Tigran Sargsyan: EEU needs a special plan for digital sector

ArmInfo.  Projects that could  become a basis for Eurasian digital integration, were discussed by   Deputy prime Ministers of EEU, at the firs session of working group  on digital agenda implementation until the year of 2025. One of the  projects mentioned could be the EEU Digital Competence Center  under  Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC)

Tigran Sargsyan, the EEC Board Chairman and the leader of working  team, accentuated that the economic future of  EEU today depends on  digitalization. " We need to set digital markets and form own digital  platforms, " EEC Board Chairman mentioned. According to the  statistics, only the e-stores the services consumers  number grows  for 30% annually. More and more entities of traditional sectors go  for postindustrial models of business organization and interaction  with clients, industrial robots  and industries intellectual  management systems operation grows as well. We face new challenges.  If we do not respond those, we will stay back of global economy  leaders. 

The session participants were proposed the draft of main priorities  for EEU digital agenda implementation.  As the key vectors of EEU  digital integration it  was proposed to choose the  digital  transformation of economy sectors and cross-sector transformation  within the EEU. 

Summarizing the results of the meeting, Tigran Sargsyan mentioned  that discussions could be held, of course, about how the EEU  countries would integrate into hi tech sectors and how they will  develop the markets, securing the four freedoms principle, but it is  obvious that the basis for the future economy would be the digit. "  We need a special plan for that, " Sargsyan stated.