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ICT SECTORIN SERBIA
ICT SECTOR IN SERBIA
Ann-Véronique Mortier
Investment and Trade Commissioner
Embassy of Belgium
Beogradska 4/1
11000 Belgrade
Serbia
Acknowledgement This study is partly based on “ICT in Serbia – At a glance” January 2013, published by: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH Program for Private Sector Development in Serbia ACCESS Vojvodina ICT Cluster
ICT Sector in Serbia | January 2014 ___________________________________________________________________________ 2
CONTENTS
GENERAL STATISTICS __________________________________________________________________ 3
GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE SECTOR _____________________________________________________ 4
ITS Market Value and Structure ________________________________________________________ 5
Overview of the Telecommunication Market _____________________________________________ 6
IT and Internet Usage _______________________________________________________________ 7
Overview of the ICT Labor Market ______________________________________________________ 9
ICT Clusters and Support Organizations ________________________________________________ 10
IT INDUSTRY OPPORTUNITIES – OUTSOURCING AND KNOW-HOW TRANSFER ____________________ 11
IMPORTANT MARKET PLAYERS _________________________________________________________ 12
Some of the ICT Companies __________________________________________________________ 13
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GENERAL STATISTICS
Population: 7.12 million
Capital: Belgrade
Territory area: 88,361 km²
GDP (absolute): €29.5 billion (per capita: €3,994)
GDP - composition by sector: Manufacturing (18.3%); Real estate, renting and other Business services (16.4%); wholesale, retail and repairs (12.8%); Agriculture, hunting, forestry and water works supply (11.2%); ICT (6.1%) and others (35.1%)
55.2% of households have personal computers
47.5% of households have Internet access
83.9% of households have mobile phones
143 Mobile telephone subscriptions/100 pop
42.6 Fixed telephone lines/100 pop; 98.5% digitalized network
Per cent of GDP spent on R&D: less than 0.8% (government fund estimated on 0.5%)
Per cent of GDP spent on Education: 2.4%