"DIGITEC 2007" EXHIBITION-FORUM OPENS IN YEREVAN

Noyan Tapan
Oct 26, 2007

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 26, NOYAN TAPAN. The regular holding of DigiTech
exhibitions on information, communication and high technologies in
Yerevan shows that this sector of the Armenian economy is developing
at stable rates, the RA minister of trade and economic development
Nerses Yeritsian stated during the opening ceremony of "DidiTec 2007"
international exhibition-forum on October 26.

According to Karen Vardanian, executive director of the Union of
IT Enterprises of Armenia (UITE) – the event’s organizer, DigiTec
has become the biggest international high-tech exhibition in the
region. At the press conference dedicated to the opening of the
exhibition, he attached importance to participation of IBM company in
"DigiTec 2007", expressing a hope that this company will set up its
subsidiary in Armenia within a year, just like the companies National
Instruments (US) and Mitsubishi (Japan) did so after taking part in
"DigiTec 2006". The importance of displaying electronic services
by 7 Armenian departments at the pavilion "Electronic Government"
for the first time was also underlined.

During "DigiTec 2007" (www. digitec.am) held with the participation
of 43 companies, higher educational institutions and organizations,
a number of events, including "Business Solutions" forum-meeting,
"DigiLife" series of seminars, and "Electronic Government" forum
will be organized. At "DigiLife", Armavia airline will present its
experience of using information technologies in aviation business. In
the words of Levon Ghazarian, head of the airline’s IT unit, during
the exhibition an attempt will be made to find solutions for creation
of a single information field in Armenia’s aviation sector.

"DigiTec 2007" will continue its work on October 28.