National market of technology to generate US$ 200 billion by 2020
DCI
In the next nine years, the national market of information technology (IT) will generate investments that may reach US$ 200 billion because of factors like the heated and rising economy, demographic characteristics and investments on research and development, representing growth of 192%. Between 2009 and 2010, Brazil generated US$ 68.4 billion in IT. In the global market, the value can range between US$ 1.5 and US$ 3 trillion. The scenario will favor the rise of the status of the country to the fifth largest economy in the world; Brazil currently ranks seventh in world ranking, according to the Brasscom Index of Digital Convergence (IBCD).
Nevertheless, the Brasscom index, developed with the purpose of evaluating the Brazilian IT market, pointed out Brazil scored 6.75 in 2010 (on a scale from 0 to 10), growth of 15.4% compared to the number obtained in the prior study in 2008 (5.85). According to the indicators, the growth is still not enough to keep up with the global trends.
One of the points highlighted by the conductors of survey is broadband: the price is still considered too high and the service, inefficient. Brazil currently has 38.4 million accesses to the web, and only 20% of them are of 2 megabits per second (Mbps) or more. Analyzing the regional scenario, the situation is more serious, harming digital inclusion. "The acceptance of broadband is much lower in the North and Northeast because of the high prices and low quality", says the Director of Infrastructure and Digital Convergence of Brasscom, Nelson Wortsman.
The broadband connections in the country, on their turn, had growth of 51.5% compared with March 2011 for the same period of 2010. They are 38.4 million broadband connections, 20% of which faster than 2 Mbps. According to the index, access to the internet and to computers reached 45% and 53% of the population, respectively. The forecast of Brasscom is that the growth of the demand for broadband increases 35 times until 2019. According to a study of AT Kearney, ordered by the Association, smartphones and tablets (handheld computers) have increased 24 and 122 times, respectively, the traffic in the internet network.