Google and Belarus’ Hi-Tech Park (HTP) have agreed to jointly advance the park’s resident companies. The HTP Director Vsevolod Yanchevsky and Google’s Country Manager for New Markets in Central and Eastern Europe Goetz Trillhaas discussed cooperation in developing an ecosystem for Belarusian startups, supporting and advancing product companies. Google representatives told about their experience in cooperation with foreign technology parks. They represented new marketing tools for product companies, which help identify the demands for goods and services for certain market types and provide an opportunity to organize a search for markets outside the country.
Vsevolod Yanchevsky got the guests familiar with the new possibilities for foreign development centers due to Belarus’ recent Decree No. 8 “Concerning the development of digital economy”.
Google acquired the AlMatter, Belarusian IT company, a resident of the Hi-Tech Park, in August 2017. AIMatter is a developer of Fabby Look, a selfie transforming app, which has gained popularity worldwide.
Estonia’s former president Toomas Hendrik Ilves said at the recent Forbes 2018 CIO Summit that the results Estonia has accomplished in the field of information technologies were not because of technological advances but the configuration readiness of legislative and executive powers. He added that technology is everywhere and if you think of its power, it’s amazingly cheap. “Any government or state can get the technology. Not every government, however, has the courage to adopt a policy or the right kind of laws.” – Toomas Hendrik Ilves stressed.
The President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid introduced Estonia’s e-state achievements at the meeting with Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde on April 20. Kersti Kaljulaid said that people are the best engines of a digital state and the state only needs to provide support. The parties discussed the gender wage gap and agreed that it is a topic which people should be made more aware of. They also agreed that it has to be already considered in a globalizing world how future work will affect the societies.
In Estonia, people have always been the one to direct the development of e-state and digital society and the state only has to guarantee its safety, the President said. “And once you start, there’s no going back,” – she added.
Google, Belarus’ Hi-Tech Park discussed cooperation in developing an ecosystem for Belarusian startups
