Industry4cast by KFactory hosts Mihai Matei, IT entrepreneur and President of ANIS (Romania's Employers' Association of the Software and IT Services Industry), and an outspoken advocate for the digitalisation of public services. The conversation begins with the deceptively simple statement: "As a country, we should aim for every child to be in school."
"As a country, we should aim for every child to be in school."
Original: "Ca tara, ar trebui sa ne propunem ca orice copil sa fie la scoala." - Mihai Matei, IT entrepreneur, President of ANIS (Romania's Software and IT Services industry association)
Mihai's argument runs from the ground up: digitalisation - whether of public services, manufacturing, or anything in between - is not a software project, it is a workforce project. A country whose children are out of school does not produce the operators, technicians and engineers that any future industrial economy needs. The IT industry has a stake in that fact whether it acknowledges it or not.
ANIS has been one of the loudest voices in the Romanian conversation about digital public services. The episode connects that work to the operational reality on Romanian factory floors - where platforms like KFactory succeed or fail on the strength of the people in the plant, not the elegance of the software.
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Episode was recorded in Romanian. The summary above is an English translation of the original conversation.