SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
UNDP AND GOVERNMENT PRESENT “NICTS OF AZERBAIJAN AND ITS INITIAL IMPLEMENTATION” PROJECT
The project aims at preparing the National Information and Communication Technologies Strategy and implementing pilot projects, improving development processes towards information and communication technologies.
NICTS national coordinator, chairman of the State Students Admission Commission Maleyka Abbaszadeh stressed the significance of the decree of President Heydar Aliyev on adoption of the “National Information and Communication Strategy (2003-2012 ) for development of Azerbaijan”
She also extolled the successful work done towards the NICTS and reported on establishment of 11 regional information centers in cities and provinces of Azerbaijan.
UN resident-coordinator in Azerbaijan and UNDP representative Marco Borsotti highly rated the work done in Azerbaijan to successfully implement information technologies sector.
Minister of Communications and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan, academician Ali Abbasov pointed out to significance of information and communication technologies in Azerbaijan.
The event hinged on the “Portal of Azerbaijan Development”, textbooks “Use of Azerbaijani alphabet in electronic information space of Unicode standard”, “Regional Information centers in Azerbaijan.”