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information society

Conference:
Towards an Information Society for the Western Balkans

11 and 12 December 2008
Belgrade, Serbian Chamber of Commerce

The Conference has addressed Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) stakeholders such as leading researchers and experts from academia and industry and representatives of Ministries from the Western Balkan Countries (WBC).

The event represented an opportunity for formulating a coherent strategy and actions for the development of the ICT research environment in the Western Balkans and for the region’s integration in the wider European effort to achieve the Information Society.

The regional ICT research needs, capacities and priorities were discussed as well as the future challenges of the Western Balkan ICT research environment were explored in order to put forward concrete recommendations/actions for enhanced regional ICT research collaboration.

The Conference was co-organised by the two European projects SCORE and WBC-INCO.NET with the support of the European Commission, and hosted by the Serbian Chamber of Commerce. WBC-INCO.NET (Coordination of research policies with the Western Balkan countries, www.wbc-inco.net) having just started, aims at contributing to the implementation of the SCORE results at a political level across the region.

110 ICT stakeholders, ICT experts and researchers have participated in the event coming from the Western Balkan region as well as from neighbouring and other EU countries (e.g. Austria, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Greece).

The FINAL AGENDA and the PRESENTATIONS are available for download here below

Thursday, 11 December 2008

09:00 - 09:20

Registration

OPENING SESSION

09:20 - 09:30

Introductory remarks (Raphael Koumeri, PLANET S.A., SCORE) and Ulrike Kunze (PT-DLR, WBC-INCO.NET)

09:30 - 09:50

Welcome speech (Mrs. Jelena Jovanovic, Secretary of IT Association, Serbian Chamber of Commerce)

KEYNOTE SPEECHES

09:50 - 10:10

The EU FP7 ICT Theme (Vlassios Venner – DGINFSO, EC )

10:10 - 11:10

The ICT environment in the Western Balkans (Djuro Kutlaca, MPI, WBC INCO.NET)

  • Needs vs. capacities, common elements and particularities

  • Discussion

11:10 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

Regional ICT Research & Development Priorities (Jelena Pantelic, Information Society SCG)

  • Methodological remarks; Common R&D priorities

  • Discussion

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:00

Key barriers and challenges in ICT Research: the Regional & EU context (Soumi Papadopoulou, PLANET S.A. and René Wintjes, UNU-MERIT)

  • Key findings from SCORE and WBC-INCO.NET

  • Discussion

15:00 - 15:30

    Coffee Break

PANEL DISCUSSION

15:30 - 17:30

THE NEXT STEPS: what is needed for regional cooperation (the countries’ own role)

Panel moderator: Raphael Koumeri, PLANET S.A.

  • Barriers to cooperation and recommendations for Western Balkan decision-makers

  • The role of higher education

  • The role of ICT industry

  • The role of policy-makers

Panel members:

  • Jelena Surculia, Assistant Minister of Telecommunications (Serbia)

  • Tatjana Knezevic, Ministry of Education & Science (Montenegro)

  • Miroslav Radinkovic, Ministry of Science and Technology, (Republika Srpska, BiH)

  • Diana Simic, chair eSEE initiative, CeGD (Croatia)

  • Betim Cico, Polytechnic University of Tirana; (Albania)

  • Neki Frasheri, Polytechnic University of Tirana; (Albania)

  • Zlatan Sabic, University of Sarajevo; (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

  • Dragan Domazet, Dean of Faculty of Information Technology (Serbia)

  • Kiril Minoski, USAID (FYR of Macedonia)

  • Ljubomir Trajkovski, Trajkovski & Partners (FYR of Macedonia)

18:00 - 20:00

Cocktail

Friday, 12 December 2008

09:00 - 09:20

Morning coffee

09:20 - 09:30

Summary from Day 1 (Ulrike Kunze, PT-DLR , WBC-INCO.NET)

WHAT IS NEEDED FOR REGIONAL COOPERATION: THE EU & REGIONAL DIMENSION

09:30 - 10:00

Opportunities for EU-Western Balkan research collaboration:

10:00 - 10:30

Development of Information Society in WBC / SEE: Contribution of neighboring & EU countries (Blaz Golob, CeGD, Slovenia)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break

PANEL DISCUSSION

11:00 - 12:30

THE NEXT STEPS: Concrete actions & recommendations for regional cooperation (EU & regional dimension)

Panel moderator: (Ulrike Kunze, PT-DLR, WBC-INCO.NET)

  • Briefing on outcomes of WBC-INCO.NET consultation session

  • Inputs for calls in the context of South East European ERA.Net PLUS and FP7

  • Proposal for major generic activities (etc. networking, infrastructure etc.); other

Panel members:

  • Natasa Radovic, Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society (Serbia)

  • Miroslav Radinkovic, Ministry of Science and Technology, (Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina)

  • Jozef Bushati, University of Shkodra (Albania)

  • Leid Zejnilovic, Dzemal Bijedic University (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

  • Vladimir Trajkovik, Faculty of Electircal Engineering & IT (FYR of Macedonia)

  • Sokol Haxhiu, UNDP (Albania)

  • Brano Vuijicic, Association for Information Technologies in BiH (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

  • Radovan Stojanovic, State University of Montenegro (Montenegro)

12:30 – 13:00

CLOSING SESSION: Presentation of the main conclusions and the way forward

(Raphael Koumeri, PLANET S.A., SCORE)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch

Documents First Day Presentations (4.72M)
Second Day Presentations (3.44M)
1) The EU FP7 ICT Theme (598.22K)
2) The ICT Environment in the Western Balkans (4.11M)
3) the Regional ICT R&D Priorities (491.87K)
4) Key barriers and challenges in ICT research (214.5K)
5) Summary from Day 1 (188.2K)
6) The Fourth ICT Call (1.06M)
7) FP6 project example: RACWeB (584.77K)
8) Development of IS in WBC/SEE (1.06M)
9) Inputs to 2nd panel discussion (873.22K)
FINAL AGENDA (689.47K)