FIRST DISCUSSION OF DRAFT STRATEGY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SECTOR DEVELOPMENT TO BE HELD IN NOVEMBER
Noyan Tapan
Aug 24, 2007
YEREVAN, AUGUST 24, NOYAN TAPAN. It is envisaged to hold the first
discussion of the new concept on Armenia’s IT sector in November of
this year. The document is being developed by the interdepartmental
working group set up in accordance with the RA president’s order
of July 3, 2007 and headed by the RA minister of trade and economic
development Nerses Yeritsian. NT correspondent was informed about it
by Bagrat Yengibarian, director of the Enterprise Incubator Foundation
(EIF), member of the above mentioned group.
To recap, the last cocept of developing Armenia’s IT industry was
adopted in 2001.
B. Yengiarian expressed an opinion that it would be correct if the
new concept addressed problems of formation of the information society
and technological zones. "It is important that we involve our society
in the development of the IT sector and improve the literacy of IT
use. And the development of the information society should create an
opportunity for extending the domestic market," he noted.
He attached importance to outlining the ways of creating technological
zones in the new concept of the IT sector’s development from the
point of view that they will become the respective infrastructure or
environment for implementation of the concept. "A technological zone
or technopark is an environment where certain conditions have been
created, and certain services, as well as tax and other privileges
are provided," the EIF director explained.
In his opinion, the approval of the concept on developing the IT sector
by the government will be followed by the appropriate legislative
proposals and by approval of the concept implementation schedule and
the financing program.