The Rules came into effect on 18 January 2013. By his order Kerimov also instructed to develop an annual plan for the organization and performance of state e-services, as well as cost estimates for this.
Read more: Azerbaijan establishes Rules of quality audit of electronic state services
Decisions will be taken in the nearest future about implementation of a number of projects as part of the Year of Information and Communication Technologies.
The statement came from Minister of Communication and Information Technologies of Azerbaijan Ali Abbasov speaking to journalists on Monday.
Read more: 2013 to be important in ICT development of Azerbaijan
The Ministry of Communications & IT of Azerbaijan reports that at present the Center for Certification Services is working to ensure safe access to portal E-Government from smartphones and other mobile devices. In the 1st quarter of 2013 the citizens will be able to use mobile authentication and the use of services available on the portal.
Read more: Azerbaijan to start issuing mobile e-signatures in 1st quarter of 2013
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.
Read more: Azerbaijan’s Copyright Agency presents five e-services
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.
Read more: Azerbaijan activated 174 e-government services for 2012