BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 10. Growth of the export-focused IT industry in Tajikistan may pick up if the government sets up an IT park based on its neighbors’ model, Trend reports, citing the StrategEast’s report Billion in the Distance: Central Asian IT Exports and Strategies for Growing Them.
The reports said that according to the statistics of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) the official Tajik IT exports stood at $180,000 in 2021, and therefore need further development.
The experts of StrategEast pointed out that developing of IT industry in Tajikistan will require improving existing foundations, attracting developers, forcing an industry upgrade, and feeding its continuing growth.
They specifically emphasized Tajikistan’s need to fix unreliable or slow Internet, especially in areas outside large cities, and introduce and maintain preferential IT taxation.
Among other steps, the country could undertake to develop its IT industry is to establish an entity responsible for IT development, be it an IT park or something else, the report said.
The StrategEast independent institution works to develop Eurasia’s digital economy, in collaboration with international financial institutions and Eurasian governments.
The StrategEast’s report prepared with the support of USAID (the United States Agency for International Development) and EBRD (the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) aims to examine the development of the export-oriented IT sector across Central Asian countries.