ABOUT 50 FOREIGN COMPANIES TO PARTICIPATE IN "DIGITECH 2007" EXHIBITION-FORUM

Noyan Tapan
Oct 18 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 18, NOYAN TAPAN. About 50 foreign companies,
state and educational institutions will participate in the third
international exhibition-forum of information and communication
technologies "DigiTech 2007". NT correspondent was informed by Karen
Vardanian, the executive director of the Union of IT Enterprises of
Armenia (UITA) – the event’s organizer that 34 local companies and
universities and 12 foreign ones took part in the forum last year.

According to him, the number of participants in this year’s exhibition
would be greater if as previously, the event were held at K. Demirchian
Sport and Cultural Complex. Digitech 2007 will be held in one of the
halls (10/1 Ayasi Street) of the Hrazdan Fair in Yerevan. According
to the executive director of UITA, this circumstance highlights the
necessity of having a modern center for exhibition-forums in Armenia.

K. Vardanian attached importance to the fact that this year the
exhibition-forum will be held under the aegis of the Armenian prime
minsiter, which bears evidence of the attention that the Armenian
authorities pay to the information and communication sector.

He said that during DigiTech 2007, the forum-meeting "Business
Solutions", a series of seminars "DigiLife", and the forum "Electronic
Government" will be organized. While preparing for the forum-meeting
"Business Solutions", UITA conducted surveys of nearly 2 thousand
Armenian companies in order to find out what information and
communication technologies (ICT) solutions they need. Based on the
responses, meetings with respresentatives of ICT companies proposing
the appropriate solutions will be organized.

During the exhibition, the Armenian government will display electronic
governance sector’s services and programs at a special pavilion. Mika
Armenia Trading company – the main sponsor of the exhibition will
present the experience of using IT by Armavia. K. Vardanian also
underlined the importance of the first participation of IBM company
(without a pavilion) – one of the world’s IT sector leading companies
in DigiTech, which marks the entrance of IBM into the Armenian
market. Until now IBM was operating in the Armenian market through
its representatives.

According to the executive director of UITA, DigiTech 2007 will differ
from the exhibitions held in the previous years in that almost all
participants will present new IT production and services and that
only one company will present computer hardware.