| "HACK COVID-19" Global Virtual Hackathon - 10/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Azerbaijan |
| Global Virtual Hackathon competition was held to combine technological solutions to combat the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) on April 10-12, 2020 by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the United Nations Development Programme and the SUP.VC Acceleration Center. By decision of the jury, the team “Crisis Heroes” from Poland took the first (...) |
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| Launching the website www.evdeqal.az - 06/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Azerbaijan |
| The website www.evdeqal.az was launched jointly by the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan and the United Nations Development Programme providing users with online services in the categories of “education”, “delivery”, “medicine”, “food” and “entertainment”, as well as makes available detailed information about the challenges and opportunities during the perio (...) |
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| Free foreign TV channels - 01/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Azerbaijan |
| In order to support the campaign "Stay at home" 80 free foreign TV channels were added to the package of terrestrial open broadcasting by the Teleradio Production Association of the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies. As from April 1, multiprogram foreign television channels of various content in the standard DVB-T2 will be available for free in the northern, western, sout (...) |
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| Preventive measures for networks reliability - 01/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of the Republic of Azerbaijan |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Azerbaijan |
| As part of the preventive measures related to COVID-19 crisis, Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies cooperated with the leading telecom operators and service providers of the country for the current state of telecommunication networks, preparedness plans for emergency response, service resilience and effective organization of activities. |
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| Call Centers - 01/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Azerbaijan |
| In order to promptly receive and respond to citizens' appeals in regards with the situation, short telephone numbers were allocated for the Call Centers established in the relevant public and private institutions and their approval was provided in telecommunication networks. In addition other activities had been implemented: - Information has been collected on important IT specialists from teleco (...) |
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| Permission for leaving home - 01/04/2020 |
| Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies |
| TELECOM/ICT Policy Makers and Regulators | CIS countries | Azerbaijan |
| Short number “8103” was allocated in order to provide the service of obtaining permission to leave private houses and apartments by sending an SMS to a short number. This number was approved in telecommunication operators networks and SMS are provided for free of charge. |
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