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ArmNet 2013 was launched in Yerevan, Armenia on October 30. 

ArmNet 2013 series of IT events was announced to be held in Yerevan, in parallel with the pan-Armenian web-contest ArmNet Awards 2013.

The organizers of ArmNet 2013 project are Maeutica Branding Agency, Orange Armenia and ISOC Armenia (The Internet Society).

ArmNet 2013 is designed to evaluate the achievements of the Armenian sector of the Internet and contribute to its further development.

ArmNet 2013 presents a series of three events aimed at the development of information technologies and especially mobile technologies in the RA.

The first event of the project is ArmNet Awards 2013 Armenian website contest that aims to identify and award the best web resources of the Armenian sector of the Internet.

As a result of the contest, the best Armenian websites will be awarded ArmNet Awards 2013 prize in the following categories:

• Design and Usability
• Innovation
• Technological Development
• Best Content
• Breakthrough of the Year
• Social impact
• Grand Prix
• People’s Choice
• Special Prize from Orange

The website and mobile application registration will start on November 1, 2013 on www.armnetawards.am website. Jury of ArmNet Awards 2013 will examine and evaluate all websites submitted for the contest and choose the winners. On November 25 the shortlist of websites / mobile applications in each nomination category will be presented by Jury members.

In parallel with Jury’s work, an SMS-voting, provided and supervised by Nikita Mobile Company will be carried. Everyone will be able to vote for favorite websites, by sending an SMS to 1041 short number (cost per SMS: 50 AMD, VAT included), with a special code of participant website. It is allowed to vote only once for any website, but the number of sites for which subscribers can vote from one number is unlimited. This will define the winner in "People's Choice" category.
The competition results will be announced on November 30, at the official award ceremony.

“We plan to make ArmNet a more effective platform for participants, not only in the sense of making new business connections with representatives of global companies, but a platform for achieving vital knowledge in making their startups into real businesses. Very often genius business ideas do not reach their first investor. That’s why we are glad and proud that mentors from Startup Academy at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO will tell our participants about the essence of global startup ecosystem during a whole day,” said Haykuhi Taksildaryan, Maeutica Branding Agency director.

“Web sites are developed each year, offering the most advanced solutions for Internet connection. Today it is almost impossible to imagine our life without websites and mobile applications, many have forgotten about newspapers and even TV programs. Armenia has the greatest potential of young web developers, designers, photographers, who, in our opinion, are able to compete in international markets. The participation of Internet Society NGO to ArmNet project is inevitable and at the same time honorable. I want to wish a good luck to all ArmNet 2013 awards participants, regardless of whether or not they will win the prize, the important aspect is the participation,” said ISOC Armenia representative Gregory Saghyan.

“We are happy to support ArmNet which is already becoming a traditional place to summarize the Armenian year of internet developments, as well as meet and share the brightest ideas. Orange is an important player on the Armenian mobile market and the leader of mobile internet, and we are happy to contribute in this way to the development and promotion of the Armenian web content. We are happy to announce the launch of the fourth ArmNet with our partners Maeutica and ISOC,” said Aram Mkrtchyan, the Marketing Director of Orange Armenia.

International and local speakers will deliver their speeches during the annual IT conference, on November 30, within the scope of the ArmNet 2013 theme “Total mobilization – mobile technologies in everyday life.”

SKOLKOVO Startup Academy director Lawrence Wright, director of Fowler International LLC and SKOLKOVO Startup Academy professor Gary A. Fowler, founder and president of Drimmi Nikita Sherman and the CTO of Workle.ru Sergey Ponomarenko are among ArmNet conference speakers list.

For the first time in Armenia on November 29 ArmNet 2013 will host the Startup Day event. The mentors of Startup Academy at Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO Lawrence Wright (SKOLKOVO Startup Academy director) and Gary A. Fowler (Fowler International LLC director and SKOLKOVO Startup Academy professor) will lead workshops on “Startup Battle” and guide “Startup Battle” presenting special prize for the winner team.

Detailed information on the competition, conferences and Startup Day is available on ArmNet 2013 official website http://www.armnetawards.am/.