Safe AI solutions, smart cities and The Beatles' 1995 track

18 countries have unveiled the first international agreement on how to protect artificial intelligence from irresponsible players. It aims to develop AI solutions that are "inherently safe".
Corporate software development is a complex and expensive process. For 30 years, it has required businesses to have an in-house development team or an experienced provider of "boxed" solutions for a specific business process. By 2026, more than 65% of the world's applications will be built without costly IT teams as low-code and no-code solutions rapidly take over the market.
Global CIO has invited Oleg Vaynberg, who has experience in IT education in Australia and experience as a CIO, to tell what are the pros and cons of the Australian IT education system. Global CIO community thanks Oleg for his lecture.
Global CIO has invited Zoltan Buzady, a professor at Corvinus University of Budapest, to share insights on how to enhance the effectiveness of work and organizational output through leadership qualities. The hour-long lecture flew by unnoticed, because it was filled with bright, inspiring examples, jokes, and useful instructions. Global CIO community thanks Zoltan Buzady for an interesting and useful webinar.

On November 30, the professional IT community GlobalCIO hosted a large-scaled international conference "Global CIO Insights: Digital Transformation with AI". During the event, leading experts shared their practical experience in launching projects utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) and highlighted approaches that helped elevate their companies to new heights.

According to the statistics agency, the number of telecommunication and IT companies has increased 1.8 times in the last five years. At the beginning of 2023, there are more than 12 thousand ICT companies operating in the country. More than 100 thousand people are employed in the industry. At the end of 2022, the volume of ICT services grew by 125.5% and amounted to 22.9 trillion soums, of which 4.2 trillion soums were programming services provided by Uzbek companies and specialists. The total revenue of Uzbekistan's IT sector for the first quarter of 2023 reached 2.38 trillion soums - almost four times more than in the same period of 2022. Exports of digital services increased to $57.2 million. According to IT Park, net income amounted to more than 90% of revenue or 2.158 trillion soums.

According to the statistics agency, the number of telecommunication and IT companies has increased 1.8 times in the last five years. At the beginning of 2023, there are more than 12 thousand ICT companies operating in the country. More than 100 thousand people are employed in the industry. At the end of 2022, the volume of ICT services grew by 125.5% and amounted to 22.9 trillion soums, of which 4.2 trillion soums were programming services provided by Uzbek companies and specialists. The total revenue of Uzbekistan's IT sector for the first quarter of 2023 reached 2.38 trillion soums - almost four times more than in the same period of 2022. Exports of digital services increased to $57.2 million. According to IT Park, net income amounted to more than 90% of revenue or 2.158 trillion soums.

The IT strategy of a large number of companies includes the automation (digitization) of not only accounting processes but also production and logistics processes.



In an interview with Global CIO, Kairat Bazarbekov, CIO at Centras Group, Kazakhstan, talks about his automation experience at Centras Group: how they gradually managed to combine several disparate IT systems into one and what approaches help in business automation.

Clouds offer companies great advantages. They allow for much faster ordering or relinquishment of resources than in the case of hardware; much more flexibility in budget planning, increasing or decreasing the cost of IT services.

One of the risks of an actively developing IT company is that as the staff expands, recruitment may turn from an individual approach into a conveyor belt. This negatively affects not only the quality of selection of employees for projects, but also the loyalty of the candidates themselves to the employer. Polina Kondakova, head of the recruitment department at iFellow, tells us why this happens and how to avoid it.

September was generous with news. From the distant counties of Australia to the forests of Canada, from sporting achievements to vendor announcements, this is how much the beginning of fall brought us.

The editors of Global CIO portal organized a conversation with three IT executives from China: Zhang Jianhua, Lu Yang and Zhou Shengzhe, who agreed to answer a few questions and share their experience in digitalization, application of AI and use of big data.

“Project of the Year” is an annual contest which has been held by professional IT-community Global CIO since 2012. During this time it has become a key communication platform for CIOs and top managers who use automation and digitalization in their daily practice. In the last two years the contest has become international.