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Lacking major natural resources Armenia should focus on IT industry,
Ripple Labs Inc.
YEREVAN, May 31. / ARKA /. Lacking major natural resources Armenia
should place focus on information technology development, Stefan
Thomas from Ripple Labs Inc., told ARKA. Stefan
Thomas has been invited to participate in the sixth "BarCamp Yerevan-
2014" informal gathering.
In this context, he highlighted the importance of events like
BarCamps, which represent the potential of Armenia's IT industry. He
also praised the organizers of this event saying the participating
young people are well informed.
About two thousand IT specialists, including programmers, bloggers,
online journalists, have gathered in Yerevan for the event.
Armenia's information technology industry has been growing 20 percent
on average over the last years. Some 380 IT firms are said to employ
over 10,000 mostly well-paid engineers and other specialists. Of them
159 are foreign-owned or act as representative offices of large
international companies.
The IT industry accounts today for 3.8 percent of the national GDP.
According to an IT development strategy, its turnover is to surge to
$1 billion by 2018.
BarCamp is a series of events initiated first in the U.S. Silicon
Valley in 2005. BarCamp events focuse on information technology,
global network and media. It is often called an unofficial meeting
with a series of informal presentations and reports.
The participants place various issues on the agenda and jot down the
topics of their reports and their schedules on a blackboard. The first
post-Soviet state to organize a BarCamp was Ukraine in 2007.
In February 2008, BarCamp Baltics took place in Riga, followed by
BarCamp Caucasus in Tbilisi in June 2008. The first BarCamp Yerevan
took place in 2009 April. -0-
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Ripple Labs Inc.
YEREVAN, May 31. / ARKA /. Lacking major natural resources Armenia
should place focus on information technology development, Stefan
Thomas from Ripple Labs Inc., told ARKA. Stefan
Thomas has been invited to participate in the sixth "BarCamp Yerevan-
2014" informal gathering.
In this context, he highlighted the importance of events like
BarCamps, which represent the potential of Armenia's IT industry. He
also praised the organizers of this event saying the participating
young people are well informed.
About two thousand IT specialists, including programmers, bloggers,
online journalists, have gathered in Yerevan for the event.
Armenia's information technology industry has been growing 20 percent
on average over the last years. Some 380 IT firms are said to employ
over 10,000 mostly well-paid engineers and other specialists. Of them
159 are foreign-owned or act as representative offices of large
international companies.
The IT industry accounts today for 3.8 percent of the national GDP.
According to an IT development strategy, its turnover is to surge to
$1 billion by 2018.
BarCamp is a series of events initiated first in the U.S. Silicon
Valley in 2005. BarCamp events focuse on information technology,
global network and media. It is often called an unofficial meeting
with a series of informal presentations and reports.
The participants place various issues on the agenda and jot down the
topics of their reports and their schedules on a blackboard. The first
post-Soviet state to organize a BarCamp was Ukraine in 2007.
In February 2008, BarCamp Baltics took place in Riga, followed by
BarCamp Caucasus in Tbilisi in June 2008. The first BarCamp Yerevan
took place in 2009 April. -0-
- See more at: http://arka.am/en/news/technology/lacking_major_natural_resources_armenia_should_foc us_on_it_industry_ripple_labs_inc/#sthash.SCtTrKv9.dpuf