For the president of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies (CUTI) Carlos Aclethe country has several strengths that position it as a possible center of international interest, both from the private sector and from other countries, in terms of technology and innovation.
“Primarily its stability, which means that technology firms are settling in Uruguay. For example, the announcement of Google A few weeks ago, the installation of the laboratory Microsoft three months ago, are signs that the country is solid and that these companies see Uruguay as a place to settle and a place where there is innovation. And the other point has to do with a industry history that is more than 30 years old, with a state strategy,” he explained to Ambit Acle.
In this regard, he pointed out that “from the year 2000 onwards there is a strategy to look at the sector as a key sector, and for that, policies have been developed along these lines that I hope will continue to be maintained in the future, because it has been part of the success of this sector.” Furthermore, he added that there is “a very great alignment between the different actors and we understand that without this alignment it would not be possible. This is what happens in the main places of innovation in the world.”
“We were in Israel at the beginning of the year and in Silicon Valley now in October. There is the academy closely linked to private sector and companies and industries all looking at the technology sector,” explained the president of CUTI, as an example.
Regarding debits, Acle pointed out that this field includes “everything that has to do with the entrepreneurship and venture capital investment.” “These are all topics that in Uruguay that comes a little further back,” he stated, even in Latin America, with countries like Brazil and Argentina where this issue is very developed. “No way to talk about USA. That is one of the main points to continue working on Uruguay”, express.
In any case, the leader positively valued the existence of the Uruguay Innovation Hubpromoted by the government so that companies of type startup are installed in Uruguay; and another similar experience also developed from Ministry of Industry what are you looking for capitalize investment fundswhich has had precedents in countries like Israel.
On the other hand, the fact that the country is also chosen as a place of residence for executives due to its good characteristics in terms of security and stability, is highlighted by the Chamber: “That is also important. That’s also why when you have to convince an executive to move to a country, it has to be good and in that sense Uruguay is also working on what it is talent attraction“.
In this sense, Acle recalled that “there is a law that was approved in the Parliament It has been in the regulatory process for a month, precisely to attract talent in the area of information technology and that it has certain benefits so that they come to work in Uruguay. “It is personnel that we lack today and of certain profiles, especially with experience in certain areas that we lack today, and when these companies decide to establish themselves, they need that personnel,” he concluded.
The event
It took place this Thursday in Montevideo he CUTI Business Forum which had as its central themes the new business models with the participation of the digital sector, artificial intelligence and the necessary and already existing regulations within this sector.
The meeting took place in the auditorium of the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU) to businessmen, entrepreneurs, diplomatic representatives and government authorities such as the president of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU), Diego Labat.
Source: Ambito
