” By 2030, we will bring the volume of exports of IT services to $ 5 billion " — Sherzod Shermatov

Uzbekistan can bring IT services exports to $ 5 billion per year by 2030. The minister of digital technologies Sherzod Shermatov told about this at the Digital Leadership Forum in Tashkent, according to the correspondent of “Darya”.Today, July 7, The International Forum Digital Leadership was held in Tashkent by the Ministry of digital technology. The event was attended by more than 300 BPO and IT outsourcing companies, foreign organizations, entrepreneurs and more than 20 speakers from all over the world.

At the opening of the Forum, we talked about the level of development of the IT sector in Uzbekistan, what conditions have been created for entrepreneurs working in this direction.

Sherzod Shermatov said that big plans for the development of the IT industry have been developed.

"IT services exports are now $ 300 million per year. We have big plans ahead. That is, by 2030 we want to bring this figure to $ 5 billion. True it's hard to believe. We didn't believe at first either. But now we are sure that we will succeed. Now in Uzbekistan there are about 60 higher education institutions in the IT sector itself. If a number of our projects are implemented, we will definitely achieve the intended goal,” the minister said.

The forum also spoke about the results achieved by IT-park. It was said that in 2019 the number of IT park residents was 147, by the current year the number had grown to 1,400. The volume of services provided by residents was 179.9 billion in 2017, increasing 28.3 times to 5.1 trillion at the end of 2022. The export balance grew by 82 times to $ 140 million.