IT And Innovation Conference In Armenia

IT AND INNOVATION CONFERENCE IN ARMENIA

Panorama.am
18:01 14/05/2008

"The transformation period in Armenia should be implemented as
soon as possible, afterwords we’ll manage to cut the gaps in the IT
field," said Nerses Yeritsyan, the minister of Economy, in the IT
and innovation conference started today.

According to him IT is not an ordinary field in Armenia, this is
a field linking other braches of industry together. Signifying the
creation of close relations with the private sector, he mentioned
that the establishment of technopark in Gyumri should be conducted
as soon as possible.

Besdies, it was announced that Microsoft proposed to draft
business-projects for all schools in Armenia.

Hence, the minister said that the representatives of the current
field should be active to start the negotiations with the company.

Note that the conference is organized by the initiative of the
RA Ministry of Economy, Microsoft Yerevan office, CAPS USAID, and
"Enterprises Incubator" foundation.