IfG.CC - The Potsdam eGovernment Competence Center

According to Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies, “E-appeal services for Marriage registration” of the Ministry of Justice has already been integrated to E-government portal.

According to APA-Economics, these are “Information, Informatization and protection of information”, “State Information systems and information reserves” draft laws.

The chief consultant of the MCIT Information Society Development Department, Etibar Umudov, says that certain technical work and installation of the server and other equipment are under way with the purpose of the mutual integration of different platforms of the governmental agencies.

During the presentation, Deputy Minister of Economic Development Niyazi Safarov said that over the last 8 years against the backdrop of the phenomenal pace of development the country registered an intense integration of information services to all sectors of the economy.

E-Government and e-Participation for sustainable development in Azerbaijan’s districts was the main topic of a training course organised in the city of Ganja by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan and Regional Development Public Union.

The course brought together over 70 participants from the government agencies, businesses and civil society from Ganja and surrounding districts, as well as international and local experts. They discussed the access of citizens to public services, employment opportunities, best practices in strengthening ICT capacity of civil servants in the regions, e-signature and e-document.

According to the minister, the system that will be used by non-governmental organizations in the elections is one component of e-government and is not subject to the Central Election Commission, respectively, has no legal force, but may help in studies of non-governmental and other public organizations in order to have an understanding about public opinion, is identical to exit-poll.

The e-voting was transferred for the coalition's usage as a result of the competition announced by the Centre of International Relations and Calculations of the Azerbaijani Communications and IT Ministry, a statement said.

The component "E-voting and public opinion" allows voters registered in a constituency to participate in e-voting on candidates for MPs.

The report from Communication and Information Technologies Ministry says that at the summit A. Abbasov told of allocation of about $3,5 bn by Azerbaijani government for ICT projects in the next 10 years.

Decisions will be taken in the nearest future about implementation of a number of projects as part of the Year of Information and Communication Technologies.

The statement came from Minister of Communication and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan Ali Abbasov speaking to journalists on Monday.

According to sources in the ministry, the session participants discussed the introduction of 'E-government'. Azerbaijan's Minister of Communication and Information Technologies Ali Abbasov stressed the need to accelerate the process of application of 'E-government' and maximal facilitation of the use of e-services by the population.

Isbandiyar Aliyev, head of the Strategic Planning Department of the Ministry of Communications & IT, the state-run agencies activated more than 150 e-services on e-government portal.

According to statistics provided by the portal, out of 417 approved state services the portal offers 179 services, and 109 services (26.1%) of them actively.

Fund’s chairman Salim Muslimov says that to date 6,025 insured on compulsory social insurance applied to the SSPF with e-applications and received relevant codes for submission of e-reports to the Fund on mandatory social insurance payments.

"We are actively cooperating with the Ministry of Communications & IT. We have prepared and approved the administrative regulations of 19 e-services, 10 of which are interactive and 9 are informative. Today, 442 SSPF managers having the signature right received electronic digital signatures (EOC) and actively use them," he noted.

The implementation of the State Program on E-Health Cards Application started in Azerbaijan from 5 September 2007.

According to the Center of Social Health and Reforms of the Ministry of Health of Azerbaijan, 580,000 e-cards were issued to parents of newborns and preschool children were issued within this state program.

Internet connection is more and more accessible in Azerbaijan due to large scale improvement in this segment.

The penetration rate of broadband internet was 50 percent till June current year, the report said.

The implementation of the program of actions to form e-government in Azerbaijan for 2010-2011 will promote expansion of the list of e-services, provided to the population.

The statement came from Deputy Minister of Communication and Information Technologies Elmir Velizade speaking to journalists on November 22.

Under the order, for the next three months the Cabinet Ministers is to prepare and submit to the President the description, specification and sample of the identification card of a citizen of Azerbaijan, to contain an electronic carrier (chip). The President ordered to place the data on the citizen’s domiciliary registration, his family status, fingerprints and other personal biometric indicators in the ID electronic carrier (chip).

The MCIT reports that establishment of educational classes on e-government and their uniting into a single system is expected in Baku and regions of the country in compliance with the Memo. The center will organize training courses to improve the skills of civil servants in the area of ICT and e-government, and creates an opportunity for the provision of distance education.

The information was presented at a meeting of experts of the State Labor Inspectorate Service under the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection and employers of the Absheron region and Binagadi district of Baku, the ministry said Sept. 4.

Ms. Yana Krimpe, the Founder of Azerbaijani IT company B.est Solutions, the developer and operator of “Asan Imza” mobile e-signature, participated at the Forum as a keynote speaker.