Pan Armenian News

IT STATISTICS TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA

01.07.2005 07:37

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Starting with third quarter of 2005 the RA National
Statistical Service will hold IT statistics, Deputy Minister of Trade and
Economic Development Tigran Davtian stated during a press conference today.
The decision was taken during the sitting of the Council on Development of
Information Technologies under the RA Prime Minister. He noted that first of
all companies engaged in the sphere will be attacked to the `statistical
field’. T. Davtian expressed hope that till the end of the current year the
statistics will cover whole Armenia’s industry. When touching upon the
difficulties of the project T. Davtian noted that most problems were settled
by efforts of the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development, Enterprise
Incubator Foundation (EIF) and the RA National Statistical Service. `With
the assistance by EIF the lists of respondents were enlarged’, he noted. T.
Davtian also informed that the government requested the World Bank to
allocate extra funds for the investigation of the international experience
of holding statistics in the field under the conditions of developing
market. He said he does not expect any problems with taxes, as the IT sphere
is one of the most open spheres in the republic.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress