YEREVAN. – Armenia must take advantage of the creativity of its people to further advance the development of the IT sector, John Heffern, the US Ambassador to Armenia, said at the opening of the DigiTec Business annual IT forum in Yerevan on June 20.
He told he was pleased to see the US companies attend, who are “pleased and proud” to be partners with their Armenian peers. However, there are certain tasks Armenia needs to do to take the already booming sector to the next level.
One of them, which the companies frequently report to him, Heffern told, is to take advantage of the Armenian people’s creativity and innovation in the area of science and technology and expand the number of trained IT engineers to take over new jobs.
“That’s what we are trying to assist, by school courses and workshops”, he told.
He reminded that the annual Armenian IT and high-tech forum, ArmTech, will be held in New York City in the fall of 2014.