1. Valentina Botan Post-soviet countries: the journey from resource- driven economies to knowledge based-economies. Focus on ICT sector ICT Education R&D

2. Summary Introduction Methods and Data Results and Analysis Conclusions and Discussions Q&A

3. Introduction, This paper analyses the performance of 10 former soviet republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation and Ukraine in transforming their economies from resource-driven into knowledge based-economies. The focus will be on analyzing the ICT sector development in these countries, starting from the premise that countries rich in natural resources (Russia, Azerbaijan and partially Ukraine) had registered less progress in this sector if compared to the rest of the countries from the analyzed pool.

4. Methods and Data Analyzed indicators: ICT share in GDP; ICT services export share in total exports; ICT services export share in GDP; Share of people employed in ICT activity on total employed people

5. ICT share in GDP (%) RankingCountries% ICT share in GDP 1 Moldova 8,9 2 Estonia 4,9 3 Latvia 3,7 4 Belarus 3,1 5 Lithuania 3,1 6 Armenia 2 7 Azerbaijan 1,9 8 Russian Federation 1,3 9 Ukraine 1,24

6. Natural resources rents vs. ICT sector (% of GDP)

9. Tendency of ICT services exports/total exports

10. ICT employment

11. Conclusions and Discussion Baltic States and Moldova performed better in ICT sector development Ukraine, Belarus and Armenia - good results are starting to appear Russian Federation, Azerbaijan - working on strategies for boosting the ICT sector. The evidence is that countries rich in natural resources have registered a much lower progress in developing their ICT sector…

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