Information Technologies

Poll: crisis to cause gradual business decline in Armenian IT-sector:

YEREVAN, June 15. /ARKA/. The results of an on-line poll available on the ARKA-Telecom site show that 36.4% of the respondents believe the global financial and economic crisis will cause a gradual decline in the Armenian IT-sector.

On the other hand, 34% of the respondents believe the crisis will open up new opportunities for the IT-sector, 11.2% said that the crisis will not cause any changes on the Armenian market or cause a collapse of the country’s IT-sector. Also, 7.3% of the respondents found it difficult to say anything about possible impact of the crisis on the Armenian IT-sector.

The on-line poll was conducted March 14 to June 9 and involved 206 respondents.

On November 3, 2008, the ARKA News Agency launched a new project, www.teleсom.arka.am. The website was designed to report on-line information, analyses and interviews, views and comments by experts.

The ARKA News Agency launched its activities on May 1, 1996. P.T. –0--

15/06/2009 19:49



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Prometey Bank
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