BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 29. The
"Action Plan for Accelerating Digital Development for 2026–2028" in
Azerbaijan covers 58 initiatives in the areas of digitalization,
artificial intelligence, the innovation ecosystem, and
cybersecurity.


This was announced by the Minister of Digital Development and
Transport, Rashad Nabiyev, at the first meeting of the Digital
Development Council held under the chairmanship of First
Vice-President of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva.


Nabiyev briefed the First Vice-President on the work carried out
and the tasks ahead regarding the implementation of the above
action plan.


Touching upon the work carried out in the field of
digitalization, the Minister said that roadmaps had been prepared
with 40 state institutions, 13 of which had already been approved
or were at the approval stage.


Rashad Nabiyev also provided information on the establishment of
the National Data Center and emphasized that work continues on
migrating state information systems to the government cloud and
constructing a new data center. 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.


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.


Touching upon the development of the innovation ecosystem,
Rashad Nabiyev noted that work had begun on establishing the
Azerbaijan Resilience Cluster to bring together companies operating
in areas that strengthen technological sovereignty. He also
highlighted ongoing efforts in the field of cybersecurity, noting
that work continues on establishing the National Security
Operations Center, the National Cyber Incident Response Center, and
the Digital Forensics Center, as well as creating a unified
national cybersecurity platform to ensure operational information
exchange between the public and private sectors.