IT sector continues to be one of the most dynamic and developing segments of the economy of our country. Despite the continuing stagnation of the Ukrainian economy, the export of IT services from Ukraine increased by 20%. According to experts' forecasts, if the industry does not interfere with development, by 2020 it can grow by 1.7 times. Year with plus According to the results of the last year, the IT sector of Ukraine continued its growth at a higher rate than the country's economy as a whole. According to the audit company PwC, in 2017 the IT market grew by 20%. Tax revenues from the IT sector to the state budget in 2017 increased by 38% compared to the previous year and amounted to 7.8 billion UAH, the European Business Association's Information Technology Committee. Exports of IT services increased to $ 3.6 billion. Information technologies confidently occupy the third position in terms of export earnings, second only to agribusiness and metallurgy. The contribution of the IT market to the economy last year amounted to about 4% of the country's GDP, and in subsequent years will continue to increase. Optimistic prospects In 2018, it is expected that the growth rate of the IT market will increase to 30%. At the same time, the number of specialists engaged in the industry will increase from 116 to 145 thousand. people, so assess the prospects for this year in the association "IT Ukraine". While maintaining the existing growth rates in 5 years, information technologies have every chance to enter the second place in the structure of Ukrainian exports.

According to GlobalLogic Ukraine, with favorable conditions by 2025 the IT sector could grow to $ 8.4 billion. , or 2.3 times, and the number of jobs will increase to more than 240 thousand. human. According to the results of the study of the experts of the European Business Association, with the assistance and support of the industry at the state level, the export-oriented sphere of information technologies can double by all indicators until 2020 and deduct taxes to the state budget to 27 billion UAH. The IT sector has an increasing influence on the domestic economy of Ukraine. In addition to increasing foreign exchange earnings in the country, this industry contributes to the formation of the middle class - the basis for building a prosperous economy. The industry provides more and more jobs with a high level of income. It is significant that over 40% of the demand for commercial real estate in Kiev is now being formed by IT companies. Expected results of IT sector growth up to 2020: Growth of the number of industry specialists to 200 thousand. Increase in exports of IT services to $ 6 billion. The IT market will be about 5% of the country's GDP. Output of the industry in second place in terms of export level. Increase of the niche in the world market. Increase of allocations to the budget to UAH 27 billion. Drop in the sea Despite the impressive growth, the Ukrainian IT market on a global scale continues to be small, and is about 1% of the global indicator. The volume of the world market of IT services in 2017 exceeded 3.5 trillion dollars, of which more than 40% fall on the United States. For example, India's IT market is estimated at $ 145 billion. , this is 40 times more than in Ukraine. At the same time, the Indian IT market is actively supported at the state level, which is not in Ukraine. Now the number of IT specialists in India exceeds 4 million, which is 40 times more than in Ukraine. From the export of IT services for each Ukrainian accounted for 80 dollars, for comparison, this figure in Israel is $ 1,650. Now the IT sector in Ukraine is expanding not at the expense of increasing the share in the world market, but due to the growth of the provided services in the world. To increase the share of our country in the world market, the annual growth rates of IT services should exceed the world average level, providing an increase of at least 30-40% per year.

Threats to IT perspectives The Ukrainian IT sector not only develops rapidly, but also faces internal obstacles, without which the development of the IT market in our country would be much faster. Over the past few years more than 10 thousand people left Ukraine to work abroad. IT specialists, or a tenth of their total number. The reason is a low standard of living in the country, political instability and legal insecurity of business from pressure from state bodies and security agencies. This situation contributed to the active move to other countries of individual professionals and entire companies. This led to the loss of a tenth of the revenues from the IT industry and tangible loss reputational for our country. Foreign investor will not invest in the country from which local companies leave. Yes, and Ukrainian entrepreneurs themselves think twice whether to expand the existing business or open a new business in Ukraine. Also one of the main problems of the market is the lack of an industry development strategy and a program for the education of future specialists. The level of our technical education does not meet modern requirements. In the world market the most popular are high-class specialists, specializing in the most promising segments of information technology. To ensure the sustainable development of the Ukrainian IT-market, it is necessary to reduce the level of state intervention and contribute to improving the business climate in the country. While the business climate in Ukraine will be worse than in neighboring countries, Ukrainian innovators will realize their start-ups on the territory of other states, where more favorable conditions have been created for their development. According to experts from the IT Ukraine association, now our companies are beginning to leave outsourcing, offering customers turn-key products and ready-made solutions for performing business tasks. This is a qualitative step that will promote the growth of profitability and manufacturability of companies. The further development of food companies in Ukraine will depend not so much on the level of engineers as on the state of the business climate in the country. A good example of how to create a support for the development of new technologies is Belarus. For investors in the IT sector, in addition to attractive tax conditions, the rule of law and a fair judicial system are also guaranteed. In particular, the application of English law. The combination of low taxes and a transparent system of protection of rights is attractive for international capital, contributes to the inflow of investments and new technologies into the Belarusian IT market. The future of automation Automation, which affected most of today's professions, in the future promises big problems for software developers. The first country in which there is already a massive layoff of programmers is India. In the past year, 2% of Indian IT specialists who are involved in developing programs for foreign companies. According to a study conducted by the National Association of Software and Services Companies, up to 60% of Indian programmers may be out of work by 2020. The work they are now performing will be fully automated. Now the IT industry is reoriented to machine learning, robotization, automatic analysis of large data, which in the future can leave 80% of today's Indian programmers without work. As a result, in the Indian IT market only programmers with a high level of skills will remain - such today's minority. Totally in 2017 seven leading Indian IT companies dismissed no less than 60 thousand. employees. This is more than half of all IT people who work now in Ukrainian companies. In the future, the trend of automation of programming will increase. Over time, programs for automatic code writing and business process outsourcing will become more accessible and widely used. Ukrainian IT specialists will address this problem to the same extent as programmers from other countries. Our "IT people" will face the risk of being out of work, or they will learn the directions that the machines can not yet perform. Will all specialists be able to adapt to the new realities - while the question. How: how will the IT market in Ukraine become after a significant part of the work of current programmers can perform machines ... Already, one should think about what Ukrainian companies will be able to offer when transformations in the global IT market will reach our country. It is possible that the plans for the dynamic development of the IT sector in our country can be hampered by the tough realities of the new round of competition. Now already between man and machine. According to the CEO of the web service for hosting GitHub IT projects Chris Wanstress, those who want to stay in the IT field, it is better to engage in the most promising areas: artificial intelligence, large data and machine learning. Sergey Savenko.

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