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EU helps Shirak region become IT centre of Armenia
Information technologies (IT) are growing rapidly in Armenia. The country’s government announced IT as one of their priorities and recently decided to establish a Ministry of High Technologies. The Armenian government has also adopted laws according to which newly created IT startups will be granted tax privileges until
In Armenia, almost everything is by and large centralised in the country’s capital of Yerevan. This means professionals from the country’s provinces usually need to leave their hometowns and move to Yerevan. This migration flow is destructive for towns and villages, and the country’s government is trying to address this situation.
The EU supports Armenia in the development of its IT sector through various projects and grants. One such project is “Boosting Technological Developments in Shirak Marz”, which is being implemented in Shirak, the poorest province of Armenia. In the framework of the project, some unemployed people and students aged passed a six-month training programme on various programming languages, followed by a coding “boot camp”. The latter was carried out in connection with local IT companies that mentored the trainees and assisted them with working on real projects. A special incubator la
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German Avagyan is a photographer who participated in joint Armenia-Turkey exhibitions before it was a trend and has always used his camera for documenting the difficult issues that became a wound for the society. In this regard, interviewing him is precious, not only in terms of photography but also in terms of understanding how photography can really change people's lives. We introduce this artist concerned with many issues like poverty, disability and war to our readers.
Can you briefly talk about yourself? Where are you from? How did you start taking photographs?
I was born in the USSR, in the family of a Soviet Army officer in Before I reached the age of majority, we had to move many times depending on which military base my father was serving in. When I was born, my father was serving in Georgia. Perhaps that is why my love towards Georgia was in me before I came into this world. I cannot explain this any other way
My father and my grandfather were from Kerchenj village, Shemakha region, Azerbaijan. Before there were about 40 Armenian villages in that region. Our ancestors moved there from Khoy, province of Iran, in My father found this date written on the stone of the oldest grave in the village cemetery.
After begging my father over and over for a camera, he