Ahead of Kyrgyzstan

A press conference of the President of the Research Center “Economics and Value” Manuk Yergnyan was held at the International Press Center, which presented the main results of the “World report for 2017/18. On information technologies “. This report has been published annually for 9 years by the World Economic Forum and evaluates the competitiveness of information technologies 133 economies of the world. According to M. Ergnyana, the Center “Economics and Value” as a partner of the World Competitive Network was directly involved in the preparation of this report. As noted by M. Ergnyan, the report is based on the network readiness index, which reveals the strengths and weaknesses of the country and reflects the degree of its readiness to participate in the development of information and telecommunication technologies, as well as their use, which helps to increase the competitiveness of the country. Moreover, when determining the country’s network readiness index, three components are taken into account: the environment, which, in turn, includes an assessment of the market and political environment, infrastructure; readiness of individuals, business and government; The use of information and telecommunication technologies by individuals, business, government. According to the World Economic Forum, Sweden, Singapore and Denmark reached the best results in the aspect of network readiness. For the past three years, Denmark has been headed by the World Economic Forum, a rating list for IT. Armenia in the network readiness index took 101st place, improving the result of last year to 13 positions. Among the countries of the CIS of Armenia, it occupies far from the best positions, yielding to Azerbaijan (64), Kazakhstan (68), Russia (80), Ukraine (82) and even Georgia (93), ahead of only Tajikistan (109) and Kyrgyzstan). However, Armenia attracted attention to the development rate of the IT sphere. Among the CIS countries, positive dynamics is also registered in Kazakhstan. The rest of the countries in the rating list on information technologies have worsened their positions compared to last year. According to the World Economic Forum, in the field of information and telecommunication technologies of Armenia, the most significant advantages are: the deadlines for contracts (11th place), the number of divisions during the registration of business (32), the terms for its registration (52), tariffs of a fixed telephone number (39 ), monthly subscription to wired telephone number (23), a fee for connecting a fixed telephone number (45), cells for cellular communications (46), number of subscribers (54), tax rates (54). The most significant drawbacks were noted: the dominance of venture capital (129th place), the intensity of local competition (128), the freedom of the media (127), the quality of management schools (125), state purchases of high-tech goods (124), and the level of cluster development (122 ), independence of the judicial system (122) and others.