NO "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY MONTH" TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA THIS YEAR

Noyan Tapan
May 10 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. No IT Month will be held in Armenia
in 2007.

Ara Hakobian, member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Board,
advisor to the Armenian prime minister on IT issues, said this at
the May 9 press conference.

In his words, there is no need to repeat something already
held. A. Hakobian said that currently information is being collected
for organizing IT events in the future. Some events are being initiated
by the Armenian government.

"Taking last year’s experience into account, we’d like these events
to be coordinated and supported by the state," he noted, responding
to a question of NT correspondent.

The program of IT Month held in 2006 was approved at the sitting
of the IT Development Support Council. The council was created in
2001 under a presidential decree. The Armenian prime minister is the
chairman of the council.

To recap, in 2006 over ten events: international conferences,
exhibitions and programming contests took place within the framework
of IT Month.