IT-TRANSFORMATIONS IN UKRAINE UNDER CRISIS

The article defines the main strategic course and stages of the Ukrainian IT-industry development since the beginning of the century. Author has discovered that IT-business of Ukraine is competitive and it could be one of the most important spheres of the national economic development. Also the main risks are highlighted: political and legal (political instability and armed conflict in Donbas, imperfection of Ukrainian legislation, lack of real governmental support, unprotected intellectual property); economic and technical (taxation problems, national currency devaluation, lack of background for product companies developing, insufficient development of domestic market, backlog of modern technologies implementation at the national level) and labor (demand and supply imbalance on the labor market, inadequate vocational training).