RA MINISTRY OF ECONOMY HELD FORUM IN DILIJAN

RIA Oreanda
Dec 23 2008
Russia

Yerevan. OREANDA-NEWS . On 23 December 2008 was announced, that the
regular Meeting Forum of Information and Telecommunication Technologies
leaders without ties took place in Dilijan on December 6-7. These
Forums are organized by RA Ministry of Economy and Information
Technologies Association.

The main objective of the Forum was the discussion of three topical
for Armenian economy issues:

competitiveness of Armenian technological sphere during the
international financial crisis,

principles for building of electronic governance infrastructure
systems in Armenia,

tax and customs difficulties in the field of Information and
Telecommunication Technologies.

RA Minister of Economy Nerses Yeritsyan, the representatives from
RA Revenue Committee and Central Bank of Armenia, Sweden delegation
of the company Ericsson, Head of IT department of Georgian Ministry
of Finance Davit Tsekvava, representatives of Business environment
improvement USAID Georgian project and private companies, as well
as representatives from Armenian trade banks, appropriate state
institutions, NGOs and information and telecommunication sphere
participated at the meeting.

The participants discussed possible ways of overcoming the
international financial crisis and problems emerged during the
crisis. The company Ericsson presented its program on the e-governance
infrastructure system building. The exchange of experience on the
achievements of Electronic Trade of Georgias system and its development
in our country, as well as tax and customs difficulties in the field
and suggested arrangements for overcoming these difficulties were
among the topics discussed.