The World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT 2019) opens in Yerevan and will last three days from October 6 to 9

WCIT is the signature event of the World Information Technology & Services Alliance (WITSA). WITCA is the consortium of ICT associations of 83 countries, representing 90% of the  IT industry.  For 40 years, technology leaders—CEOs and investors, policy makers and government officials, academics and technologists—have joined in this annual event to discuss the state of the industry, where it is headed, and what it means for our future.

In previous years, WCIT was hosted by Brasília, Brazil’s capital city, Taipei and India’s Hayderabad.

Over 2,500 from 70 countries are participating in this year’s Congress. This year, WCIT will address The Power of Decentralization: Promise and Peril and explore how information and communications technology is transforming our lives for better and for worse, and its impact on profits and prosperity, safety and security, democracy and humanity.

The Congress is hosted by Armenia with the support and under the high patronage of the Government of the Republic of Armenia, and the main organizing body is the Union of Advanced Technology Enterprises (UATE).

GagruleLive, Wednesday 7:00 PM Harut Sassounian and Wally Sarkeesian discussion on newly created Pan Armenian Council of Western USA, and on a separate track work in progress for new Diaspora parliament, also we covered how PM Pashinyan manage day to day business in Armenia

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Armen Sahakyan holds a Master of Arts degree in International Relations and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Political Economy (summa cum laude, class valedictorian) from Bloomfield College.

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Sahakyan has taught Government Studies at his alma mater Bloomfield College as an adjunct professor. Additionally, he has worked at the World Bank Group, the Permanent Mission of Armenia to the United Nations, as well as the European Institute.

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The Armenian National Committee of America – Western Region is the largest and most influential nonpartisan Armenian American grassroots advocacy organization in the Western United States. Working in coordination with a network of offices, chapters, and supporters throughout the Western United States and affiliated organizations around the country, the ANCA-WR advances the concerns of the Armenian American community on a broad range of issues in pursuit of the Armenian Cause.

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Three-time Los Angeles Area Emmy® Award-winning journalist Peter Musurlian does it all: produces, shoots, reports, writes, narrates, and edits his own short-form and long-form stories, videos, and documentaries.

Buttressed by a USC J-School bachelor’s degree, three master’s degrees, nine months of [post-Bosnian War] U.S. Army overseas reporting experience, and over 30 years of plying-his-trade in more than 20 states & 17 countries, Musurlian has garnered [since 2002] 10 Los Angeles Area Emmy® nominations, as well as 24 Golden Mikes, awarded by the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California. (rtna.org).

Musurlian has also been nominated 10 times, for his documentary work, by the Los Angeles Press Club, which recognizes journalistic excellence in the second largest media market in the USA. (lapressclub.org).

Most recently Musurlian won his third Los Angeles Area Emmy on July 27, 2019, at the Academy of Television Arts & Science’s Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.

His 52-minute documentary, Holocaust Soliloquy, ran on Los Angeles PBS station KLCS in May 2018, winning the Emmy in the Independent Programming Category.

Earlier this year, Musurlian, who shot, wrote, and edited the entire film, won a First Place Los Angeles Press Club Award for Best Videography, beating out two entries from the powerhouse KCET team.

The documentary can be found on the website: www.peterfischl.com and a link to Musurlian’s Emmy speech has been uploaded to YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WRYgRuKP9E

Musurlian won his first Emmy in 2012, for a 30-minute (solo) documentary, Burbank’s African Sister City, which he shot, wrote, narrated, and edited. In 2016, Musurlian, and a team from The Burbank Channel, won Emmys for their various roles in the production of the Mayor’s State-of-the-City video.

Musurlian, who grew up in Torrance and received his bachelor’s degree from USC, and master’s degrees from Baylor University, American University, and the University of Redlands, has had 10 Emmy nominations since 2002 and has garnered 24 Golden Mikes from the Radio & Television News Association of Southern California.

Growing up, Musurlian attended St. James Armenian Church. In 1983, he interned at ABC News in Washington, DC, as part of the Armenian Assembly Intern Program. And, for several years this decade, he sat on the Board of Directors of the Armenian National Committee, Western Region.

Among more than 20 Armenian-themed projects Musurlian has produced over the last 20 years are: The Long Journey from the NFL to Armenia (2006), Historic Armenia (2015), and The 100-Year-Old Survivor (2015), which all ran on KLCS in Los Angeles. You can see them all at: www.globalistfilms.com.

Among certain members of the Armenian Community, Musurlian is perhaps best known for his hard-hitting coverage of Members of Congress Jean Schmidt of Ohio, Steve Cohen of Tennessee, and California Assemblyman Mike Gatto, who all, to varying degrees, exhibited hostility toward Armenians and/or Armenian issues. 

A former congressional aide, Musurlian has worked at television stations in Montana, Texas, Burbank, and Washington, DC. He also served for eight months as a U.S Army broadcast journalist in Central Europe in the late 1990s, where he met his Hungarian wife, Szilvia. They couple just moved to Falls Church, Virginia, where they only child, June, will begin high school in September.

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