Azerbaijan accelerates digital transformation with new data centre plans—minister

Azerbaijan’s Minister of Digital Development and Transport, Rashad Nabiyev, outlined progress on the establishment of a National Data Centre and stressed that work is ongoing to migrate state information systems to the government cloud and construct a new data facility, during the inaugural meeting of the Digital Development Council of Azerbaijan held under the chairmanship of First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva.

Noting that the number of users of the "mygov" platform had increased from 2.7 million to 3.5 million over the past three months, while its range of services had been expanded, the Minister said that several applications had already been integrated into the platform and that services from seven more state applications would be made available to citizens by the end of the year, Caliber.Az reports via local media.

The Minister emphasized that artificial intelligence is one of the Action Plan’s key priorities. He said that the use of AI solutions is being expanded within "mygov" and other state institutions, and that a virtual citizen assistant has already been introduced.

By Vafa Guliyeva