Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec. 5
Trend:
The penetration level of mobile communication in Azerbaijan is 106 percent and about 80 percent of the country’s population accounts for Internet users, Ramin Guluzade, the country’s minister of transport, communications and high technologies, said in his speech at the second meeting of IT ministers of the ECO (Economic Cooperation Organization).
He said that Azerbaijan is interested in increasing the turnover of e-commerce, and therefore it is important to carry out joint work on mutual recognition of e-signatures, and this may be stipulated by the relevant agreement among the ECO member states.
“Azerbaijan is currently an initiator and participant of a number of important economic and infrastructure projects, including Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan, Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum pipelines and the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway,” he noted. “Azerbaijan is investing in the development of the East-West and the North-South corridors. The work being carried out in Azerbaijan within the framework of the International North-South Transport Corridor project has already been completed. We are closely cooperating with Iran on the Rasht-Astara railway’s construction project, including construction of a new international seaport in the Alyat settlement. This project is very significant for turning Azerbaijan into a major logistics transit hub.”
As for the ICT industry, the TASIM project, which aims to connect the biggest data exchange centers of Europe and Asia, is one of the largest projects in this sphere, the minister said.
“Today we held a meeting of the project’s participants and exchanged views on further steps on the project’s implementation,” the minister said.