DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT “AZERBAIJAN - 2020: OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE” Project 6. The development of information and communication technologies and ensuring transition to an information society The ensuring of transition to an information society, the establishment of an economy based on knowledge with the development of ICT, the expansion of the use of ICT in state and local government bodies, the development of electronic services, the development of the activities of the National Centre for Electronic Security, fully meeting society’s demand for information products and services and the strengthening of competitive and export-oriented ICT potential are priority tasks within the framework of the Concept. Appropriate measures will be taken to develop the space industry, and Azerbaijan will join the group of countries that have their own artificial satellites. The use of new technologies in the telecommunications network and the package satellite transmission of national radio and TV programmes will be arranged. With the implementation of the Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway project, it is planned to eliminate the digital difference between regional countries, provide access to cheap and high quality broadband Internet through the creation of a strong and sustainable information infrastructure, develop the e-commerce and e-market system, develop legislation in order to protect and ensure the security of participants in ecommerce deals, and speed up the country’s integration into global information space. In the coming years, due to the migration of many facilities protected from mutual interference between ICT and intellectual property and by intellectual property rights, a system will be created to manage digital rights based on the provision of services in the format of online television and one stop shops. Important indicators as the number of computers, telephones and mobile communication employees, the number of households that have access to the Internet and broadband communication services from home among all the households across the country, and the correlation between the number of pupils and computers allocated to them will improve, especially the level of digital preparedness will increase following the expansion of the use of ICT in the regions. Telephone and Internet tariffs will be optimized and the replacement of TDM telephone exchanges with IP telephone exchanges, the expansion of the use of Wi-Fi technology, the establishment of 4G CDMA stations and the organization of universal telecommunications and post services will be completed. Measures related to the formation of an electronic government stipulate the consistent and staged use of modern information-communication technologies, the implementation of safe information exchange within a single infrastructure, the provision of 20