Arbusta, a Latin American technology company with operations in Uruguay since 2019, was awarded in the Digital Opportunity/Inclusion category, in recognition of its 7 years of experience providing quality digital services, while offering employment opportunities to young people with high barriers to access the labor market.
WITSA (World Information Technology and Services Alliance) announced the 12 private and public organizations worldwide that were selected to receive the WITSA Global ICT Excellence Award 2020.
WITSA is a global alliance of organizations in the technology and communications industries, with members in 80 countries. The WITSA Awards annually recognize initiatives that make the most significant contributions to humanity. "In the 20-year history of these awards, we have never before been honored to receive such highly qualified, unique and outstanding nominations," said Yvonne Chiu, Chairman of WITSA.
"We are very proud to receive this award and very grateful to WITSA for giving us this global recognition that gives us the opportunity for more people in the technology and information industries to know us, so we can continue to increase our reach to more and more countries," said Beatriz Ponce de Leon, Director and Country Manager in Uruguay of Arbusta.
About Arbusta
Arbusta is a technology company that accompanies its clients during their digital transformation processes, with a strong focus on quality assurance services for their applications and data. It does this by revolutionizing the technology sector, breaking the paradigm of talent shortage, while offering a job opportunity to young people, mostly women, with high barriers to employment and that the current market does not look at.
Currently, Arbusta has 300 employees, 61% of whom are women. Since February 2019, Arbusta has an office in Uruguay with 60 employees and has an expansion plan to provide services to Latin America and the United States from its headquarters in Montevideo.
So far in 2020, Arbusta has grown by 50% and is working on 30 projects for 20 clients in Latin America and the world.
In addition, during this year Arbusta was recognized as one of the top 100 EdTech companies in Latin America by HolonIQ and the book "The Power of Unseen Talent", by Carlos March and Andrea Vulcano (Editorial Temas), which tells the story and the innovative talent development model of this company, was published.
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