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Board meeting was held at the Taxes Ministry in connection with fulfillment of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s decree on “Some measures for the organization of e-services provided by state bodies” signed on May 23, 2011, Taxes Ministry reported.

It was noted in the meeting that interesting novelties were expected during the coming years.

Alasgarov said at present e-service is widely applied in the international experience in order to achieve the improvement, simplification and making easy of the immediacy of the mutual relations between the state and society utilizing of the information and communication technologies.

E-service is also estimated as one of the effective means in prevention of corruption and ensuring the transparency, he said. E-service has great importance in increasing the efficiency and quality of the mutual relations between the state agencies and the citizens, ensuring the transparency, eradication of the factors conducive to corruption.

According to statistics of state portal E-Government, the popularity of e-services does not depend on their number. Thus, despite the small number of e-services in the Ministries of Justice and of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan (2-3 services), the number of users of these services amounted to 919 and 574 respectively, while the Ministries of Agriculture and of Environment & Natural Resources introduced respectively 15 and 16 e-services to which 42 and 38 citizens applied.

Samira Musayeva, head of the Legal Department of the Ministry of Taxes of Azerbaijan, has stated that today the first foreign citizen, engaged in business activities in Azerbaijan, has received mobile e-signature ASAN-Imza.

The first foreigner who received the mobile e-signature in Azerbaijan became the head of the Estonian-Azerbaijani Chamber of Commerce and president of B.EST Solutions Jan Krimpe.

The work is carried out within the "Cadastre - Real Estate Registration" project in Ganja and Sheki.

At present, the State Committee works on technical inventory of land and real property regardless of ownership.

By Order #02 from 10 June Defense Industry Minister Yavar Jamalov endorsed the Administrative Regulation of MDI services. The Regulation entered into force on 14 June.

In accordance with it in electronic (online form) the Ministry will accept applications and documents for obtaining special permission for export of goods, works, services, and intellectual property subjected to export inspection.

Isbyandiyar Aliyev, head of the Strategic Planning Department of the Ministry of Communications & IT of Azerbaijan, says that some of these services are not integrated into E-Government portal.

The MoH reports that in 2012 it carried out large-scale work in the health to digitize the domestic public healthcare sector.

E-card of health of citizens started work within E-Azerbaijan Program. Currently, the Ministry is applying e-programs on 10 registers of various diseases, a single register of staff, e-system of surveillance of infectious diseases, turnover of medicines, dispatch system of ambulance services.

E-government expert Alasgar Mammadli says that despite huge public resources allocated for electronisation of the country, state e-services are organized not at the due level.

The Ministry has reported that at the meeting Communication and Information Technologies Minister of Azerbaijan Ali Abbasov told of organization of relations between officials and citizens in new form with the use of information technologies. The decree enabled increase of transparency and efficiency of state bodies’ activity, eradication of corruption cases and possible bureaucratic obstacles.

According to local experts, the use of various electronic systems by separate state institutions poses some problems in the process of electronic document flow.

"Baku will host a large conference on electronic services in the field of customs in May," he said. "Views will be exchanged."

A plan to seal a digital cooperation framework between Azerbaijan and Senegal is in the offing as both countries look forward to sharing insights on how to better implement their digital transformation strategies.

During the recent World Telecommunication Development Conference (WTDC-25) in the Azerbaijani capital Baku, Senegal’s Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Alioune Sall, had discussions with the head of the Innovation and Digital Development Agency (IAAD) of Azerbaijan, Farid Osmanov.

Five new services are also available on portal E-Government. Services offers a possibility for submission e-applications as follows:

• for registration of copyright;
• for registration of objects of copyright;
• for registration of collections of information protected by copyright;
• for registration of collections of information protected by the right of special protection;
• for state registration of layout designs of integrated circuits.

The Fund reports that in the prospect the number of its e-services will grow from 20 to 25 options.

Thus, a new section called "Non-resident" has been added to e-government portal (www.e-gov.az). Initially, three government agencies the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, State Committee for Work with Diaspora, as well as State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs have placed their electronic services in "Non-resident section", the ministry said.

He said to ensure transparency in the society and freedom of media is one of the top priorities of the state.

The Ministry informs that installation of electronic kiosks for test operation was commenced in June in several agencies.

Mr. Mammadov said the total number of electronic services to be provided by these agencies is 300 units.

At present, eight agencies are connected to the e-government portal, which is scheduled to be commissioned by late 2011. This will be a key tool supporting public and private sector work with citizens and enterprises.

The meeting discussed an action plan for 2011-2012, within which it is planned to create a special section on e-services on official online resources.

By late this year, it is also planned to complete the necessary measures to ensure personal data and operations technical security carried out through these electronic services, as well as payment of fees in real time.