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ABSL Bosnia and Herzegovina is delighted to announce that for the very first time companies within the BPO sector have been given the opportunity to receive financial support from the government! Within the support program for small businesses in Sarajevo Canton for 2021, two public calls were published in order to support training and new employment in the sectors of BPO and IT. The total available funds for the two public calls amount to 640.000BAM – 500.000BAM are planned to support IT entrepreneurship while 140.000BAM are going to support employment in the field of administrative export-oriented services – the BPO sector. The maximum amount of funds that can…

In order to achieve the first visible contribution to the outsourcing industry in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ABSL BiH has been meticiously working on the creation of the first ever ABSL Annual Report covering the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina! In general ABSL reports offer a comprehensive overview of the business and outsourcing services sector within a country’s market, an overview of digital tools and strategies used by domestic companies in order to achieve competitive advantage, an overview of innovation levels and global reach of companies within the market and they also provide insight into the current labor market situation. They are a direct result of an extensive survey…

Phil Randazzo, former Deputy Director of Innovation Sector at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), recently visited Sarajevo to evaluate the innovation potential in BiH. As a member of the Transformers Roadshow jury – the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) competition held in Sarajevo in 2019, with the support of Bosnia Bank International (BBI) d.d. Sarajevo, Randazzo had the opportunity to talk to Bosnian innovators. He highlighted the potential that Bosnia and Herzegovina has and his beliefs that our country and Sarajevo may become a small growing Silicon Valley. “We saw fifteen different presenters at the finals of the IsDB Transformers Roadshow competition in Sarajevo and they did…

The Ministry of Economy of Sarajevo Canton has allocated 280,000 KM (cca 143,000.00 EUR) in the budget for financing the two-year IT professional study program at the University of Sarajevo. Haris Bašić, Minister of Economy of Sarajevo Canton, Tatjana Vucic, Executive Director of Bit Alliance, Jasmin Velagic, Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Sarajevo, and Mustafa Memic, Dean of the Faculty of Science in Sarajevo, signed the Agreement on the realization of the program “Support to the Development of the IT Industry”. provided funding for a two-year IT professional study program for 150 students. At the initiative of the association of IT companies “Bit Alliance”, the…