MAINTAINING SECURITY IN THE RECESSION

President of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Mirko Cvetković, opened the Seventh Business Roundtable with the Government of Serbia called “Maintaining security in the recession”, organized by London magazine Economist, which was held in the Hotel Hyatt on Wednesday March 18 2009.
Prime Minister Cvetković spoke about the concrete actions that the Government take in order to maintain macroeconomic stability, the main priorities of the Government in the coming period, as well as the importance of arrangement with the IMF for Serbia. He said that to cover the budget deficit this year, Serbia would need from 1.2 to 1.5 billion euros.

TELEKOM

SOLIDARITY IN ACTION!

Telekom Serbia, in cooperation with Ministry of Education and Ministry of Telecommunication and Information Society and the special patronage of the President of the Republic of Serbia, organized the first donor meeting within the action “e-dukacij@”. Numerous representatives of the companies that supported this action, as well as many people from cultural and public life attended this event.

ECDL FOR ALL SCHOOLS!

FREE INFORMATION TRAINING BY EUROPEAN STANDARDS

Within the action “e-dukacij@“ organized by Telekom Serbia, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society at the donors' conference held in the Belgrade City Assembly, free computer and Internet training for all schools according to the ECDL model - European Computer Driving License was announced.

OECD

OECD: INCREASING SKILLS IN THE ICT SECTOR

The 4th Meeting of the South East Europe Investment Committee was held in Brussels on 7 April 2009. The Meeting has been focused on the financial crisis and possible policy responses, with interventions based on the latest macroeconomic figures for 2009 (FDI, exports, employment etc) and suggestions of policies that government has put in place and is planning to respond to the crisis.

ADULT EDUCATION, A CHANCE FOR SOCIAL-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF SERBIA

Minister of Education in the Government of the Republic of Serbia Žarko Obradović said that Serbia needed a Law on adult education, which should make multifunctional and diverse educational needs of the population become an integral part of a complete educational system.  At the opening of the conference "Adult education - the opportunity for socio-economic development of Serbia" Obradović said that the law could be found on the agenda of the parliament in October. He also recalled that the Government of Serbia adopted the Action Plan for the implementation of the Strategy for development of adult education in Republic of Serbia for the period from 2009 until 2010.

SBS

SOLUTION IN A BOX
IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances

End-to-End Web Security – Protecting Users and Servers against the Web Threats (part two)

In the previous edition, we presented Web Security Appliance manufactured by IronPort (now within Cisco Systems), which is used to protect the corporate gateway, i.e. to control web traffic and protect corporate network users.

PosInfoJN

Monitoring of public procurement
Application for monitoring of public procurement

Application for tracking the process of public procurement includes monitoring of all activities from planning to implementation and financial monitoring of public procurement. Application consists of the following modules:

• Registry data
• Traffic data – public procurement
• Traffic data – financial accounting
• Traffic data – trade accounting
Reviews, statistics.

SIEMENS

Disaster Recovery in Siemens production

On February 12th, Siemens Ltd and its sector, Siemens IT Solutions and Services, organized the meeting whose panelists talked about their solutions intended for IT disaster recovery.
Director Dragan Stokić welcomed the present, while Dragan Radenkov, Head of the Directorate for system services, talked about the global business of Siemens Company. Their addressing served as an introduction for two guests’ from Austria and Germany presentations, although one it was about warming up, since Belgrade was cold and covered with snow that day.

SIEMENS

Partnership Contract between Microsoft and Siemens

Siemens Ltd. Belgrade, Siemens IT Solutions and Services   became a Microsoft Gold partner at the beginning of 2009.  By improving the partnership in the Serbian market, it joined the exclusive company of reputable companies that have this highest-rank Microsoft partnership.
Siemens IT Solutions and Services is a global Microsoft Gold Certified partner with more than 2,300 certified employees worldwide, and co-operation longer than 20 years. With over 40,000 employees and presence in more than 40 countries, Siemens IT Solutions and Services is one of the leading IT companies in Europe and among 10 largest companies in the world.

TELEKOM

Observer - A Modern Solution for More Efficient Business

Modern Age is the age of many technological innovations and advanced information ideas that can substantially contribute to more efficient business, and provide companies the ability to fully focus on their core business. Successful companies increasingly rely on the use of specialized solutions that information and telecommunications companies develop, as exactly in these industries, the most dynamic progress is noted. These comprehensive solutions offer numerous opportunities for business improvement in various segments.

