Azerbaijan's technology consultant at Microsoft Azerbaijan, Gachay Mirzayev said, the main reason behind the growth is that cloud computing increases the efficiency of the enterprise and lessens the rental cost of the virtual space.
"For example, the monthly rent of one gigabyte of virtual cloud space in Windows Azure costs 0.07 cents in Azerbaijan," he added.
Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies told APA-Economics that the Korean experts will be in Baku by March 7, will meet with their Azerbaijani colleagues at the Ministry and discuss a number of issues regarding the project.
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"This will further enhance the ability to render services to the population," he said.
"The state agencies attach great importance to the development of electronic services," he said. As of 2013, some 735,000 people used 318 services available on the portal."
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By Order #1/1-01 Agency’s chairman Inam Karimov approved the new Rules of evaluation of organization and provision of e-services of public organizations. The Rules began operating since 1 February.
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The total number of users made 282,929. They used 820,555 e-services, according to the Information and Calculation center of the Ministry of Communication and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan.
The statistical data is provided beginning from December 2012.
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