IT STATISTICS TO BE HELD IN ARMENIA

PanARMENIAN.Net - Starting with third quarter of 2005 the RA National Statistical Service will hold IT statistics, Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtian stated during a press conference today. The decision was taken during the sitting of the Council on Development of Information Technologies under the RA Prime Minister. He noted that first of all companies engaged in the sphere will be attacked to the "statistical field". T. Davtian expressed hope that till the end of the current year the statistics will cover whole Armenia's industry. When touching upon the difficulties of the project T. Davtian noted that most problems were settled by efforts of the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development, Enterprise Incubator Foundation (EIF) and the RA National Statistical Service. "With the assistance by EIF the lists of respondents were enlarged", he noted. T. Davtian also informed that the government requested the World Bank to allocate extra funds for the investigation of the international experience of holding statistics in the field under the conditions of developing market. He said he does not expect any problems with taxes, as the IT sphere is one of the most open spheres in the republic.