Hyderabad, India.- The Cuban applications, products and services sector showed the quality and prestige of the island”s human resources at the Indiasoft 2019 information technology conference, which culminated on Tuesday in Telangana.
The First Deputy Minister of Communications, Wilfredo Gonzalez, who led the small delegation of the Caribbean country to this event in the capital of the southern state of India, appreciated as satisfactory the results obtained in this event, which had the participation of 75 countries.
In an interview with Prensa Latina, Gonzalez said that during the meetings held with businessmen and government officials from Telangana, the parties agreed to highlight the opportunities for joint work between both countries in the field of information technology, India being one of the world leaders in this field.
The Cuban official also said that this visit to the city of Hyderabad could signal the beginning of a possible closer cooperation in this area between Cuba and India, one of the world leaders in the software industry.
Cuba has a highly qualified human resource to develop an industry of computer applications and services that drives the domestic economy, substitutes imports and exports professional services and computer products.
The Caribbean island has graduated more than 74,000 people in university careers related to information technology in the last 50 years.
Meanwhile, the Mariel Special Development Zone, west of Havana, is a favorable space for firms in this sector, based on the use of local labor and the existence of certain markets.
Gonzalez also pointed out that his delegation was able to learn firsthand the experience of how the state (Telangana) organizes the creation of products and new companies in the field of information technology, generating quality jobs and the necessary infrastructure.
The Cuban delegation also included the general director of the company Desoft software applications, Luis Guillermo Fernandez, and the senior specialist of the aforementioned portfolio Lissette Perez, held several working meetings with businessmen from India and other countries.
They also visited on Tuesday the Institute of Information Technology in Hyderabad, a university campus where new computer companies are ‘incubated’.
In places like this, the state of Telangana creates workspaces conducive to innovate and develop computer applications and services, and encourages existing companies to use these sites and existing human resources in India.
The nineteenth edition of Indiasoft, organized by the Indian Council for Export Promotion of Electronics and Computational Software, was attended by Latin America, as well as Cuba, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Guatemala and Peru.