Employees work at Uzbekistan’s state-run IT Park in the capital Tashkent on April 4, 2022. Hit by regular power cuts and with popular sites like Twitter and TikTok blocked, the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan hardly seems a likely candidate for a tech boom. But with Russia's invasion of Ukraine driving an exodus of IT specialists to former parts of the Soviet Union, authorities in Uzbekistan are hoping to speed up plans to modernise an economy best-known for its vast production of cotton. — AFP
TASHKENT: Hit by regular power cuts and with popular sites like Twitter and TikTok blocked, the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan hardly seems a likely candidate for a tech boom.
But with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine driving an exodus of IT specialists to former parts of the Soviet Union, authorities in Uzbekistan are hoping to speed up plans to modernise an economy best known for its vast production of cotton.
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Employees work at Uzbekistan’s state-run IT Park in the capital Tashkent on April 4, 2022. Hit by regular power cuts and with popular sites like Twitter and TikTok blocked, the Central Asian nation of Uzbekistan hardly seems a likely candidate for a tech boom. But with Russia's invasion of Ukraine driving an exodus of IT specialists to former parts of the Soviet Union, authorities in Uzbekistan are hoping to speed up plans to modernise an economy best-known for its vast production of cotton. — AFP
The IT Park in Tashkent is home to some 550 companies and at the heart of plans to increase Uzbek IT exports to more US$1bil (RM4.21bil) by 2028, a 25-fold rise from last year’s figure. — AFP
The Russian Association of Electronic Communications, a lobby group, said on March 22 that 50,000 to 70,000 specialists had left Russia and up to 100,000 more may follow them out of the door this month. — AFP
Uzbekistan’s state-run IT Park’s motto ‘START local and GO Global’ on a wood panel facade at its entrance in Tashkent. — AFP
Offering visas, housing and child care support to individuals, and registration assistance and tax exemptions to companies, the programme has already attracted some 2,000 foreign IT specialists, the government said. — AFP
Internet speed has ‘improved greatly’ in Uzbekistan, driving a doubling of IT exports last year in comparison with 2020, Ayupov said. — AFP
