Visitors keep their eyes on newly developed software programs with great interest.
Demonstrating about 270 kinds of creative computer programs developed by top-class universities and institutes, the annual software exhibition in Pyongyang impressed the visitors with rapidly developing software industry in the DPRK under the policy of attaching great importance to science. The 11th national computer program contest and exhibition was held between October 26 and November 11 in Pyongyang. Programs exhibited were developed each by 11 universities including Kim Il Sung University, Han Duk Su Light Industry University and seven organizations including the State Planning Commission, the Academy of Social Sciences , the Pyongyang Informatics Center and Kim Man Yu Hospital. The first place in the exhibition category was given to Sachol 1.0, a fish farming information system developed by Kim Il Sung University. These programs were developed in order to solve urgent problems, which now confront the construction of the DPRK s socialist economy.