The Association of Information Technology Enterprises of Ukraine identified current issues and trends in IT development in Ukraine.

At the end of April, the regular annual general meeting of the Association of Information Technology Enterprises of Ukraine (AITEU) took place.

Meeting participants heard a report on the Association's activities from Vladimir Tsoi, Chairman of the Board. The work of the APITU Board and Executive Administration was deemed satisfactory. Participants welcomed the Association's current (AMD, Bakotek, Lenovo, Sitronics, DKT) and associate (ABBYY, N-I-S, Sintegro, SerOL Distribution) members admitted during the reporting period.

The participants approved the main areas of work for the next two years, the regulations on associate membership in APITU, and decisions on the amount of contributions.

The meeting elected a new board of the Association. The board members include Valery Bazylenko (Asus), Anatoly Balyuk (DiaWest), Pavel Zhdanovich (Softprom), Alexander Radchenko (Navigator), Anzhelika Rubezhova (ELKO), Nikolai Fabro (Yug-Kontrakt), Vladimir Tsoi (MTI), Yuri Chubatyuk (Everest), and Dmitry Shimkiv (Microsoft).

Following the General Meeting, a conference entitled "The Status, Current Issues, and Development Trends of IT in Ukraine" was held. Presentations were made by representatives of the State Committee for Information Technologies (Vitalii Balyuk), consulting and research companies (Grigoriy Pavlotsky and Oleksandr Cherinko from Deloitte & Touche USC, Anton Shklyar and Olga Prochukhanova from GfK Ukraine), and the IT press (Evgeniy Shnurko from SoftPress Publishing House).

For more information, see http://apitu.org.ua/gm