A fun new trend in the constant stream of nonsense that is the Azerbaijani government’s Internet policy. (tl;dr the government is setting up new ways to control the Internet without appearing to control the Internet.) Keep those Azerbaijani kids off the Interwebz! Now we’re worried about the kids! Here are some news stories (some copy…
Azerbaijan enjoys internet freedom, president says BBC Monitoring International Reports – Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Excerpt from report by private Azerbaijani news agency Turan 6 November: President Ilham Aliyev has welcomed the participants in the Seventh Annual Internet Governance Forum under way in Baku [where the statement was apparently read out]. The forum has been…
Azeri-Press News Agency ( Azerbaijan ) – Tuesday, November 6, 2012 Nijat Mustafayev – APA-ECONOMICS. There is need for joint struggle to provide security in internet space and prevent cyber crime, Minister of Communications and IT Ali Abbasov said during his speech at VII Internet Governance Forum in Baku. The Minister spoke about rapid development…
Azeri opposition daily links new internet project to presidential election BBC Monitoring International Reports – Sunday, September 30, 2012 An influential Azerbaijani opposition newspaper has linked the launch of a new social networking website, www.butalife.com, to the 2013 presidential election. The owner of the website is Ilham Abduyev, brother-in-law of powerful Azerbaijani Emergencies Minister Kamaladdin…
Here are the results of analysis about attitudes toward gender issues in Azerbaijan. The upper left graph about women and work is particularly interesting. Women and men tend to agree on these items, except that men are more likely to believe that university education is more important for a boy than a girl and men…