Press Service Report of The Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies

A board meeting on current issues and their solutions was held in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies.

The Minister of Communications and IT Ali Abbasov in his opening speech said to the meeting that the country reached a very high level of social and economical development in result of foreign and domestic policies successfully and resolutely pursued by the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.

In the background of this development, dynamic development of information and communication technologies sector, rise in the volume of profits earned by this sector and its growing role in economy can be observed.

The Minister told the meeting about a huge volume of work, which have been implemented in recent years and resulted in increase of quality, extension of range of the services and modernization of the IT sector. He stressed that the projects, which are underway now, must be successfully accomplished in order to achieve higher results.

The following issues were discussed at the board meeting: works related to “AzDatakom” network, measures on introduction of “Digital Signature”, situation around execution of “E-government” program, issues related to introduction of “Digital TV”, current situation around launching the first telecommunication satellite into orbit, works implemented in the postal sphere, strengthening of on-the-spot control for insuring high quality of services rendered to the people.

At the meeting the heads of the associations and organizations delivered reports on the above-said issues and gave their opinions about future. Then, the associations and organizations were assigned tasks in order to achieve the set targets.

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