00:00.
00:04Creating new businesses,
00:06generating thousands of new jobs
00:08for young workers
00:10and growing international exports.
00:12Uzbekistan's
00:14tech and ICT sectors
00:16are surging.
00:18What's fueling it and how is it changing
00:20the country's economy?
00:22Hello
00:24and welcome to the programme.
00:26Boasting more than 9,700
00:28companies and over
00:30200,000 specialists.
00:32Uzbekistan's
00:34tech and ICT industries
00:36are developing fast.
00:38Total revenues reached
00:404.1 billion euros
00:42last year, with services
00:44now exported to around 90
00:46countries. We've been to meet
00:48some of the businesses making it
00:50happen.
00:52From animated children's shows
00:54to big movies,
00:56all this has been created
00:58by UnitedSoft,
01:00a company specialising
01:02in visual effects and computer
01:04generated imagery.
01:06Based in Tashkent,
01:08some of its content has made it all
01:10the way to Bollywood.
01:12You see the growth of the company
01:14in terms of not just the number
01:16of the teammates that I have,
01:18but also the amount of projects
01:20and the scale of the projects that we're working on
01:22is of course really exciting.
01:24Our plan is to start working on the more
01:28bigger scale projects such as Hollywood.
01:30UnitedSoft is a member of IT Park,
01:34which runs an ecosystem of support
01:36to develop business.
01:38With branches across Uzbekistan
01:40and representation abroad,
01:42it helps to create jobs
01:44for tech-savvy young workers
01:46and attract foreign companies,
01:48which already make up
01:50over 600 of its members.
01:54We provide tax and custom benefits.
01:56We also have visa benefits for them.
01:59We have big access to the talent pool.
02:02For example, in our country we have
02:0421 million working age professionals,
02:06including 5 million English-speaking specialists.
02:09and we also have the programs
02:11for the local companies
02:12to expand their businesses internationally.
02:15We also provide incubation
02:17and acceleration programs for startups.
02:21TaskVision, another IT Park member,
02:24deploys artificial intelligence
02:26and cloud-based technologies
02:28to analyze customers in retail stores,
02:31providing insights to drive up profits.
02:34Chuck Zod started the company
02:38when he was just 19
02:40and is now operating in seven countries.
02:43We connect with the store's existing CCTV cameras
02:47and we provide our own AI camera
02:49and we collect customer data
02:51and goods data in real time.
02:53We are giving just data
02:54about the demographics and age gender
02:56and also how many customers are coming in
02:59and in what zone they are spending time,
03:02what they are looking for
03:04and what about the touch points
03:06between goods and humans.
03:09Technology is also transforming
03:11public services.
03:14Uzinfocom is helping to make it happen.
03:18We are witnessing a significant change
03:20in public services
03:22and e-government in Uzbekistan.
03:24For example, Myadipalm,
03:25our system for recognize
03:27your veins in your hand.
03:29We use it in the public transport
03:31like in the metro,
03:32but we can use it in retail.
03:34It is more efficient
03:35and more secure.
03:38The growth of Uzbekistan's
03:39tech and ICT sectors
03:41is future-proofing its economy
03:43and positioning the country
03:45as a leading innovation hub
03:47in Central Asia.
03:49Let's get more now from Shersod Shermatov,
03:56Minister of Digital Technologies,
03:58who's in Tashkent.
03:59So, Minister, why all this growth then
04:01in tech and ICT?
04:03It's because we had the bold vision
04:05of our president to make
04:06Uzbekistan an IT hub,
04:07which is creating the job opportunities,
04:09highly paid job opportunities for our use.
04:11And Uzbekistan had a young and growing population
04:14and we need to create the jobs
04:17in Uzbekistan.
04:18And how is this then driving
04:20sustainable growth in the country?
04:21Uzbekistan used to be mostly an agrarian country
04:24and we are now trying to focus more
04:28on new service sectors growth
04:30and we had the highest growth rates
04:32in the ICT-related services
04:34in fintech
04:35and in all these new start-up areas.
04:38So, this is an enabling growing field
04:41for our young talents
04:43to grow their ideas
04:45to make future successful start-ups.
04:47Minister, thanks for joining us.
04:49Well, that's all we have time for
04:50in this edition,
04:51but you can get more business news
04:52at Euronews.com.
04:54Thanks for watching and bye for now.
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