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September 5, 2022, Baku “Modern Information Society and Innovations” Public Union, the winner of the special grant competition announced by the State Support Agency for Non-Governmental Organizations of the Republic of Azerbaijan within the framework of the “Year of Shusha”, has started meetings with the relevant state bodies within the project. Thus, within the framework of the project “In order to support the process of returning to Shusha, researching the advanced international practice on citizen participation in the implementation of the “smart city” and “smart village” projects and organizing awareness work, the project was first implemented A meeting was held between the team and the management of the Agrarian Services Agency (Agency) under the Ministry of Agriculture. During the meeting, Anar Azimov, the deputy chairman of the Agency, gave detailed information about the implementation of the “smart village” concept in Agali village of Zangilan district, and answered questions about the initial impressions of the families who had already moved to the village regarding the adaptation to the smart village. In addition, discussions related to ensuring citizen participation in the implementation of the “smart city”/”smart village” project, adapting citizens to the new eco-system, increasing their digital literacy and increasing the knowledge and skills of the responsible employees of the executive bodies of villages and cities created on the basis of the relevant concept was conducted. Meetings with other interested parties of the “smart city”/”smart village” concept are also being continued in order to define the main components of the international experience to be studied within the project.
