Internet in Azerbaijan

In Azerbaijan , around 61.1% of the population used the internet in 2016 , which is higher than the global average of 51.7%. The top-level domain of Azerbaijan is .az .

development

The government is pursuing the development of the Internet in Azerbaijan from the point of view of a national strategy to promote it to an IT development center in the Caucasus region. The government of Azerbaijan is looking for foreign partners within the framework of this strategy to implement this concept. The goal was to achieve 85 percent internet coverage for the population in 2013. The International Telecommunication Union reports that a rate of 58.7 percent was achieved.

The Internet in Azerbaijan is largely free of systematic interference or blockades by the government. However, she takes rigid action against the political opposition, which she criticizes in online forums .

censorship

The authoritarian regime is following what some people call "networked authority" on the Internet. This is a middle ground between free access and censorship. To the outside world, the government is democratic; when it comes to the Internet, critics of the government face arrest and persecution.

Internet sites are temporarily shut down when there are protests against the government. The popular Internet site Ingur , for example, was blocked in 2013 because Anonymous put 1.7 gigabytes of data from the local secret service online. Other examples of temporary bans were found on the websites of Musavat, Azadliq, Bizim Yol, Turan News Agency and Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's Azerbaijan Service.

Two satirical sites were taken offline due to anti-government reports.

Facebook and Twitter are currently not censored. They are increasingly being used by opposition forces to express their views on the country. The number of users on Facebook increased from 700 thousand in December 2011 to one million in 2013. Most of these users were between 18 and 24 years old. 64% of users are male.

Web links

Commons : Internet in Azerbaijan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Internet Users by Country (2016) Internetlivestats.com (English). Last accessed on December 31, 2017
2. ↑ INTERNET USAGE STATISTICS The Internet Big Picture Internet World Stats. Last accessed on December 31, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b} Azerbaijan . OpenNet Initiative . June 30, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2011.
4. ↑ Number of Internet users to be increased to 85% in Azerbaijan . December 25, 2013. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 30, 2016. 
5. ^ Percentage of individuals using the Internet . 2013. Accessed December 14, 2014.
6. ↑ Azerbaijan - Country report - Freedom on the Net - 2013 (English)