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 Georgia’s 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.