Is Azerbaijan a Model for Smart Governance?

Dr. Jonathan Reichental
5 min readJan 6, 2023
Heydar Aliyev Centre, Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo: Alexander Popovkin, 2022

This past December, my plane touched down during the middle of the night to a misty and quiet Baku. I had arrived in the capital city of Azerbaijan, the land of fire. This was my first visit, and I was here to participate in an international forum that would help answer the question: is Azerbaijan a model for smart governance?

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Dr. Jonathan Reichental

Multiple award-winning technology and business leader. Best-selling author. Professor. Idea machine.