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ICT industry development
in Latvia
Janis Bergs, CEO, MicroLink Latvia
Chairmen of Board of IS Cluster
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Content
- Main players of Latvian ICT industry,
recent developments
- Trends
- Latvian IS Cluster
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Latvian ICT industry
- Telcos
- Software project companies
- Product companies
- Hardware resellers / integrators &
service companies, distributors,
resellers
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Latvian ICT industry - players
and trends
- Telcos
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Lattelekom
“New” datacom operators
Latvenergo
VITA
Cable TV operators
GSM operators
- Main trends:
- Tripple play, convergence
- Diversification: IT, outsourcing, retail
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Latvian ICT industry - players
and trends
- IT Software companies
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IT Alise
TietoEnator Financials
MicroLink
Dati, Exigen, Data Pro
- Main trends:
- Consolidation, local owners sell their shares
to foreign players
- Specialization
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Latvian ICT industry - players
and trends
- Product companies and specialized
companies
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SAF Tehnika
Lursoft
Tilde
Lots of new start ups
- Main trends:
- The number of such companies is growing
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Current Industry trends
- Nearshore outsourcing
- Grow of local market:
- EU money and Public Sector
- GDP growth near 9%
- Increasing deficit of human resources
- Growing competition in Telco markets,
entrance of new players
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Latvian IS Cluster
We want to develop in Latvia a lot of
companies like Skype, Nokia, SAF
Tehnika:
- products or scalable services
oriented to global markets;
- costs of raw materials for such
products are very small compared to
selling prices
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Latvian IS Cluster - activities
- Lobbying
- EU funds, legislation, foreign economic
policy, education
- Consulting Cluster members
- Platform for exchange of innovation
ideas, cooperation and specialization
- Representation of ICT industry to
“world outside”
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Innovation can not be
implemented by decree
What government can do:
- Speak with the industry, listen our advise
- Invest available funds wisely
- Invest in education (both long academic and
professional)
- Boost internal IT consumption and positively
lobby companies residing locally
- Support availability of capital to finance
innovation
The rest is in God’s and our own hands!
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Thank you for the attention!
[email protected]
www.is.lv
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