Interview of David Young, Chairman of ABBYY Company’s Board of Directors, to Mediamax Agency and Itel.am portal

David Young is the Chairman of ABBYY Company’s Board of Directors, a Company, which has elaborated programs, such as Lingvo and FineReader. Today, 128 Lingvo dictionaries in 10 language directions function in 138 countries of the world, and each second scanner in the world is equipped by FineReader text recognition program.

David Young was born on June 3, 1968, in Yerevan. In 1992, he graduated from the Faculty of General and Applied Physics of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT). Fourth year student of MIPT, David founded his first company – BIT Software, which was later on renamed into ABBYY.

David Young is one of the founders of “Ayb” Club and Educational Foundation, which plans to set up Ayb Learning Hub (ALH) in Yerevan.

David Young agreed to talk to Mediamax about the prospects of IT in Armenia.

- Despite the fact that already for 10 years IT sphere has been considered a priority in Armenia, one can hardly describe the real results as impressive. And in the Global Economic Forum’s (GEF) recent Annual Global Report on Information Technologies, Armenia occupied 114th place among 134 countries in the “Networked Readiness Index”. What should be done to shift from words to actions and really develop IT in Armenia?

- Russia, by the way, occupied the 74th place in the given report, yielding to Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Baltic States. This, of course, is better than 114th place, but for a country, such as Russia, this is a shameful index. So, the problems are similar.

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