Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

On April 25, 2019, the Republican Scientific-Practical Conference on the ​​​"International Girls in ICT Day" was held jointly by the Presidium of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, the State Committee for Family, Women and Children Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan and ANAS Institute of Information Technology.

The conference was attended by female scientists, pedagogues and specialists working in the field of ICT, scientific and educational institutions of Azerbaijan.

Opening the event, ANAS President, academician Akif Alizadeh said that, one of the important goals of the information society is to increase the role of women in information and communication technologies (ICT). Emphasizing that ICT, which is a technological platform of information society, has played an important role in ensuring women's rights and freedoms, ANAS President noted that, ICT, as well as scientific and technological phenomenon is effectively eliminate all forms of social inequalities in society.

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), noted the importance of increasing the role and special weight of women in the ICT sector today, highlighting the importance of such international organizations as UNESCO.

Noting that, the conference was held every year by the initiative of the ITU since the 2014 "International Girls in ICT Day" A.Alizadeh emphasized the importance of the event for the identification of scientific problems in this direction.

Emphasizing that, the gender issue is one of the main priorities of Azerbaijan's state policy, President of ANAS said that, this policy was put forward by national leader Heydar Aliyev and was successfully continued by AR President Ilham Aliyev:

"As a result of this policy, today Azerbaijani women are represented at the highest levels in science, education and medicine, business and civil society sectors, in literature, arts and sports."

He pointed out that, the number of women working in the field of science has been increasing year by year and that the role of women in academic technical professions, including those related to the ICT sector, has increased, and this tendency has been demonstrated in Azerbaijan. According to the academician, in the year 2018, 53% of technical workers in Azerbaijan were women and 47% were men.

Later, Chairman of the State Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Doctor of Science in Political Science, Professor Hijran Huseynova delivered a lecture on "The role of ICT in scientific creativity and profession of women" and said that, ICT gender equality, one of the key factors in expanding their capabilities.

The speaker underlined that, ICT provides a wide range of opportunities for the development of women's scientific creativity and the acquisition of different professions.

Laboratory Director of ANAS Institute of Control Systems, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Gulchin Abdullayeva delivered a report on "Women in ICT: overall picture in the international sphere and in the country". She spoke on first-ever use of Electronic Computing Machines, told about the first Small-Electronic Computing Machine in the former USSR and Europe.

Speaking about the role and prospects of ICT in the solution of gender problems, correspondent member of ANAS, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor Masuma Mammadova spoke on the factors determining women's involvement in ICT. M.Mammadova said that, 20-30% of 29 million qualified IT specialists in the ICT sector are women.

She said that 17.2% of IT-specialists in the European Union are women. She presented the percentage of female IT professionals in leading ICT companies, the number of students in higher education institutions in our country and the number of students studying on specialty groups, and the ranking of IT-graduates by gender. The scientist spoke about the reasons for the low share of women in the ICT sector, saying that currently, women have a great opportunity to enter the dynamic ICT sector.

Chairman of ANAS Women Council, Professor Mirzazadeh Rena delivered a paper on "Gender culture in ANAS and ICT, the role of women in the ICT sector in the country and the role and prospects of ICT in gender problems".

Senior researcher of ANAS Institute of Folklore, PhD in Philology Hikmat Guliyev spoke on "The role of communications in the development of social status of women in the cultural environment of Azerbaijan" and spoke on the relationship between the occurrence of communication means and changes in social and cultural spheres. He said that, the rise of women's social status in society is directly related to communication opportunities. According to him, each of the information revolutions in the development of humanity has been accompanied by strengthening women's position in society in one way or another.

Academician-Secretary of ANAS, Director of the Institute of Information Technology of ANAS, academician Rasim Alguliyev spoke on "Women and Personal Data Protection Problems" and spoke on the normative-legal basis of personal data protection and international challenges.

R.Alguliyev informed that, the development of ICT has led to more transparency of personal data on personal and family life of people, in the protection of personal data. He said that, in our country, the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies, the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan and other organizations are protecting personal data.

R.Alguliyev also stressed the need to collect individual genetic data in the corresponding electronic registers for the genetic compatibility of the parties in order to minimize the number of divorces, social and psychological problems that both parties might be faced, monitoring social networks to detect illegal disclosure of personal data.

Academician concluded his speech by calling women to become more entrepreneurial and active in the implementation of these proposals.

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