PM: IT IS TIME FOR SOFTWARE PRODUCERS TO UNITE UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT

Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Attending a software forum, the Prime Minister N.Altankhuyag Monday briefed on his Government’s policies and planned projects on information technology and software industry. The first forum on the software industry has been organized by the Information technology, Post and Telecommunication Authority under auspices of the PM. Mr Altankhuyag noted that advancement of information technologies and software industry has become a part of everyday life and has a great impact on the government activities, private businesses and career successes. Now it is time for software producers to get united under one management and one solution in order to create a new wealth, abolishing an experiences of eking out a living between small projects, he said. The Mongolian engineers are now able to substitute each other and reach all the information needed, he went on. Within this possibility, the Government for reforms is ready to cooperate with "you under its policies, providing a loan, financing and investment". An intellectual property creator or owner should be given a chance to receive a loan in ransom of his/her new software work patent in a similar way of taking out a bank loan to a mineral license, he said.