NPS

NAV EXPRESS 5.0 – ERP made to measure small successful companies

At the beginning of April, NPS moved to new address. If you have thought this sentence does not belong here, the only thing you can do now is to read the text below.
Although the business premise where we spent last three years, on the second floor of a well-known business building in New Belgrade, met all our needs at the moment we moved in, already after a year it turned out we needed more space. Right at that moment, three offices on the ground floor of the same building became available. We quickly made additional agreement and solved the problem temporarily.

TeleGroup

TELEGROUP - GOOD COMMUNICATIONS ECONOMIZE IN CRISIS

In the previous issue, we talked about solutions and services meant for SMB market. This time we will talk about the part of product portfolio of the company TeleGroup that refers to the large business systems, which certainly includes Public Administration and its institutions. In the world of economic crisis, when the cost rationalization is a priority in entire business and at all levels, we suggest ICT solutions that can certainly contribute to savings in the field of communications.

BUSINESS MEETINGS IN LJUBLJANA

Delegation of 25 business entrepreneurs, organized by Belgrade Chamber of Commerce, visited Ljubljana from 2nd to 4th April 2009. One delegation consisted of representatives of our magazine InfoReview. During their stay, business meetings with Slovenian enterprises were organized. The hosts of delegations were Crafts and Slovenian Economic Chamber.
Businessmen, members of the delegation expressed satisfaction with the made contacts and information collected during the visit and expressed the wish to make, through Belgrade Chamber, more direct contacts with businessmen from other countries in the region. 

ECDL AT MEGATREND UNIVERSITY

The ECDL is the world’s leading certification program for end-users of personal computers. The ECDL Foundation, as a non-profit organization was established under the auspices of the leading European national computer associations CEPIS members. With its official document dated February 17th 2003 No. COM 796, European Commission established a single framework of transparency of qualifications and competency - Europass, which article 1.2.5 defined the ECDL as a standard for internationally recognized IT training and qualification for information societies.

ETF

Open Day of the Students of Electrical Engineering

A traditional 23th Congress of European electrical engineering student was held from 20 to 30 March 2009. The organizer of this event was the Association of Students of Electrical Engineering Europe EESTEC, the local committees Belgrade and Sarajevo. More than 130 students from 45 European universities gathered to improve their cooperation and they spent the first five days of Congress in Belgrade, and the other five in Sarajevo.
Opening ceremony of the Congress was held on Saturday, 21 March in the House of the National Assembly. Besides the Congress participants, the representatives of Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade and the Faculty of Electrical Engineering attended the opening, wishing students successful work and nice stay in the host countries.

AIESC

BizIT International Conference 2009

Student organization AIESEC and Faculty of Economics in Belgrade at the beginning of April, held bizIT conference for the first time on the topic information technologies
In the pleasant ambience of the Belgrade Fair hall through lectures, presentations and discussions on selected topics, participants had the opportunity to expand their knowledge and meet the needs and business of large trade companies. Students realized the possibilities and importance of applying the information technologies as one of the most important factors of competitiveness in the global business, as well as the importance of information literacy for the successful implementation of IT in business.

ECDL IAN

ECDL Certificate Assigned to People with Impaired Hearing

CEPIS

WOMEN WILL HAVE MORE SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES!

FLOWER OF SUCCESS FOR A WOMAN-DRAGON

Section Women's Business Club, Association of Business Women in early March, organized the press conference regarding the competition for the most successful women entrepreneurs in 2009, called "Flower of success for a woman-dragon”.
The panelists who addressed the present were:
Mr. Sanja Popović-Pantić, President of Association of Business Women,
Jasna Matić, Minister for Telecommunications and Information Society of the Government of the Republic of Serbia,
Snezana Lakićević Stojačić, Secretary of State in Ministry of Labor and Social Policy,
Vesna Perić, Head of the Agency for foreign Investment and Export Promotion (SIEPA),
Olivera Popović, Vice President of Association of Business Women and Coordinator of Women's Business Club.

Allied Telesis

RESELLER DAY – RESELLER TRAINING

INFOTEH - JAHORINA

Origin and Destiny of the Universe

VITRO GROUP CITROEN PRESENTS - PAL ZILERI

In organization of the company Filinvest, the Italian house for top-class men fashion "Pal Zileri" held XXI fashion show "Citroen presents-Pal Zileri" in Expo Center, on which Collection spring-summer 2009 was presented. The audience was shown three lines: "Pal Zileri” (classic line), “Pal Zileri Concept” (the sports line) and "Pal Zileri lab” (so-called sexy elegance).  About ten models, including a singer, Sergej Ćetković, walked the runway in three-shade suits.