If there was a sector that was extremely busy during the year marked by the pandemic, not counting healthcare, it’s certainly information technologies. Whether we wanted to or not, we all turned to modern technologies, internet and apps for working and making payments from home, which the IT sector certainly knew how to make use of, so the development of the Serbian IT market continued in 2020, with a growth of 7% and a value of over USD 600 million. Furthermore, the state and the local self-governments put special focus on the development of young and innovative companies from this sector, by investing in smart development centers and technology parks.
These are the events in the IT sector that drew the most attention from eKapija’s readers in 2020:
The
first place belongs to the announcement of the
beginning of the construction of the innovation startup center Smart City Center in Loznica, where training courses and programs for the young in the field of preparing innovative solutions for the digitization of the public administration in the territory of the city will be carried out.