Belarus has unexpectedly occupied a leading position in information technology, considers scientific and technical website Phys.org referring to the data of Agence France-Presse. In Belarusian IT sector more than 38,000 people, and exports products and services is growing by 40-50% annually, promising this year to reach $ 800 million.

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Belarus has unexpectedly occupied a leading position in information technology, considers scientific and technical website Phys.org referring to the data of Agence France-Presse. In Belarusian IT sector more than 38,000 people, and exports products and services is growing by 40-50% annually, promising this year to reach $ 800 million.

According to journalists, to foster the growth of companies tax incentives in Belarus. Our it employees have relatively high wages and become a kind of elite in the country. The origins of talent worth looking back in the Soviet era, when Belarus was the most science-based Republic, possessed advanced production and highly qualified specialists. Even foreign programmers willing to move to Belarus for permanent work: 10% of employees of companies of the Park of high technologies are the Germans, the French, the British, the South Koreans.

the programmers consider themselves to be intellectuals who "should care about what is happening in the country." The following quote from one of the subscribers, who prefers to remain anonymous, cites AFP. According to the Agency, within 10 years the average salary in the IT sector in Belarus has increased from 236 to 2 000 dollars, and the country ceased to be a supplier of low-skilled workers.

"these people have well-paid job, the binding of wages to exchange rate of the dollar and comfortable offices. They live in a different reality compared to the rest of the Belarusians", — quotes Agency of one of the interlocutors.

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