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December 17, 2009
ACNIS Holds Closed Discussion on the Issue of the Security, Safety and
Vitality of the National Connection of Armenia
Yerevan–Armenian Center for National and International Studies
(ACNIS) today convened a closed seminar regarding to the issue of the
security, safety and vitality of the national Internet connection of
Armenia, with many experts on this issue in attendance, including
officials from the Armenian National Security Council, Ministry of
Defense and other professionals and experts from the security sphere.
Extending greetings to the participants, ACNIS Administrative
Director, PhD and Associate Professor Karapet Kalenchyan mentioned the
significance and timeliness of the issue, stating that ACNIS has many
times addressed the issue of information security in Armenia.
Presenting the main speaker, PhD, Associate Professor Karen
Matevosyan, Dr. Kalenchyan noted that from the time of the Soviet
Union, especially in the 1970s, Armenia was the first country that
built a telegraphic commutative center in Yerevan that included an
intercity automat using at that time by the mathematical machine of
the research institute of Yerevan, computers of this kind of model
ES-1030 and ES-1045. `The author of those commutative centers was
Karen Matevosyan who with his staff could invest and to hide almost
the whole territory of the Soviet Union in frames of the institute of
central connection of Yerevan branch. Now Matevosyan offers us a new
idea connected with the information network of safe work,’ mentioned
Kalenchyan.
In his speech Matevosyan emphasized the support of the information and
computer networks (nets) vitality in conditions of internal impacts
and presented his own methods of solution of the issue. `The
realization of the presented methods will provide hope of the national
net activity, information security and vitality but this kind of
important issue for Armenia is not possible to solve only with the
methods of trade mechanisms,’ emphasized the expert by adding that
positive results can be seen during 3-4 years if the state will
actively coordinate the function of normalizing the relations and the
cooperation of all participants.
The participants mostly agreed with Matevosyan’s point of view by
presenting proposals and emphasizing the seriousness of the issue.
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