E-GOVERNMENT INTRODUCTION IN ARMENIA TO BE STARTED FROM FOREIGN
MINISTRY

YEREVAN, JANUARY 25. ARMINFO. A pilot project of e-government is being
carried out in Armenia’s Foreign Ministry under the EU IT. Am program,
says the program director Antony Jagus.

The project will be finished in a year. If successful this model will
be applied to the whole Armenian Government. The project envisions
creating a modern computer network, installing necessary equipment,
retraining FM employees. The best example of e-government in FM is the
issuance of e-visas. The next step is e-certificate of no previous
conviction for those seeking jobs abroad. This phase is to be carried
out together with Justice Ministry. For this purpose the computer
networks of the two ministries will be united. The FM’s experience
will be applied to the whole government structure. Officials from
different ministries are now being trained in England under the
program.

Jagus says that the Armenian authorities are actively promoting the
e-government introduction into the executive power. He hopes that the
demonstration of the pilot project results will stimulate the whole
process.

The other bloc of the IT.Am program envisions technically modernizing
the European Regional Institute of Information Technologies of
Armenia, creating a modern academic network and drafting a flexible IT
education program there to allow to train necessary e-government
specialists. This education system will timely react to changes on the
market and will be open for novelties in the sphere. The two blocs of
the program cost a total of 1.2 mln EUR.