YEREVAN, SEPTEMBER 12, NOYAN TAPAN - ARMENIANS TODAY. The RA Ministry of Diaspora and Hanguyc team on September 8 signed a memorandum, under which the sides will contribute to the creation of a pan-Armenian portal of national significance. Being aimed at preserving the Armenian identity, the portal will become an important tool for regulating Armenian information flows, Information and PR Department of the RA Ministry of Diaspora reported. The Minister of Diaspora Hranush Hakobian attached importance to the use of high technologies for unifying the Armenians scattered around world, and to the full use of the nation's potential for the purpose of strengthening the Homeland. In this respect she pointed out the necessity of certain programs, in particular those related to the use of Armenian in the Internet, making translations from other languages, as well as translations from Western Armenian into Eastern Armenian and vice versa. She said that the Armenian people can be informed about any project, news, problem through the Internet and expressed her satisfaction with the availability of Internet tools which enable to regulate information flows from Armenia to the Diaspora and in the opposite direction. "I am convinced that we will have an Armenian Google, but as the minister of Diaspora I dream of having an Armenian CNN," she noted, adding that the establishment of an Armenian search system will contribute to the creation of all-Armenian television. "It is time for our powerful high-tech organizations to unite and solve numerous problems related to preservation of the Armenian identity," she underlined, noting that 3rd forum ArmTech 2009 will be held in San Francisco on November 6-10, an event of great signifiance for the organization of experts' repatriation. The purpose of the memorandum is to unify the Armenians around Armenia's independent statehood by encouraging Homeland-Diaspora cooperation. The Ministry of Diaspora and Hanguyc team (www.hangyuc.am) will also help with the establishment of an Armenian Internet search system that will later assume the role of a national local regulator by uniting all Armenian websites into a single system and reducing the gradually increasing outflow of money in this sphere. The sides will also carry out work on the creation and active development of an Armenian Internet with Armenian contents, thanks to which Armenians living in Homeland and Diaspora will have the opportunity to be in constant contact via various means of communication and overcome the existing time, linguistic, distance and other barriers. This network may form a basis for a virtual "Armenian world" which will include a number of professional networks allowing to consolidate the intellectual, cultural and scientific potential of Armenians living in various countries and use the joint activities of the professional network's members for the welfare of the nation. The memorandum was signed by Head of the Ministry's Information and PR Department Tigran Harutyunian on behalf of the Ministry and by the team head Mher Abrahamian on behalf of Hanguyc.

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