AZG Armenian Daily #116, 24/06/2005
Science
INFORMATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOP IN ARMENIA IRREGULARLY
The First International Youth Conference on Informational technologies was
held in Yerevan on June 23-25. The conference was held in three universities
and was divided in three parts: informational technologies in social
sciences (the Yerevan State university), informational technologies in
Medicine and Biology (the Yerevan State Medical University), and
informational technologies in technical sciences (the Yerevan State
Polytechnic University). Harutyun Terzian, pro-rector of the Yerevan State
Polytechnic University, said that the decision to choose these three
universities was conditioned by the fact that these three directions develop
fast, as well as the influence of the informational technologies on that
process. Today, one can hardly find a sphere that wasn’t developed thanks to
the informational technologies. The organizers of the conference envisage to
include more spheres in the conference next year.
Armen Grigorian, Secretary of the Informational technologies Development and
Assistance Council at RA Prime Minister’s Office, expressed hope that the
conference, as well as the companies and the structures included in that,
will help arouse interest in the sphere and prepare more young specialists
of the international technologies. “The Informational technologies should
not be observed as a mere sphere, but as an instrument that influences the
development of all the spheres. We should use it to secure electronic
development in Armenia,” Armen Grigorian said. He said that today this
sphere doesn’t develop regularly in Armenia, stating that utilization of IT
in the spheres of education, art is on a rather low level. He added that
there is already a new counselor to RA Prime Minister who will coordinate
all the credit projects and deal with the creation of electronic management.
He said there are 4.000 specialists working in the IT sphere and if, their
number increases to 10.000, the annual profit from the sphere will amount to
1 billion.
By Tamar Minasian