Brief History of IT Outsourcing in Ukraine
For anyone familiar with IT outsourcing Ukraine is on the A-list. The country’s highly skilled workforce stands out in the EMEA region thanks to superior quality coupled with low cost. Add to that a favorable exchange rate, and Ukraine being the largest exporter of IT services in Europe comes as no surprise.
Ukraine did not earn the position overnight, but somehow the country was destined to it from birth.
Before the Birth of Ukraine
During the Soviet Union era, Ukrainian and Ukraine-based scientists and engineers were contributing significantly to the progress of information science and technology. For example, the Small Electronic Calculating Machine, arguably the first fully operational electronic computer in continental Europe, was created in 1951 near Kyiv under the direction of Sergei Lebedev of the Kyiv Institute of Electrotechnology.