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SARAJEVO, May 10 (FENA) - The Ministry of Communications and Transport of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in cooperation with the association of software industry companies in BiH ‘Bit Alliance’, organized the second conference on the potentials of the software industry development in BiH.
The conference, opened by Minister of Communications and Transport of BiH, Ismir Jusko, is being held today in the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH in Sarajevo.
“We are currently lacking 6,000 workers in the IT sector in BiH. I think that it is impossible to find unemployed people in this sector. We started to work on concrete things, we formed the electronic communications sector, drafted the action plan for the implementation of the policy of the electronic communications sector, and we are already working on organizing workshops for the affirmation of young people in their third and fourth grades of secondary schools in order to reduce the hyper-production of certain professions while on the other hand we have a deficit in the IT sector,” said Jusko.
He pointed out that Timisoara for example, annually educates 1,200 IT experts, while Bosnia and Herzegovina only around 300 of them, and that the Ministry of Communications and Transport wants to brand Bosnia and Herzegovina for its transport infrastructure and communication and digital technologies.
"These young people are pioneers who, together with state institutions, will push the borders that have so far been insurmountable," the minister concluded.
Haris Memić, Chairman of the Steering Board of ‘Bit Alliance’, emphasized that today's event was organized with the goal of dialogue with state institutions and the state as a whole.
- We want to talk about the common potentials of the software industry, I say common because we, as an industry, can make little or no progress, and with the support of the state this progress can be significant. Bulgaria exported around 1 billion IT products last year in this sector, while BiH exported about 200 million euros. We think that this difference should not be so - said Memic.
General Manager of the Bit Alliance, Armin Talić said that there are some 300 IT companies in BiH, but the tax policies should be stimulating them, citing examples of Ireland or Romania where the IT has been relieved of burden of income tax.
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