Information and Communication Technologies drive Economic Growth
A 2005 OECD Economic Survey concluded that “The key element to achieving sustained rises in real incomes (within a nation) is productivity growth.” And while improvements could be made in areas of product market competition, business taxation, infrastructure provision, labor markets, innovation and human capital formation, one area which has been shown to increase aggregate productivity in an economy is the existence of an Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) producing sector, and the widespread use of ICT by other industries.
Since 2002, Agitavi has been working with technology vendors in various initiatives and programmes design to establish and grow their partners and software enabled innovations for industry, inside country based Local Software Economies.
Like these vendors, Agitavi is passionate about the potential for software innovations to grow economies and change the way people work, play and think. To this end we are committed to understanding the what, and the how of:
- local software economy creation and growth,
- software entrepreneurship and software start up growth,
- software based innovation use by individuals and enterprises, small, medium or large.
Agitavi provides Growth Programmes for Local Software Economies
Agitavi provides research and growth programmes that support vendors, governments and non-government organizations (NGOs) to create vibrant and highly successful local software economies within counties.
To grow a Local Software Economy requires understanding of the demand, supply and innovation ecosystems and their readiness to create or adopt innovation. To achieve this, Agitavi runs a combination of focus groups with senior sector CEOs, and quantitative based research of software capabilities in the local software economy.
The output of these activities is a solid understanding of the current state of the local software economy and the key focus or objectives of any LSE programmes in either the software producing, or software using sectors of the economy.
