ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Sept 21 2005

ARMENIA HAS TWO MAJOR SCENARIOS OF DEVELOPMENT OF IT SECTOR

YEREVAN, September 21. /ARKA/. Armenia has two major scenarios of the
development of IT sphere, Director of Munich Representative Office of
McKinsey&Company Andre Andonian said at the All-Armenian Forum
“Armenia 2020”. According to him, the first scenario implies
preservation of the status quo, “when we will do all we did
previously”. According to Andoyan, in this case Armenia will lose its
opportunities. The other is the scenario of high growth, when IT
sector in Armenia’s GDP, which currently makes 1.4%, increases four
times. “This will create over 6,000 jobs in Armenia by 2020 and will
provide over USD 500mln earnings”, Andoyan said. He pointed out that
for successful implementation of this scenario the RA Government
should modernize the educational system, should itself use
information technologies and provide condition for the sector to be
developed.
He said that it is important to create the system of electronic
government, attract to the IT sector the great actors of the world in
this sector, as well as creation of the special agency to conduct
marketing of this sphere. A.A. -0–