The Moldova Digital Summit 2025: Opportunities and Ambitions for a Digital Economy

PAC participated in the Moldova Digital Summit 2025, held at the Chisinau Arena. While Moldova is still facing economic and geopolitical pressures (such as inflation, energy prices, or the proximity to the war in Ukraine), it is prioritizing tech development as a strategic asset in the face of all these turmoils.

A few months ago, in October 2024, the European Commission announced a EUR 1.8 billion Growth Plan for the Republic of Moldova, marking the largest EU financial support package since the country’s independence. Spanning 2025 to 2027, the plan is anchored in a Reform and Growth Facility aimed at revitalizing Moldova’s economy, accelerating key reforms, and advancing its path toward EU membership through substantial financial and structural support. Digitalisation is expected to play a key role in this ambitious country plan.

In this sense, opportunities such as the Moldova Digital Summit, which bring together internal players, external partners, the start-up ecosystem, and possible customers, are more than welcome to build a sustainable future for the tech industry and to efficiently benefit from these funds. Looking at the figures, we can say that Moldova is in a great position to seize these opportunities. According to Doina Nistor, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economic Development and Digitalization, the Moldovan IT sector now contributes 7% to Moldova’s GDP, outperforming other traditional industries. These figures are also illustrated by the substantial pool of tech specialists. Considering this, Moldova has attracted the presence of global IT players, including Stefanini and Endava, with the latter employing over 1,000 professionals in the country.

Orange – Moldova’s largest telecom operator – has been established for about two decades in Moldova, currently serving over 2.6 million customers and employing more than 1,500 people. Orange operates one of Moldova’s largest IT hubs, Orange Systems, and a couple of years ago launched the Orange Digital Center, a hub for developing digital and entrepreneurial skills. Recently, Orange Moldova announced the construction of its first solar farm in Mileștii Mici, a facility that is capable of generating approximately 1.5 GWh of green energy annually, with 55% of that energy powering the Orange Data Center.

However, Moldova needs to move forward to the next step in building a consistent IT sector and to increase domestic consumption.

Foreign Cooperation

To accelerate the development and adoption of new technologies, it is important to be in contact with international stakeholders and to have a broader technological and business perspective of the digital transformation projects. Thus, the event boasted a considerable international presence, and a cooperation announcement was made. For instance, Moldova and Qatar have signed a strategic agreement aimed at bolstering bilateral cooperation in IT and digital innovation and promoting innovation and data governance. The Moldova Innovation Technology Park (MITP) and the Latvian IT Cluster / EDIH have signed a three-year strategic Memorandum of Understanding that will focus on sharing expertise, collaborating on joint initiatives, and fostering cross-border innovation. In PAC’s opinion, these types of connections with such an innovative hub worldwide could bring particular expertise and visibility for domestic products, that has the opportunity to extend both in the homeland and abroad.

Vertical perspective

The public sector is a pure locomotive for the domestic IT market. For instance, the EVO application facilitates access to more than 63 public services and the issuance of over 100,000 digital documents. Other example includes the edemocratie.gov.md/ platform that enables citizens to request official information, participate in surveys, and initiate or sign petitions, including collective ones. The EVO application was implemented with significant support from various organizational entities, including the Future Technologies Project (funded by USAID, Sweden, and the UK), the Ukraine Moldova American Enterprise Fund, UNDP, and the World Bank.

Financial services seem to be the other sector keeping the digitalization rhythm with the public sector. Other industries are still very shy, with some significant deals from time to time. An example in this sense is Moldretail Group, one of the largest companies in the country, with the Czech company Consulting for Retail.

PAC’s view

In PAC’s opinion, strategic IT investment and innovation must align with the objective of generating sustained value across both private and public sector initiatives. When discussing the private sector, some financial incentives can increase digitalization across industries and create equitable digital development across the entire economic environment. This approach is fundamental to fostering long-term economic growth. Concurrently, while the start-up landscape is highly dynamic, dedicated support for post-seed stage development is essential for these companies to reach critical market maturity.