir Velizadeh has informed that Azerbaijan’s legislation in the field of ICT needs to be improved, and particularly it concerns legislative regulation of e-government.

"The framework law used as the basis of drafted legislative acts in the field of ICT is the Law on Information (on access to information). On the basis of this law there are created new legislative acts aimed at regulating processes and procedures, implied by the e-government system," he noted.

The draft bill has been prepared and submitted to the government in accordance with paragraph 2.2 of the decree of the president of Azerbaijan dated February 5, 2013 "On approval of the "e-government" portal and measures of extension of electronic services", according to the report.

According to local experts, the use of various electronic systems by separate state institutions poses some problems in the process of electronic document flow.

Communication and Information Technologies Ministry of Azerbaijan has reported that Azerbaijani delegation was led by Communication and Information Technologies Minister Ali Abbasov.

According to the Ministry of Communications & IT, the devices will be ordered this year. By the end of 2012 provided for the purchase of these devices, the development of appropriate software and equipment of ambulance in Baku. Due to these cards the ambulance doctors will be able to read on-site electronic patient health cards and quickly draw conclusions and take actions.

The manager of Electronic Security Center of the Azerbaijan's ICT Ministry will travel to Israel next week to discuss aspects of cooperation in this regard.

The Information Technology Center at the Communications and High Technologies Ministry reports that the figure reached 22,845 as of September 1. Of the total number of issued EDS some 14,490 units were given to government agencies, 2,956 were issued to legal entities and 5,399 to citizens.

"In order to prevent current and future challenges in the implementation of e-services, a center for electronic signature certification closely integrated with the automated tax information system has been established under the Ministry of Taxes," Minister of Taxes Fazil Mammadov said on Thursday at a conference titled "ASAN-signature as a key to mobile government".

The Information Technology Centre of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Communications and High Technologies has launched a new platform of the "Electronic Government" mobile authentication portal - e-Gov.Identity, the centre told Trend.

The e-Gov.Identity platform, connected with the subscriber’s phone number, is a login and password, or e-signature used for an access to e-gov.az.

The acting chief of the Taxes Ministry Main Department of State Registration of Legal Entities & Economic Analysis, Zaur Fatizadeh, says that within the system online registration this July it was registered more than 1,200 individuals engaged in entrepreneurial activity without establishing a legal entity.

The changes to "Rules on mobile devices registration", ratified by Azerbaijan's Cabinet of Minister, was officially announced on April 14.

Under these changes registration of imported mobile devices with GSM standard will be available through the "E-government" portal now.

The statement came from Electronic Information Center of the Communication and Information Technology Ministry.

'The project is being considered by ministries and state agencies of the country. The work as part of the project will start after relevant rules and procedures for issuance of new generation passports are designed. The current identity cards in Azerbaijan indicate eye color, height and blood type while there are more than 30 types of biometric indicators in world practice.