(ANSA) - TRIESTE, 29 GIU - Romania, the country which already
boasts broadband Internet speed above the EU average, could soon
start realising 10% of its GDP from the IT sector, according to
Teodor Blidarius, the President of the Association of workers in
software industry (Anis), as reported by Romania Insider.
According to the data of the National Bureau for the
statistics, the IT sector contributed 5.6% to Romania's GDP in
2015, while in the first quarter of 2016 the figure rose to
6.1%.
The IT services sector grew by 21% last year compared to 2014,
amounting to three billion euros. The growth of the sector
mainly relied on services export, with more than two billion
turnover in 2015 - 31% more than the year before.
The most important challenge of the local IT industry is
finding enough specialists to support the growing demand,
Blidarius said, underlining that the number of workers in the
sector will reach 90,000 by the end of the year. "If we had
120-140 thousand specialists today, they would all have a job",
he concluded. (ANSA).
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