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As a result of the calculation, the most attractive for export

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2025 9:11 am
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Sergey Plugotarenko, CEO of the Digital Economy ANO, reported at the Russian Internet Governance Forum (RIGF) on April 9 that in order to determine which countries Russian IT companies can cooperate with in terms of exporting solutions, experts from the Digital Economy ANO developed a methodology and calculated a special rating.

of Russian ICT products malaysia whatsapp resource were Kazakhstan (9.4 points), China (8.6), Belarus (8.6), Brazil (8.4) and India (7.9). The next five included Turkey, the UAE, Armenia, Iran, Indonesia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, receiving more than 6.5 points out of 13.6 possible on the country orientation index for software export.

"Many people ask about China. It would seem that they have everything. But mathematics shows that China's entry into the top 5 promising countries, in addition to the country's friendly status and integration processes, is due to the country's GDP and trade turnover with Russia. We believe that the potential is great. When calculating the index, the most important factors were the level of economic integration with Russia, political status, volume of trade turnover, digital maturity index and internet usage index by the population," explains Sergey Plugotarenko.

In response to a question from listeners about how Russian companies can work with China in conditions where Chinese banks, fearing secondary sanctions, refuse to accept payments from Russia, Alexey Sidoryuk, Director of the Digital Transformation of Industries department at the Digital Economy ANO, answered: “Many goods are still being supplied from China, which means that somehow companies find ways to continue working.”

According to the research of the ANO "Digital Economy", the most attractive markets for the export of Russian IT products are the countries of the EAEU and BRICS; attractive markets with a number of minor economic, digital or political restrictions are the countries of the Greater Middle East, Southeast Asia and Latin America; markets with significant restrictions, but still attractive are the countries of Africa and Central America.

"This calculation is the first step. Together with the Ministry of Industry an