The impactful projects led by the “Internet Society Armenia Chapter” NGO brought ISF (Internet Society Foundation) Senior Program Manager Jen Beard and Associate Program Manager Rigdzi Collins to Armenia this summer. Over the course of three visits to the towns of Vanadzor and Spitak in Lori marz, the ISF team together with Igor Mkrtumyan, president of the NGO explored the ISOC Armenia chapter’s’s initiatives aimed at digital library management and the transformation of community library centers.
Recently, the ISOC Foundation shared their impressions of these programs on their official website.
Below is a translation of their article, titled: “How the ‘Internet Society Armenia’ NGO Enables Rural Libraries to Bridge the Digital Divide.”
