Friday, 9 October 2009
The IT Development Support Council (ITDSC) met, chaired by council head, RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan.
To start with, ITDSC Executive Secretary A. Grigoryan introduced the new council members. Then the meeting proceeded to the first agenda item entitled telecommunications, covering the main topics discussed at the ITT leaders’ informal meeting, which was held last July 4-5 in Dilijan town. In particular, there have been discussed issues bearing on international outreach, infrastructure- and network-related online services, as well as on the possibilities for State support to the development of national networks.
The head of government directed the Ministry of Economy to draft a time-table for the proposed actions in cooperation with the stakeholders.
Next, RA Minister of Economy Nerses Yeritsyan presented an action plan, referred to as Outreach Events, including a few functions hosted by the Synopsis Armenia training department, the RA President’s annual award, the gala ceremony for a newly established presidential award, organization of “ArmTech” forum, as well as a series of lectures, contests and events aimed at expanding and raising awareness of the IT sector in Armenia.
The Council has also discussed research- and education-related items, namely achieving enhanced consistency between graduate academic curricula and market demand, closer schooling-industry feedback etc.
RA Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan instructed the stakeholders to take up the above proposals with the Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Economy.
