| March/April
2005 Updates First ICT trade
show a success By
Lkhagvasuren Ariunaa in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, March 2005 The
first ever exhibition of ICT products and services was held at the Academy of
Management on 23 March 2005. It was an initiative of MIDAS/MONITA NGO (http://www.ict.mn/midas).
The main purpose of this event was to expose the ICT sector, its products and
services to decision makers, who are studying at the academy. The Academy of Management
has a staff of about 50 lecturers and over 2,000 students enrolled for various
full-time, part-time, distance-education, and evening courses. Nine
ICT companies exhibited their products at the event. The products included accounting
and financial management, insurance, banking, and customs' systems. The other
items on show included e-office tools, web-page development software, computer
magazines and newspapers, simplified computer manuals published in Mongolian.
The trade show enabled students of the academy to establish contacts
with the ICT companies. The event also led to the Academy of Management proposing
to conduct special course on risk management. This
event is one of a series of exhibitions, organized by MIDAS/MONITA NGO. The previous
exhibitions were on "Software and applications developed by Mongolian companies
- 2000, 2004", "Hardware exhibition-2004", and "Tourism and
ICT". |