Event to be held in connection with World Telecommunication and Information Society Day
May 17 is celebrated as World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) in accordance with the decision adopted by the International Telecommunication Union in 2016.
This date is timed to the signing of the first International Telegraph Convention in 1865 and the creation of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in 1969.
This year’s theme of the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day is “Bridging the Standardization Gap”.
Today the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies will organize an event on the occasion of the holiday.
At the event, message from the Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union Houlin Zhao on the occasion of May 17 – World Telecommunication and Information Society Day will be presented to the attention of participants.
Presentations will be made on “The Role of Standardization in the Digital Transformation Environment” by Director of Azerbaijan Institute of Standardization (AZSTAND) Namig Tagiyev, “IT specialist training and certification” by Director of ICT Applying and Training Center Rauf Jabarov, “Standards as a means of protecting cybersecurity” by representative of the Electronic Security Center Laman Huseynzade.
The event will include the ceremony of awarding the winners of 13th Republican Olympiad in Informatics among university students, organized jointly by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Ministry of Education and the Institute of Information Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan.
The winners (I-IV places) will be awarded valuable prizes from companies Azercell Telecom and BestComp Group, as well as honorary certificates and diplomas of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies. In addition, 15 people, who have received training on the basis of ISO / IEC 27001: 2013 information security standard, will receive certificates.
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