PRESENTATION OF “WORLD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES 2005-2006” REPORT TO TAKE PLACE ON APRIL 3 IN YEREVAN

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 31 2006

YEREVAN, March 31. /ARKA/. Presentation of the “World Information
Technologies 2005-2006” (WIT) report of the World Economic Forum will
take place in Yerevan on April 3. According to the information of the
“Economy and Values” research center, Armenia will be presented in
this WIT report for the first time.

According to the press release, data on Armenia as well as approaches
to stimulation of competency in the IT-sphere within the framework
of the “Competitive Armenian Private Sector Program” of the USAID
will be presented during the event.

Week and strong sides of national sector of information technologies
are studied in the WIT report as well as “Networked Readliness Index”
of 115 countries are presented in it, the aim of which is to estimate
and define conditions of use of information technologies. S.P.-0–