Milan, 03.10.2010 - "In 2009, the annus horribilis for the global ICT market, Italy has widened the technology gap with other countries recorded a contraction of IT among the most consistent, that to -8.1%, compared to an average decrease of the global industry - 5.4%. Among developed countries, ours is the one who, in 2009, has increased over the gap between GDP (-5%) And IT investment (-8.1%), revealing a country that turned in on itself, with certain exceptions, seems to have lost courage, afraid to invest and take risks. The Italian disinvestment in Information Technology, amounting to 1.657 billion euro, is a warning sign of retreat to the country's competitive low-level structural arrangements that threaten to condemn us to stagnation. Public institutions, businesses, appear trapped by an approach from breathing too short, he can not go beyond the horizon of the emergency quota. They are, in fact, set back all the parameters of the market: -14.8% hardware, software - 3.6%, services - 6.5% -10.3% large enterprises, medium - 7.3% -8.0% smaller. Innovation, an essential tool for development, seems to have disappeared from the vocabulary of political and economic crisis measures. With this background 2010 will be a very difficult year. Our estimates indicate a negative trend for the sector of -3.1%, which will widen the gap with GDP (1%). He used no uncertain terms Paul Angelucci, President of Assinform, in presenting the data today in Milan anticipation of Assinform Report 2010, photos of a heavily affected by the crisis in the IT industry.
also applies to the TLC, the Report highlights Assinform a phase of suffering, a decrease of -2.3% of the market. Some of the bulwarks of the field seem to have entered saturation in crisis. In particular, mobile telephony, the ICT sector that has driven for 15 years, marks the first downward trend down the consumer segment, the active mobile lines, the Sim, recording a decrease of -1.5%. In overall terms, the national ICT market declined by - 4.2%, falling to a value of € 61.771 billion (in 2008 was of 64.463 million euro), compared with -1.5% at worldwide. Although
IT - continued Angelucci - with 400,000 employees and 97,000 businesses, is the fourth industry of the country, not only collecting the proper attention from politics, but its economic impact and employment, and its potential in the process of development of the country are largely undervalued by the institutions. Yet, to overcome the crisis and pave the way for growth, Italy has no choice, must continue to invest in Information Technology. This requires action that is a clear signal of trend reversal, before a policy for innovation and development. It should be in this sense, our proposal for scrapping the software is as a measure of incentive for innovation for the Made in Italy, both as support for employment in the IT industry. The application software, in fact, are crucial for the modernization of enterprises, the economy, and constitute the heart of the PA the value added by the industry in Italy. In the production of software, IT employment Italian concentrates most qualified, already tested by the loss of 16,000 jobs in 2009, if the data estimates are confirmed, is likely to leave in 2010 to house another 8,000 employees.
The latest economic survey carried out by Assinform in February 2010 on a representative sample of associated enterprises (including SMEs and large enterprises), confirm, unfortunately, negative predictions of employment. The hemorrhaging of jobs, affecting both employees (-8.15 sample firms) they make above, external consultants (deteriorating for 26.4% of companies). The largest decline was borne by large enterprises, of which 54.5% said they use less external workforce, very often, unfortunately, made up of employees of medium and small enterprises in the sector.
President Paul Angelucci also announced three major initiatives Assinform. In terms of finance for innovation - said Angelucci - we are about to conclude a first agreement with a major innovative bank that provides medium-term financing for companies that invest in IT including, for the first time, the intangible components ( software and services). At the same time we have set up a working group to address in a practical and pragmatic the issue of tariffs downpricing IT. The downward trend in professional fees, in fact, is an anomaly all Italian, which stifles investment in human capital of IT firms, which represents as much as 26% of company revenues, while penalizing the customers and the quality of their projects and services . There is a risk of impoverishment Italian information technology professional. We must find a path that takes us out of this vicious circle. In terms of research and development, finally, we are committed to enhancing both the many good practices found in IT Italian, who promote a policy of aggregation of the industry. The goal is to produce innovative solutions shared to help supply and demand to grow, even from a perspective of the internationalization of Italian IT companies, carriers of "made in Italy technology."
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