The Innovation Agency under the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies of Azerbaijan will support all participants in the innovation sphere, Azer Bayramov, Executive Director of the State Fund for the Development of Information Technologies, told Azerbaijan media.
StrategEast President Anatoly Motkin and CEO Michael Brodsky participated in Lennart Meri Conference 2019, which took place between May, 17 and May, 19 at ICDS-International Centre for Defence and Security in Tallinn.
On 15 May, the EU launched a new programme to support the digital economy and society in Armenia. Called EU4Digital, the programme also covers other countries in the Eastern Neighbourhood. In Armenia, it will be implemented in close cooperation with the country’s Ministry of Transport, Communication and Information Technologies.
Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed a decree on May 16 designating the Navoi region as a free economic zone (FEZ) for innovative, high-tech, export-oriented and import-substituting industries for the period until January 1, 2030, with the possibility of further extension.
The Fourth Central Asian Internet Governance Forum is taking place on 15 and 16 May 2019 in Tashkent. The event aims to provide a platform to discuss Internet governance policies in Central Asian countries.
Visa will launch Visa Token Services, a system for tokenization, in Azerbaijan this summer, said Cristina Doros, Senior Director, Head of Products for CIS & South-Eastern Europe at Visa.
Swedish furniture producer and seller IKEA has started testing an e-trade system. At this stage, registered ikea.lt consumers and members of the IKEA FAMILY loyalty program have the possibility to buy online, according to the Verslo Zinios business daily.
The European Union (EU) is launching a new program, EU4Digital, to support the digital economy in Georgia, announces the Ministry of Economy of Georgia.
On May 7, StrategEast presented the report “Changing economy, changing society” at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington.
Lithuania is due to sign an agreement with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on the establishment of incubators in Vilnius and Kaunas, the only in Central and Eastern Europe.