ONEArmenia (1A), a for-purpose platform based in Yerevan and New York City, is partnering with Armenia’s first tablet factory ArmTab Technologies and the Orran benevolent family center to put the factory’s first 100 tablets into the hands of 100 Armenian teens.

Through crowdfunding, 1A hopes to unite the future generation of tablets with the future generation of young people.

When Vahan Chakarian, Founder and CEO of ArmTab Technologies, made the decision to include Armeniain the production of customized educational tablets several years ago through the American company called Minno, he recalled, “I told [my colleague] that Armenia was known as the ‘Silicon Valley’ of theSoviet Union, and to this day, has a strong IT sector with tremendous untapped talent.”

ArmTab is the first real instance of Armenia acting as an independent and competitive agent in the tablet industry. While the factory still receives hardware from foreign countries, its assembly and programming are now being done entirely in Armenia by ArmTab’s hand-picked staff of experts.

Rafayel Ghasabyan, ArmTab’s Managing Director, confirms that the factory was designed according to the highest international standards. During its infancy, he and his colleagues visited over 20 leadingfactories across the globe, selecting the best features from each and incorporating them into ArmTab’s design.

Organizers hope that partnering with 1A will help raise awareness of the significance of this turning point and what it means for the future.

Each tablet will be equipped with educational programs and Armenian-language resources and plansare in order to program digitized Armenian texts on the Android operating systems. All of this will ensure the tablets’ continued educational value, long after they have been distributed.