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    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE "OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE POLICY IMPORTANCE FOR INFORMATION SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT" OPENS IN YEREVAN

    Noyan Tapan
    Oct 31 2006

    YEREVAN, OCTOBER 31, NOYAN TAPAN. Exchange of the best international
    experience on the open source software (OSS) policy may contribute
    to the necessity for OSS introduction in Armenia. Larisa Minasyan,
    Director of the Open Society Institure Assistance Fund's (OSIAF)
    Armenia Office, said this at the opening of the two-day international
    conference "Open Source Software Policy Importance for Information
    Society Development." Experts from Armenia, Russia, Bulgaria,
    Macedonia, and Tadjikistan are participating in the conference,
    the main purpose of which is to introduce representaives of the
    Armenian government, civil society and IT industry to the OSS use
    and the policy implemented in this sector. Tagui Tumanyan, of the
    Center for Information Law and Policy (CILP), presented the results
    of a survey on usage of OSS conducted in Armenia's 14 ministries
    (of foreign affairs, education and science, finance and economy,
    and others) and universities (the American University of Armenia,
    Yerevan State University, and other big universities), which show a
    low level of OSS usage. Out of the programs implemented in Armenia
    with the assistance of donor organizations, T. Tumanyan indicated
    the UNDP-supported program "Regions", which created the opportunity
    to organize electronic dialog between government bodies and citizens
    in some Armenian marzes (provinces). Another program developed with
    the use of OSS is the computer translation program implemented
    with the assistance of the Soros Foundation. T. Tumanyan also
    attached importance to the creation of high-efficiency servers
    intended for scientific papers, which function with OSS usage in
    40 educational institutions. David Sandukhchyan, CILP Director,
    informed conference participants that the strategy of e-governance in
    Armenia, which was worked out for a year, has been submitted to the
    RA government. Foreign experts invited to take part in the conference
    will tell the participants about experience of OSS usage in state and
    local governments and educational institutions of their countries,
    about obstacles to OSS adoption and factors contributing to it. The
    conference is organized by the Internews Center for Information Law
    and Policy (CILP), the Open Society Institute Assistance Fund (OSIAF)
    and the organization Internet Society of Bulgaria.
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