The development of the software industry is part of the transformation of the productive matrix of the country. In Ecuador the industry has boomed reaching generate over $ 500,000 in product sales in the country and exports to the region.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records 24,544 companies that are related activity, but not all practitioners. One organization that brings together 147 companies engaged in the management is the Ecuadorian Association of Software (Aesoft).
According to a study group on 2014 sales, 15% are exports of goods and services. Also it reflects that the domestic market is small, which shows that the software in Ecuador is a growth industry. Exporters correspond to 36% of the Aesoft registered companies, with the service sector which has more output. The export figure recorded is 40 million dollars, according to official data.
The Ministry of Industries reported that the sector generates 15,000 jobs, said of those 6,953 are registered in the Aesoft.
This is an industry which by their nature highly qualified human talent demand, therefore the average salary for a developer can be $ 1,300. Growth in recent years has been significant but is decreasing, so those who make up the sector expect the law through the domestic industry is encouraged.
One of the problems is the financing Berioska says Torres, director of Aesoft. Stresses that the software industry is based on knowledge, therefore not have tangible assets that guarantee. “We are not creditworthy, because we have no goods,” he explained, which is why a group of companies are subscribing capital to boost production.
The concern of the industry is that through the Wits Code, it is in the Assembly, domestic production is not encouraged.
Pedro Coellar, president of Cluster, which includes a group of companies in Cuenca, stressed that they are not against the use of software free, but what must be done is to strengthen local industry through profits, as they do in countries such as Mexico and Argentina.
The parliamentary Chicaiza Wilson, a member of the Education Committee, considers it essential strengthen the production and use of domestic software, regardless of whether or take your model or have proprietary or free scheme in the project Wits Code.
The software sector has an important opportunity to export their services for this reason a survey of member companies was carried out. The natural market for software companies according to their supply are in America.
The countries with the most respect for companies are Colombia and Peru, but there are great opportunities in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and even the United States. With the latter and Canada exists the limiting language.
Coellar said that the adoption of the Code as is the production would end because the use of free software is encouraged.
“We will change our mode of producing business and leave, “he explained. This is one of the fastest growing industry worldwide and therefore Coellar expect a law to promote domestic production is believed that currently does not exist.
They hope that through the ministries encourage national production software. “We are not against free software, we can not go against that trend, but there should be nothing more important than domestic production,” he said.
They ask priorities. “Not that I’m wrong, but you can not declare open software before because we would be ending production because nobody would produce,” said Coellar. (I)
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The Code of Social Economy of Knowledge, Creativity and Innovation (Wits) is discussed in the National Assembly. As part of his treatment convening pre-legislative consultation it took place.
The call for registration of those interested in participating in the discussions was from January 4 until yesterday. Legislators, as Ximena Ponce, expect the law to be passed during the first half of this year.
The bill has more than 500 items that are related to intellectual property protection, ancestral knowledge and domestic production.
The three topics to be consulted are linked to ancestral knowledge and biodiversity.
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