“We need to visualize technology as part of the country brand”

Today, Uruguay exports more software than dairy products. Carlos Acle, new president of the Uruguayan Chamber of Information Technologies (CUTI), hopes, in the medium term, that the technology industry will become the country’s leading export item, position itself as a country brand and represent 5% of the GDP. The main obstacle to achieving this goal is the lack of skilled labor in the sector. “Companies today are managing to capture all businesses by hiring personnel outside of Uruguay,” assured the head of the business union and advanced what the strategies are to combat this human resource deficit. Below is a fragment of the interview that Acle had with Café & Negocios.