ROBERT KOCHARIAN: NECESSITY HAS ARISEN TO ADOPT NEW APPROACHES IN INOFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SECTOR DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT
Noyan Tapan
Apr 12 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 12, NOYAN TAPAN. During the April 12 meeting of
the Armenian president Robert Kocharian and the heads of over ten
companies of the Armenian IT sector, participants discussed issues
related to increasing the number of companies engaged in the IT
sector, preparing qualified employees, ensuring the participation of
Armenian IT companies in international exhibitions and creating the
opportunities for holding exhibitions in Armenia.
R. Kocharian said that the difficulties related to the previous
monopoly in the communication sector have been overcome, which will
be a good stimulus for further development of information technologies.
According to heads of IT companies, although a 20-30% growth is
registered in the sector annually, its share in economic, especially
export indices, is still not large, which is not in line with the
real potential of the IT sector.
Proposals on some issues discussed were made at the
meeting. Particularly, it was proposed to attract purpose credit
resources for increasing the number of IT companies, and to create
an educational center for preparing qualified engineers, at which
short-term training courses should be organized as well.
NT was informed from the RA president’s press service that R. Kocharian
said that the state is interested in rapid implementation of all
useful proposals. He underlined that a necessity has arisen to adopt
new approcahes in the IT sector development concept.