IT Sphere Has Registered An Increase By 20% Compared With Last Year

IT SPHERE HAS REGISTERED AN INCREASE BY 20% COMPARED WITH LAST YEAR

ARMENPRESS
June 19, 2009

YEREVAN, JUNE 19, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan
participated today in annual informational, telecommunication and
high technology "DigiTec Business" forum.

Technological solutions to banking and financial sectors, small and
medium-sized enterprises, tourism, trade and storing, construction
and transportation, public sector, cargo transportation, medical and
drug spheres are presented at the forum.

Governmental press service told Armenpress that Armenian Prime Minister
Tigran Sargsyan attached great importance to the forum saying that
it enables IT representative companies to show their new production
and services, as well as the progress and achievements registered in
a year, and customers are given the opportunity of choosing valuable
products and services for their business.

Armenian prime minister expressed his satisfaction that IT sphere even
in the conditions of the world crisis has registered an increase by 20%
compared with the last year. "Productivity increase is one of the best
ways of overcoming the crisis, and IT is one of the exclusive spheres
that presents proposals on increasing productivity and competitiveness
to economy branches",-said the head of Armenian government stressing
that the government is too a customer in this forum and is to serve
an example for businessmen with its choice.

The prime minister said that the government is inclined to apply modern
IT in all the links of the state system, as it faces the problem of
increasing the productivity as well. 25 companies and 1500 businessmen
took part in the forum.