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Alina Hovhannisyan

Armenia, Netherlands discuss new opportunities for cooperation in  technological field

Armenia, Netherlands discuss new opportunities for cooperation in  technological field

ArmInfo.Armenia and the Netherlands discussed new opportunities for cooperation in the technological field and the implementation of agreements within the  framework of cooperation in this direction. This was reported by the  press service of the Ministry of High- Tech Industry, referring to  the results of the meeting between head of the department Robert  Khachatryan and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the  Kingdom of the Netherlands to Armenia Nicholas Schermers.

According to the source, Robert Khachatryan presented to the guest  the Ministry's steps towards digitalization, noting that the  government attaches particular importance to the development of this  direction and the widespread use of digital technologies in various  sectors of the economy. The minister also said that a digitalization  strategy for 2021-2025 had been developed and adopted.

Nicholas Schermers, in turn, presented the Dutch experience in the  field of digitalization, the E- commercialization (electronic  commerce) program, which was implemented in Armenia in 2021 by the  Embassy of the Netherlands in Armenia and the  Netherlands Enterprise  Agency (RVO). He stressed that the program aims to identify the  potential and opportunities of the Armenian ICT sector.

It is reported that the parties discussed the presented programs and  agreed to hold a working meeting in the near future in order to more  substantively discuss the issues raised and approaches to  cooperation.