Serbia won't miss out on this industrial revolution - PM

Their goal is to stimulate faster development of industries based on knowledge and digital transformation, Brnabic told a panel dedicated to blockchain technology - the central theme of an Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) conference.

According to her, digitization represents the greatest potential for Serbia to "growth, be competitive, and leapfrog."

"It is the 4th industrial revolution that gives a whole new set of opportunities for economies such as Serbian. Those that were not the winners of the previous industrial revolutions, have a unique chance to become winners in today's world. As the prime minister, I have my mind set on Serbia using this unique opportunity, which is why I declared digitization - digitization of all aspects of Serbian society - to be the number one priority of my government," Brnabic said.

"This means a very wide scope of things:from developing eGovernment and delivering more eServices - to increase efficiency and transparency of the government, and also as a mighty tool to fight corruption, to strong support to Serbian fast growing IT sector (which currently grows more than 20 percent year-on-year, with exports growth of more than 30 percent annually), to significant investments in modernization of education," she continued.

"My goal is to drive the transformation of Serbian economy from investment-driven, where we are today, to innovation-driven, where we need to be," the prime minister said.

"Like some other Eastern European countries with traditionally strong STEM education, Serbia has been known as a great outsourcing destination for years. It is ranked among the top European countries when it comes to the number of freelancers and, according to some...