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IT Skills Assessment in ArmeniaThe IT and high-technology sector is
 one of the fastest growing sectors in the Armenian economy.
 Since 2006, the sector, excluding Internet service
 providers, has grown with a CAGR of 22% reaching a total
 output of US$294 million in 2013. The number of companies
 operating in the sector is 380, the number of employees
 8,000. About 13% of the companies operate in the
 high-technology domain, while the rest are IT companies.
 One of the driving factors of sector growth was its
 attractiveness for foreign companies to establish branches
 in Armenia. The prime competitiveness factor was the
 availability of relatively cheap and competitive human
 resources in Armenia. Currently, Armenia seems to be on the
 verge of losing this competitive advantage. Due to the
 growing number of IT companies in Armenia, demand for IT
 specialists will continue to increase. According to
 conservative estimates, if the market and productivity
 continue to grow with an average rate of 18% and 1%
 respectively, the absorption potential of additional IT
 specialists will grow at a rate of 17% annually and reach
 15,000 by 2017. The sector is currently undergoing a major
 transformation: there is an increasing shift from the
 outsourcing model to the model of own product development
 and entrepreneurship in the sector. This model of growth
 requires a higher level of knowledge, new skills (such as
 sales and entrepreneurship skills), and entrepreneurial knowledge.
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Assisting engineering educators from developing countries with the design and implementation of online learningIn this paper the authors report on a course that was given in Cuba in 2010. The funding for the course came from the European Union, within the ALFA III program. The project was called US0+I; Universidad, Sociedad e Innovación and its aim was to facilitate the exchange of educational methodology and pedagogy between the partner countries that made up the US0+I consortium. Within this project the University of Boras was assigned the task of giving the above mentioned course about the use of Learning Management Systems (LMS) in Higher Education. This paper describes the design and implementation of the course, with emphasis on how it was adapted to meet the needs of lecturers in a developing country. It also analyzes the results of research data that was collected during the duration of the course. The main aim of the research was to more clearly define key questions and issues in the area of cross cultural use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) as part of a larger action research project concerning ICT and cross cultural equity. The basic question that drives this research project is: What technical, social, economic and cultural differences affect the implementation of LMS in developed as compared to developing countries?