Every second IT specialist from Belarus chooses Poland to be place of relocation

In August last year, about 10 percent of IT specialists from Belarus chose Poland as a place of relocation, now every second, the Prime Minister's plenipotentiary for GovTech Justyna Orłowska, said. In connection with the transfer of the digitization ministry to the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, a GovTech center was established in the office.

"This is the practical part of digitization, e-services, and digital competencies," she said.

She talked about some of the projects that GovTech implemented over the last year, including the competition platform for innovative procurement in administration.

"We wondered why start-ups do not get public contracts, why they do not provide solutions for the public sector, why start-ups cannot create a tool for the citizen, because this is what we are doing at the GovTech center. Now there is such a tool, start-ups can show their solutions to the administration that can order and buy them safely and in accordance with the provisions of public procurement," she said.

GovTech has also been implementing the Poland Business Harbor since August, which makes it easier for Belarusian specialists in the IT industry and companies from this industry to relocate to the territory of Poland. Orłowska said that there is a website with job advertisements that may be of interest to the Belarusian side, and a relevant legislative package has been introduced.

(PAP)