IT TECHNOLOGIES MAY PROMOTE ARMENIA’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Oct 10 2005

YEREVAN, October 10. /ARKA/. IT technologies may promote Armenia’s
economic development, Chairman of the Union of IT Enterprises
Hovhanes Avoyan told reporters. According to him, it requires a wider
application of IT in other economic sectors. Avoyan pointed out the
necessity of using all the potential of computers, while it is used
at the most primitive level in Armenia. “We mainly use games, and
accountancy programs in business,” he said. According to Avoyan, the
DigiTec 2005 exhibition held in Yerevan aroused keen interest in IT.

Avoyan pointed out that the exhibition displays solutions to computer
problems in various fields, particularly in healthcare.

Director of the Enterprises Incubator Foundation Bagrat Yengibaryan
said that this exhibition will occupy its worthy place among other
European and regional exhibitions and will help Armenian consumers
to find their way in diverse IT technologies.

Thirty IT organizations from Armenia and other countries participated
in the DigiTec 2005 exhibition. The exhibition was organized by the
Enterprises Incubator Foundation and Union of IT Enterprises.