Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and his spouse Anna Hakobyan attended the official opening ceremony of the 23rd World Congress on Information Technology at K. Demirchyan Sports and Concert Complex. WCIT is the world’s largest IT event, which this year is being held in Yerevan. More than 2500 leaders, innovators, politicians, researchers, art figures and show business stars from 70 countries are in attendance.
Addressing the event, Prime Minister Pashinyan stated:
"We have provided broad tax benefits to technology startups in Armenia, which shall be exempt of income tax by 2023 and will only have to pay ten percent of profit tax. As a result, the IT sector grew nearly fivefold over the past seven years, boasting a sustained 20-25% annual growth. We have set the goal of seriously developing education, from pre-primary to graduate and postgraduate education. We say that education in our country should become a national way of life with the logic that one should never stop learning in our country, starting with the Prime Minister and ending with a computer operator. People’s educational and professional skills should be higher every other day in Armenia."
