A man with a cell phone and PC sits on a chair in front of the hen house in a village of Moscow region.
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Some 90 Percent in Russia Out of the IT Community
The IT market in Russia has been stepping up at the annual pace of 20 percent recently (vs. 19.1 percent in 2006). Microsoft says it accounts for 5 percent of the GDP today, which is really impressive – the United States has just 7 percent of the GDP.
But high technology is still targeted at exporting, the analysts acknowledged. Despite that the size of Russia’s IT export grew by nearly 80 percent in 2005 to 2006, speaking about the mass demand inside Russia would be premature.
“The size of IT market exceeds 1 trillion rubles in Russia, Rosinformresurs Deputy General Director Irina Zadirako said in the air of RBC-TV. “The better part of amount, around 800 billion rubles, is covered by telecom services. It shows that the market has grown on telephony services.”
The Internet penetration is just 10 percent to 11 percent in Russia, and the problem of IT market here is the lack of mass demand for its product and services, Zadirako explained. The annual per capita consumption is estimated at slightly above $250 in Russia. In this indicator, the country is 10 times behind Japan, 13 times behind Switzerland and six times behind the EU on average.
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