The ID card represent a plastic card, which includes complete information about its owner and can be used in all spheres of public life.
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According to Hrant Khachatryan, radio engineer of Simotech company, if the project is approved, a telemedicine pilot will be launched in Armenia next year. The network will be comprised of 3 fixed (in Yerevan and regions) and 3 mobile nodes, equipped with technology and having satellite communication. The working group of Armenian-Russian Intergovernmental Commission on economic cooperation was involved in negotiations.
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“The electronic management program is a tool in the hands of the public to monitor us,” the prime minister says.
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Addressing the gathering, Tigran Sargsyan stated in part: “First of all, the new system will help enhance efficiency and productivity in government activities providing for transparency and proper control on the part of society which will get access to public governance. On the one hand, they will be allowed to keep track of decision-making processes and on the other hand, they will have a possibility to follow up and check the status of their letters, petitions, applications, licensing requests at any stage of processing.”
According to the press office of the Secretary of National Security Council, an inter-agency working group will elaborate a concept of introduction of e-governance within a three-year Armenia-EU program by September 2010.