In 2018 Moldova exported $164M worth of IT services, a 40% rise on the previous year and a doubling from 2016. Ana Chiriță, strategic project manager at the Moldovan Association of Private ICT Companies (ATIC), attributes the rise to “a fairly effective cooperation between the private sector and the governmental sector”.
Ana Chiriță has told IPN that among the factors are the emergence of a legal framework stimulating the growth of the sector and a looser fiscal policy. She also singled out the creation of a national IT Park, an initiative from 15 ATIC member companies and which has grown to have about 400 resident companies today, exceeding original expectations.
According to Ana Chiriță, the leading IT exports are development, design and analysis.
Arguably the biggest impediment to the sector’s growth is the deficit of highly skilled specialists, says Chiriță.
In the last three years, about $7M has been invested in the IT education center Tekwill, a project financed by the USAID and the Government of Sweden, and implemented by ATIC and the Moldovan Technical University
