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Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospac Industry Zhaslan Madiev reported on the work carried out on the development of IT industry at a meeting of the Government. Active work is underway to develop the IT industry.In 2024, Kazakhstans IT industry continued to grow rapidly. The number of IT companies exceeds 18 thousand and increased by 16% over the past three years.During this period, the average monthly salary of IT specialists increased by 54% and reached 673 thousand tenge.This reflects high demand for qualified personnel and competitive working conditions.The number of employed in the IT industry increased by 12% to 187 thousand people, Zhaslan Madiev said.
In 2018, Astana Hub International Technological Park was launched.Today, Astana Hub is growing significantly.It confirms the role of IT startups in Kazakhstan as a center for development.The technopark brought together more than 1.5 thousand participants.Among them are 1102 local and 437 foreign companies.The total revenue of the participants amounted to 1.2 trillion tenge and increased 31 times over the past five years. Export revenues for three quarters of this year reached 143 billion tenge.The annual growth has more than 10 times over four years.Thus, Astana Hub continues to strengthen its position as a leading technopark in the region.The development of regional hubs has become a key element of our innovation ecosystem.Today there are 17 regional IT-hubs across the country.They actively contribute to the development of local startups and entrepreneurship, the speaker said. According to the Minister, all programs for the development of startups and IT industry are available to regional IT-hubs.By the end of the year, it is planned to include another hub in Petropavlovsk.Thus, regional hubs are becoming an important driver of development of the IT industry in Kazakhstan.This contributes to the opening of talents and creating a strong innovative ecosystem. A single window of the national innovation system was created.Here most of the measures of state support for IT specialists, innovators and scientific figures have been released.A mobile supplement is also available.The portal ensures transparency and effectiveness of the distribution of state support measures. Today, the portal is used annually by more than half a million people.It can be said that the portal has become a single window similar to EGOV, the Minister said. According to Zhaslan Madiev, conditions are created to attract talented specialists from all over the world.There is an Expat Center at the AHCC.
This center serves as a unified window for obtaining public services for foreign specialists. In addition, a special visa - Digital Nomad Visa for IT specialists was launched to fulfill the Presidents instructions.This allows you to get an e-visa through simplified procedures. We are working on running Digital Nomad Residency.This program simplifies the procedure for obtaining access to online mode.It is planned to launch next month.Tech Orda has been launched to implement the instructions of the President.This program is aimed at training 20 thousand IT specialists by stimulating private IT-schools by 2025.Over the past three years, about 82 thousand IT specialists have been trained.More than 16 thousand specialists have been trained in private IT schools.We seek to train highly qualified personnel in accordance with the requirements of the labor market, he said. Today there are successful events among Tech Orda graduates.They had the opportunity to switch from other areas to IT.For example, Lyazzat Khadzhimuratova, who received a lawyer, served as a developer in the field of e-commerce after participating in the program. Another successful event can be said in the example of Aldiyar Kultumanov.He decided to study higher education and change the professional direction in the field of medicine.At the end of the program, he began his career as a developer-Junior Frontend, the Minister said.
At a meeting of the Government, the Minister said that it is necessary to draw the attention of the international professional community. For this purpose, international forums and conferences are held. From 3 September 2024, Kazakhstan hosted the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Digital Inclusions and Transformation for the first time in Astana.The conference was attended by 186 delegates from more than 30 countries.The total number of participants exceeded 1,500 people.The adoption of the Astana Declaration was held. On September 15-20 this year, Kazakhstan was the first time ICPC - the worlds largest student sports programming championship.This incident strengthened the position of our country as an IT hub in Central Asia.Out of 73,000 countries, 142 teams from 50 countries have passed out of 50 countries, and the team of the International University of Information Technology has become one of the top 30 teams in the world. In addition, since 2018, important events such as Digital Bridge and Digital Almaty are being held.These forums attract more than 30,000 participants every year. Kazakhstan IT-services exports are showing rapid growth.
In 2023, the export volume reached 529 million. In the first half of 2024, this figure amounted to 306 million. In accordance with the instructions of the Head of State, we are confidently striving for the 1 billion mark by 2026. Today, Kazakhstans IT services are exported to 86 countries. This confirms the high demand for our digital solutions and our competitiveness at the global level, Zhaslan Madiev noted. Astana Hub, together with Google for Startups, annually holds the Silkway Accelerator 12-week acceleration program. Startup projects from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and other countries participate in the program. Astana Hub and Draper University have established a long-term partnership within the framework of the Hero Training program.
