YEREVAN, MAY 10, NOYAN TAPAN. No IT Month will be held in Armenia in 2007. Ara Hakobian, member of the Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) Board, advisor to the Armenian prime minister on IT issues, said this at the May 9 press conference. In his words, there is no need to repeat something already held. A. Hakobian said that currently information is being collected for organizing IT events in the future. Some events are being initiated by the Armenian government. "Taking last year's experience into account, we'd like these events to be coordinated and supported by the state," he noted, responding to a question of NT correspondent. The program of IT Month held in 2006 was approved at the sitting of the IT Development Support Council. The council was created in 2001 under a presidential decree. The Armenian prime minister is the chairman of the council. To recap, in 2006 over ten events: international conferences, exhibitions and programming contests took place within the framework of IT Month.

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