New book by Abdul Kagramanzadeh about communications and media

Baku/13.02.21/Turan: Scientist, communications worker, author of 10 monographs and more than 160 articles, international expert Abdul Kagramanzade published his, perhaps the most interesting book: "The relationship between communication and the media in Azerbaijan." The title is intriguing, because if we are talking about the media, it means that the new book will tell about everything that is important for society, since the media focuses on society with its various and changing concerns.

The talk is zombification through secret general chipping, adding our fantasies to the fears invented in the yellow press. The academic book Kagrammanzade explains, clearing the truth from the chaff:

- (The state) does not need to use zombies, it is enough competently, methodically and gradually to form the worldview of an ordinary person, through the relationship of a person and telecommunications, in order to achieve what it wants.

On another list, the author even lists Azerbaijani sites that are engaged in brainwashing without chipping.

The media is a social institution that acts as the main element of communication for collecting, processing and distributing messages, so necessary for the activities of the information community. Apparently, therefore, under the conditions of authoritarian regimes, the creation of a database about each person through ICT carries with it the danger of privacy and human rights in the country, and especially in the processes of elections, referendums and the fight against dissidents, writes A.Kagramanzade.

Reading the 613-page volume, you are convinced of the versatility of the knowledge it offers. Now we are forced to rise to online education, which, if it were not for the pandemic, would finally come in 20 years. There is a debate in society about the quality of education in the new conditions. Kagramanzade writes, "The experience of distance education in the world shows that the responsibility of the teacher online is much higher than with the traditional teaching method." Distance education is an interesting method and creative process, where teachers have various forms of communication with students, using group and individual work, involving passive students in the educational process, and much more.

The only propaganda trump card of the Azerbaijani government, which tells about the success in the fight against corruption, remains the system of ASAN XIDMET centers. They talk so much about it. However, ASAN XIDMET does not replace the real panacea for bureaucratic arbitrariness - Electronic Government (EG), - A.Kagramanzade writes. There is no round-the-clock electronic signature available to all in Azerbaijan, although the number of services that citizens can receive without leaving home, having a laptop and the Internet, is growing. For a real solution of numerous problems without contact with officials in the country, high-speed and very cheap Internet is needed, but the quality is falling, and the price is growing because provider services are monopolized.

Sometimes depressing incidents happen: in February 2021, the controller from the Sumgayit state-owned company Azersu "sang" to the author of this article the cost of replacing a damaged meter with a new one. He said that I would have to buy a device from them. Turning to the Internet, I found out that Azersu water meters must be replaced free of charge, and you can contact ASAN XIDMET in Sumgayit. In order not to face extortion, I came there. The girl, having found all my data in the electronic resource Azersu, suggested ... to contact the same Azersu with a "melodious" controller, since they may not have new meters soon. When I noticed that they were being extorted there, she understandably kept silent ... So in Azerbaijan, the surrogate of the Electronic Government created by the government is placed at the service of corrupt officials from state companies.

Recently, the President of the country ordered to transfer the transport monopoly companies of Azerbaijan to the subordination of the newly created Investment Holding. The goal is to achieve transparency and honesty in management, to end corruption through the collective management of people who do not work in these companies. The same method had been persistently suggested many years earlier by A. Kagramanzade. “The first thing that is required to eliminate corruption in the country is the presence of independent regulators outside state structures, as a guarantor of transparency of interconnection, mutual relations and mutual settlements, where the dark sides are apparently hidden…”, A. Kagramanzadeh reminds in the book.

Returning to the counters, this time completely different, I will cite one more passage in the book that is fundamental for the government if it really wants to improve the country, and does not engage in profanation. A. Kagramanzade writes, “... it is necessary to relieve officials of “control” over state-owned enterprises, so that they do not put them on their “counters,” and most importantly, so that it does not turn out that the “owner” of multibillion-dollar goods is determined in advance according to the “home scenario” ...

Here the author of the book hits the root. We hope that someday we will live to uproot this profound illness. —0—