The activities of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation
in the field of ICT
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation attaches great importance to activities in the sphere of
Information and Communication Technologies.
The Azerbaijan Internet portal created by the Foundation in 2005 with a view to promoting
the nation’s millennial history, values and traditions throughout the world is second to none in
the country in terms of scope, wealth and universality of the materials used and technologies
applied. The portal encompasses the following sections: News, General Information, Nature,
History, Economics, Culture, Society, Public Administration, Azerbaijan in the World, The
Azerbaijani-Armenian Daghlyg Garabagh Conflict, Administrative Units and Maps. Along with
comprehensive scientific information, each section is augmented with numerous photos and
documents that substantially add value to the information provided. Meanwhile, each section is
divided into sub-sections. The Portal is offered in Azerbaijani, English and Russian. All in all,
the Azerbaijan Portal is very supportive in providing a complete, real and comprehensive idea
about the whole country.
In the meantime, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation is actively involved in drafting and
developing various websites and multimedia disks. As of the year of 2005, sites dedicated to
national leader Heydar Aliyev and Academician Zarifa Aliyeva were developed in Azerbaijani,
English and Russian, together with the website concerning the Heydar Aliyev Foundation.
Multimedia disks with life records of national leader Heydar Aliyev and prominent
ophthalmologist Zarifa Aliyeva were issued by the Foundation in 2008 to commemorate their
85
th anniversaries.
With constant attention towards physical, intellectual and spiritual health of the younger
generation, Young Intellectual and Ascent of Shirvanshahs table games were developed by the
Foundation in the year of 2010. Based on the cutting-edge game technologies, the games in
question are very conductive to the teenagers’ intellectual development and in the meantime
instructive in terms of fostering their interest towards the nation’s history and culture,
developing memory and encouraging artistic thinking and creative capacities.
According to the Agreement on Cooperation signed between the Heydar Aliyev
Foundation and UNDP on providing access to Information and Communication Technologies
for blind and visually impaired persons, an ICT class room for the blind and visually students at
the National Boarding School (2008) and regional IT centers for the people with physical
disabilities in Ganja, Nakhchyvan and Yevlakh cities (2010-2012) were created.
In 2012, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation presented “Mini information laboratory” to the
Azerbaijan Blind People’s Association. The laboratory includes a special computer desk,
computer sets, and programs to help blind and visually impaired people to get information.