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ARMENTEL AND MICROSOFT LAUNCHING A NEW EDUCATION PROGRAM
AZG Armenian Daily
04/06/2008
Information Technologies
ArmenTel CJSC company and Microsoft Corporation are starting a
new education program in Armenia, which supposes introduction of a
distance training and fast Internet at schools, director general of
CJSC ArmenTel Neicho Velichkov said. He said that the pilot program
is to be started in 60 Armenian schools.
The new system will be introduced in 10 schools till 1 September of the
current year, all the rest schools will use the new system till the end
of 2009 gradually. Velichkov also said that within the frames of the
program ArmenTel will give 2 computers to each of the 10 schools and
fast Internet communication ADSL Hi-Line, and Microsoft - technologies
of distance training and communication. He also added that Hi-Line
Internet will function by 100 times faster than Dial-up communication,
giving the unlimited access to Internet. Director general of ArmenTel
also said that Armenia occupies the 124th place in the world by the
level of students' accessibility to Internet at school, and fulfillment
of this program will make it possible to improve this indicator.
For his part, director of Armenian office of Microsoft, Grigor
Barsegyan, said that the company fulfilled similar programme in 6
schools of Syunik region of Armenia and in physics and mathematics
school of Yerevan and added that Microsoft is going to fulfill similar
programmes over the next 5 years. He also said that Internet service
will be given to schools free of charge over a year, than they will
pay for such a service.
Economy Minister Nerses Yeritsyan added that the initiative of these
two biggest world companies is a sample of cooperation between the
state and private sectors. He also said that starting of this programme
of ArmenTel and Microsoft is in line with the development programme
of the government according to which all the schools of Armenia will
be provided with interactive communication over two years.
AZG Armenian Daily
04/06/2008
Information Technologies
ArmenTel CJSC company and Microsoft Corporation are starting a
new education program in Armenia, which supposes introduction of a
distance training and fast Internet at schools, director general of
CJSC ArmenTel Neicho Velichkov said. He said that the pilot program
is to be started in 60 Armenian schools.
The new system will be introduced in 10 schools till 1 September of the
current year, all the rest schools will use the new system till the end
of 2009 gradually. Velichkov also said that within the frames of the
program ArmenTel will give 2 computers to each of the 10 schools and
fast Internet communication ADSL Hi-Line, and Microsoft - technologies
of distance training and communication. He also added that Hi-Line
Internet will function by 100 times faster than Dial-up communication,
giving the unlimited access to Internet. Director general of ArmenTel
also said that Armenia occupies the 124th place in the world by the
level of students' accessibility to Internet at school, and fulfillment
of this program will make it possible to improve this indicator.
For his part, director of Armenian office of Microsoft, Grigor
Barsegyan, said that the company fulfilled similar programme in 6
schools of Syunik region of Armenia and in physics and mathematics
school of Yerevan and added that Microsoft is going to fulfill similar
programmes over the next 5 years. He also said that Internet service
will be given to schools free of charge over a year, than they will
pay for such a service.
Economy Minister Nerses Yeritsyan added that the initiative of these
two biggest world companies is a sample of cooperation between the
state and private sectors. He also said that starting of this programme
of ArmenTel and Microsoft is in line with the development programme
of the government according to which all the schools of Armenia will
be provided with interactive communication over two years.