Mexico aims to be the world’s second biggest provider of Information Technology services by 2024 federal Economic Secretary Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal announced at the 2014 World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Guadalajara on Monday.
This lofty aim is possible if federal government strategies can maintain the sustained growth that the sector has experienced over the last ten years, he said, noting that the value of Mexico’s IT sector more than tripled from around US$4 billion in 2012 to $14 billion by the end of 2013.
Held in Latin America for the first time, the WCIT took place at the Expo Guadalajara convention center in the capital of the western state of Jalisco. State Governor Aristoteles Sandoval presided over the opening ceremony and used it as an opportunity to unveil Jalisco’s latest Digital Strategy.
