El auge tecnológico de Uzbekistán: Cómo la innovación en las TIC impulsa el crecimiento económico

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En este episodio de 'Business Line of Uzbekistan', exploramos cómo los sectores de tecnología y TIC del país se están expandiendo, creando empleos, atrayendo inversiones y posicionando a Uzbekistán como líder regional en innovación.

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00:00CREATING NEW BUSINESSES, GENERATING THOUSANDS OF NEW JOBS FOR YOUNG WORKERS

00:09AND GROWING INTERNATIONAL EXPORTS.

00:13Uzbekistan's tech and ICT sectors are surging.

00:17What's fueling it and how is it changing the country's economy?

00:23Hello and welcome to the programme.

00:25Boasting more than 9,700 companies and over 200,000 specialists,

00:33Uzbekistan's tech and ICT industries are developing fast.

00:38Total revenues reached 4.1 billion euros last year,

00:43with services now exported to around 90 countries.

00:47We've been to meet some of the businesses making it happen.

00:50From animated children's shows to big movies,

00:56all this has been created by United Soft,

01:00a company specialising in visual effects and computer-generated imagery.

01:06Based in Tashkent, some of its content has made it all the way to Bollywood.

01:11You see the growth of the company in terms of not just the number of the teammates that I have,

01:17but also the amount of projects and the scale of the projects that we're working on

01:22is, of course, really exciting.

01:24Our plan is to start working on the more bigger-scale projects, such as Hollywood.

01:31United Soft is a member of IT Park,

01:34which runs an ecosystem of support to develop business.

01:38With branches across Uzbekistan and representation abroad,

01:42it helps to create jobs for tech-savvy young workers

01:46and attract foreign companies,

01:48which already make up over 600 of its members.

01:53We provide tax and custom benefits.

01:56We also have visa benefits for them.

01:59We have big access to the talent pool.

02:02For example, in our country, we have 21 million working-age professionals,

02:06including 5 million English-speaking specialists.

02:09And we also have the programs for the local companies

02:12to expand their businesses internationally.

02:15We also provide incubation and acceleration programs for startups.

02:21TAS Vision, another IT Park member,

02:24deploys artificial intelligence and cloud-based technologies

02:28to analyze customers in retail stores,

02:31providing insights to drive up profits.

02:36Chak Zod started the company when he was just 19

02:39and is now operating in seven countries.

02:43We connect with the store's existing CCTV cameras

02:46and we provide our own AI camera

02:49and we collect customer data and goods data in real time.

02:52We are giving just data about the demographics and age agenda

02:56and also how many customers are coming in

02:59and in what zone they're spending time,

03:02what they're looking for

03:03and what about the touch points between goods and human.

03:09Technology is also transforming public services.

03:12We are witnessing significant changes in public services and e-government in Uzbekistan.

03:23For example, MyAdipalm, our system,

03:26will recognize your veins in your hand.

03:29We use it in the public transport, like in the metro,

03:32but we can use it in retail.

03:34It's more efficient and more secure.

03:36The growth of Uzbekistan's tech and ICT sectors

03:41is future-proofing its economy

03:43and positioning the country as a leading innovation hub in Central Asia.

03:48Let's get more now from Sherzod Shermatov,

03:56Minister of Digital Technologies, who's in Tashkent.

03:59So, Minister, why all this growth then in tech and ICT?

04:03It's because we had the bold vision of our president

04:05to make Uzbekistan an IT hub,

04:07which is creating the job opportunities,

04:09highly paid job opportunities for our use.

04:12And Uzbekistan had a young and growing population

04:14and we need to create the jobs within Uzbekistan.

04:18And how is this then driving sustainable growth in the country?

04:21Uzbekistan used to be mostly an agrarian country

04:24and we are now trying to focus more on new service sectors growth

04:30and we had the highest growth rates in the ICT-related services,

04:34in fintech and in all these new start-ups areas.

04:38So, this is an enabling growing field for our young talents

04:43to grow their ideas to make future successful start-ups.

04:46Minister, thanks for joining us.

04:49Well, that's all we have time for in this edition,

04:51but you can get more business news at euronews.com.

04:54Thanks for watching and bye for now.

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