London-based Ernst & Young Company has released a report titled “The IT Industry in Belarus: 2017 and Beyond”, which evaluates the current state and growth prospects of the local information technology industry. The report contains 120 pages and besides detailed information about Belarus, its IT industry, and the Hi-Tech Park also analyzes the education system and the labor market, domestic business operation terms, and the infrastructure in Belarus. The report was released to the general public via the EY website on 15 August. EY Company is an internationally recognized leader in the area of auditing, taxation, transaction and advisory services.
According to Pavel Lashchenko, EY Company’s Managing Partner for Belarus, presenting the country’s rapidly developing IT industry before the international community was one of the goals of the report. Apart from that, EY experts analyzed what steps the government may take to convert Belarus into an IT country. EY experts believe that further rapid growth of the Belarus IT industry necessitates a remodeling of the national education system with a focus on training technical specialists such as engineers, mathematicians, and physicists.
