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President Sargsyan handing an award to Craig Barrett.
Citing the need to attract the attention of Armenian youth towards information technologies, Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan has handed his 2009 award “for a contribution of global significance in the IT area” to an Intel man.
At a ceremony on Monday he described former CEO and Chairman of Intel Corporation’s Board Craig Barrett as “a person who has always been able to look ahead and insist that the future belongs to knowledge.”
“This Award is Armenia’s modest contribution to the global development of Information Technologies,” said Sargsyan, according to his press service, at a ceremony honoring the first recipient of the recently established presidential award.
“The foremost reason behind the establishment of this award was to attract the attention of the Armenian youth toward information technologies. We will encourage their studies and work in this area, we will search for and find new ways and means to do it. Today, in the presence of Mr. Barrett I am sending a message to our young people: The future belongs to those who are endowed with knowledge, kindness and creativity, who rely on intellectual powers and possess the art of finding solutions,” said Sargsyan.
In his speech Sargsyan described Barrett as a man who “has not limited himself to the IT area exclusively, but has been actively involved in the implementation of various national programs in the United States” and said he wishes for other businessmen to follow Barrett’s example.
The RA Presidential Award for the input of global significance in the area of Information Technologies was established by the July 6, 2009 decree of President Sargsyan and is aimed at the development in IT. The Award is represented by a Medal in gold and diamonds, which symbolizes Armenia and the area of Information Technologies, a Diploma and a Souvenir.
The prize awarding is funded according to the memorandum on cooperation signed between the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, Synopsis Armenia LLC and the sponsor.
The 2009 funding has been provided by Viva-Cell MTC through the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund.
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