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An extended session of the Caspian European ICT Club (one of the divisions of the Caspian-European Business Integration Club; CEIBC) held in Baku today has considered issues of information security in the process of introduction of e-government services.

Addressing to meeting Elmir Velizadeh, deputy communications minister of Azerbaijan, informed that up to date the country had already introduced more than 10 out of the 20 services envisaged by the State E-Government Development Program.

Read more: Azerbaijan develops single integrated platform for services within e-government

The Ministry of Communications & Information Technologies of Azerbaijan is to create single infrastructure based on high-speed Internet network within the framework of state program e-Government.

Isbandiyar Aliyev, the director of the Information Society Department of the Ministry of Communications & Information Technologies, says that network of high-speed Internet Azdatacom will be used as a base of single e-government infrastructure.

“Azdatacom will be used as basis of infrastructure, but if necessary there can also be involved additional fiber-optic lines,” Aliyev noted.

Read more: Azerbaijan invites bids for creation of e-government infrastructure

Azerbaijan is creating a single state information system, containing full information on citizens and enterprises in Azerbaijan.

Sybernet CEO Ilham Namazov has said that the Company jointly with the Ministry of Communications & Information Technologies is working on creation of state information system e-government within state program E-government.

"This will be an information portal, through which public and private entities, as well as citizens of the country, will be able to get information they need, carry out various operations, including banking ones. Officials of one ministry with access to classified information of the portal can, through its information system, to obtain the information they need from another ministry or agency. As a result, paper work will reduce much," he said.

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Within the framework of state project E-health Azerbaijan is creating a system to enable to buy medicines in drugstores on the basis of information of single database of the Ministry of Health.

Sybernet CEO Ilham Namazov informs that within the project it is created database and electronic medical history sheet of country’s citizens, containing the collection of information about the state of human health throughout his life, including personal history and diseases, the results of medical diagnostic tests, immunizations, prescribing medications, treatments, and other information generated in electronic form.

Read more: Information Technologies in Azerbaijan to replace prescription drugs

Today Azerbaijan is hosting TeliaSonera’s international conference “Mobile Communications & Social Development" organized by Azercell Telekom and the Caucasus University.

Within its framework international experts have remarked upon for uniting programs on e-government and m-government.

Ibrahim Kushchu, founder-director and associate professor of the International Consortium of Mobile Government, says that m-government is an analog of e-government in a more unique option.

Read more: Azerbaijan: International experts give voice for uniting e-government and m-government projects

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