By Giorgi Tsikolia

In 2025, Georgia’s information technology sector generated $1.15 billion in export revenue—a 67 percent increase year-on-year and more than a thirteen-fold rise from the sector’s 2017 baseline.[1] This paper traces the policy, diplomatic, and private-sector decisions that produced that outcome. It then examines three constraints—labor market restrictions on foreign workers, the absence of government as a technology customer, and Georgia’s exclusion from U.S.-led AI infrastructure investment—that directly affect whether the sector’s growth continues.

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