South Korea invests in the development of 900 million dollars: he wants to become a world leader

Guide South Korea has decided to slightly adjust the strategy of the country: the economy is now top priority will be the software industry.

Government has announced plans to invest 1 trillion Korean won or 867 million dollars over the next three years in software development.

“The plan includes the year 2012, we hope that it will ultimately lead to the creation of Korea”s development, similar to Apple iPhone and others. A few days ago, the law on the allocation of that amount was signed by President Lee Myung-bak,” - said representative of the Ministry, reports SyberSecurity.ru.

In an official communication from the Government states that the purpose of these investments - to bring South Korea into the world leader in software solutions.

Innovation will focus on industries such as software convergence, creation of embedded software solutions and a broad profile for end users. The Ministry of economy of the country say that a significant portion of public money to companies depart from the midst of small and medium businesses.

According to independent experts for today in South Korea rather well-developed high-tech solutions, but they are mostly concentrated in the hardware sector - production of plasma and LCD televisions, telecommunications and semiconductors.

At the same time, the software industry far behind. “This program is just aims to develop the software industry”, - said Deputy Minister of economy Rim Che Min. “These investments should help the country to compete in the global arena of software.

note that in software development in China, Microsoft is going to spend more than $ 1 billion

But Ukraine ranked 50 th in the world in the rating index of competitiveness in the sector of information technologies “in 2009.