Academician Rasim Alguliyev put forward a number of proposals aimed at the development of e-science

At the meeting of the Council for the Coordination of Scientific Research of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Academician-Secretary of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Director of ANAS Institute of Information Technology, academician Rasim Alguliyev delivered a report on the formation of electronic science in the Republic of Azerbaijan, its state and upcoming tasks. The noted on the state support to the formation of an information society in the country, the accelerated development of ICT and their application, along with other spheres, in science also led to the need to accelerate the formation of electronic science.

Rasim Alguliyev stressed that, under the leadership of AR President Ilham Aliyev there is a consistent and purposeful state policy aimed at the formation and development of e-Azerbaijan and its important component, e-science. He spoke about the official state documents that make up the conceptual and regulatory framework of measures that are implemented in this area.

Academician-Secretary also spoke about organizations supporting e-science both in Azerbaijan and internationally about the experience of countries of the world in the development of e-science.

Speaking about the capabilities of the AzScienceNet science and computer network, which is a technological platform for e-science, Rasim Alguliyev said that, this network at the highest level provides numerous Internet services to scientific institutions and organizations of ANAS, thereby performing the function of a national operator on scientific and educational networks as a member GEANT (European Research and Education Network) and partner of the EaPConnect project (regional research network in the Eastern Partnership countries).

Rasim Alguliyev spoke about the main indicators of e-science on ANAS, noted that the Academy of Sciences created a system of corporate e-mail, developed websites of the Council for the Coordination of Research and Scientific Councils on problems, carried out distance learning, online broadcasting of the Presidium meetings, as well as ElmTV.

The speaker reported that, during the last years about 20 thousand electronic researchers-researchers were trained at the Educational and Innovation Center of the institute headed by him, their activities are carried out by the Wiki-Center and the Wiki-groups on ANAS. Rasim Alguliyev also stressed that, work has been done to integrate the National GRID Center into international nuclear research centers, as well as to integrate the AzScienceNet network into the GEANT network infrastructure and to expand the links between the AzScienceNet network and Azerbaijan’s AzE Education Network. Academician also presented data on the number of Internet users on ANAS and the dynamics of the development of Internet traffic.

In conclusion, the speaker spoke about the upcoming tasks and problems in the field of the formation of e-science. According to him, information resources should be created for e-science, the network infrastructure of e-science should be expanded, a network of national e-libraries created, a national anti-plagiarism system developed, integration into international scientific bases ensured, scientific-theoretical problems of e-science studied. The speaker also noted that, important tasks that need to be accomplished are: accelerating integration into GEANT and the creation of virtual scientific societies, training in multidisciplinary specialties, aimed at applying ICT in various scientific fields, creating an intellectual-analytical system for scientometric indicators assessment, online -translation of meetings of dissertation councils and their electronic archiving, the creation of a regulatory framework in this area, the development of a National Strategy and the State stvennoj program for the development of e-science.

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