Bearing in mind the importance of the IT industry as an engine for economic development, innovation and international competitiveness, the stakeholders of the Kosovo IT industry, including several national ministries and agencies, the Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK), universities and donor organizations, have joined forces in order to develop a collaborative strategy for promoting the Kosovo IT industry. The process of developing the Kosovo IT Strategy has been supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.