SEFICT

SEFICT marked by e-Perspective

The ninth SEFICT – South East Europe Forum ICT was held on 16 June in the beautiful ambient of the hotel Excelsior in Dubrovnik, in the organisation of commercial chambers and ICT societies from the region. Djordje Dukic, the General Secretary of SEFICT, opened the Forum with the welcoming speech, highlighting that this manifestation was becoming more and more important not just because of cooperation within the region, but with the other countries of Europe.

Energy Efficiency – Strong Incentives for Economic Development of Serbia and the Region

Political, economic, and ecological reasons, as well as the growing need for more intensive use of existing energy resources, which would be followed by more accelerated industrial development, demand that Serbia develops new sources of energy and energy efficiency. Improvement of energy efficiency is one of the priorities of national Strategy of Sustainable Development, but it is also one of the prerequisites that need to be satisfied in order for Serbia to become one of the Member States of the European Union. Energy efficiency is a level of rational energy use. If the level is higher, we are more energy efficient as a country. Energy efficiency is mapped out in the Strategy for Development of Serbian Energetics until the year 2015 as a priority, but there is still a lot to be done in this area. In the next 10 years, in the field of energy efficiency, Serbia could come closer to developed countries, but only if certain appropriate measures are taken and if the state provides a stronger support.

Bled

The Crisis as an Excellent Opportunity for Creating Innovative Ideas
Within the European Leadership Centre (ELC), which operates in IEDC – Bled School of Management, the 8th conference under the name “Do European Leaders Notice the Future and Look for Creative Solutions?” was successfully closed. The conference gathered 90 representatives from the business world, non-governmental organisations, media, as well as deans and directors of schools of management, and experts from the field of leadership from 21 countries, who dedicate themselves to the issues of European leadership in order to contribute to the improvement of European way of leadership.

Bled–Kopaonik

Economic Future and Management Challenges
The 2010 SEE Management Forum Bled – Kopaonik, September 16 and 17, 2010
IEDC – Bled School of Management, Slovenia
The representatives of our magazine Inforeview again had the pleasure to attend the 8th European Leadership Centre conference. We took the opportunity to talk to Professor Danica Purg, the founding and current President of the IEDC-Bled School of Management, so we could announce another important event.
We heard that you are organising a special event together with the Serbian Economists Association? 

Corporate Philanthropy or Free Advertisement

Socially responsible behaviour has become an indispensable part of business of all companies which care for their reputation. In the time of the crisis, the need for any kind of charity is growing, while the available resources of companies intended for helping the people in trouble are reducing. In that situation, the question is whether the help of the government should be expected, or that would be too dangerous because of the misuse. Media, which should separate socially responsible behaviour from the attempts to get a cheap commercial, are even in a more delicate situation. Apart from that, media are also companies which have the obligation to help the society as well. At the conference organised by the Business Info group and Vreme weekly at the hotel Hyatt, under the name “Media, companies and social responsibility”, the President of the Republic of Serbia, Boris Tadic, managers of the biggest printed media and televisions, as well as representatives of companies opened many questions, but gave a few propositions concerning how to make it easier for companies to help the community and return the part of what they had earned.

International Business Sector in Serbia 2010

Vice-president of the government and the Minister of Economy and Regional Development, Mladjan Dinkic stressed on the recently held conference International Business Sector in Serbia 2010 that the growth in gross domestic product in Serbia this year would be more than two percent. The revenue budget during the first five months of the year was six percent higher than in the same period last year, and the cumulative growth of exports during the first four months was 18 percent. The recovery of industry is advancing in a positive manner, but the problem is the construction, so the country intervened and prepared the package of measures to encourage the demands.

FIC

Foreign Investors Council -experience and example of successful business
With great pleasure we spoke with Mrs.Vera Nikolic Dimic who is heading the Telecommunications&IT Committee within the Foreign Investors Council, association of more than 120 foreign investors invested so far $14 billion in the country. Mrs Nikolic Dimic is at the same time Head of Regulatory Affairs of the Vip mobile company.
We are asking her hereby, when this Committee has been established and what its work is about?
Telecommunications&IT Committee is operating within the Foreign Investors Council, as you already mentioned.  We think that this association of mostly big, multinational companies, beside the investment already made, has the great capacity for transferring also the knowledge and the know-how of the countries from which these investments originate. Also, it possesses the experiences and best practices of the different business environments of origin, and the favourable business environment is the necessary precondition for having successful and legal business operation. This “favourable business environment” is actually the main topic of our work and standing dialogue with the state.

WIMA 2010

Think global, act local
The fourth annual Wireless Information Multimedia Applications Exhibition (WIMA 2010) was again this year held in Monaco. InfoReview magazine, as one and only representative of regional media at this conference, is thankful to organizers of this exceptional event and we are pleased to inform our readers about this conference.
WIMA has established itself as the leading global event for  Near-Field-Communications (NFC), a short-range wireless system built into mobile phones, allowing them to be used in many different ways.
With 40 exhibitors from 15 countries it provided an excellent showcase for the world of NFC and contactless communications.

MDS

Mathematical Gymnasium and MDS informatics engineering
The Network of Knowledge, Experience, and Professionalism
If we were to ask a random passer-by whether he knew of a school with 550 pupils and 350 medals from world competitions (with a possible little help that the competitions being talked about are mathematics, physics, and informatics), it is less likely that he wouldn’t know the correct answer – Mathematical Gymnasium in Belgrade – since no other school in the world could can be proud of with these results, because no school has the results as nearly as close. Similar gymnasium in Moscow, for instance, has around one hundred medals, and that one is the second strongest one in the world.

Reception of Students of Mathematical Gymnasium in the Ministry for Diaspora

In the Ministry for Diaspora, the State Secretary Miodrag Jaksic admitted the students of Mathematical Gymnasium who received full scholarship for studying at the prestigious Trinity College in Cambridge in the Great Britain. On the occasion, the State Secretary handed in the flag of the Republic of Serbia in order to remind them of their own country during their stay in England. Likewise, he expressed his expectations that after their finished studies, these talented students will contribute to the development of Serbia with their gained experience.

ECDL

Digital Agenda for Europe
ECDL Foundation welcomes the Commission’s Digital Agenda to promote economic recovery, and to improve social circumstances through a more competitive, inclusive, and digitally streamlined Europe. The Digital Agenda (19th May 2010) is the first of seven flagship initiatives under the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.
Improved accessibility, employability, and education through enhanced ICT skills are integral to the mission of ECDL Foundation, and as the leading international digital skills certification authority, ECDL Foundation supports the Agenda’s identification of the need for improved ICT skills for all citizens as a measure to stimulate economic growth in Europe.

The Ministry of Justice and PE PTT Traffic “Serbia“

Protocol on Cooperation
The Minister of Justice Snezana Malovic and the General Manager of PE PTT Traffic “Srbija” Goran Ciric signed a Protocol on Cooperation, which will enable the Ministry of Justice and judicial institutions in Serbia to use qualified electronic certificates of the Serbian Post Certification Authority, which is a basis for expanding the network of electronic signature users within the CMS program. The Minister of Justice Snezana Malovic reminded that the business and technical cooperation began in 2009 with the introduction of electronic signatures, and was continued at the beginning of this year within the CMS program through making records of certified agreements on the real estate transactions, with the address code of  “PTT“, and had already given significant results.  She stressed that since 4 weeks ago, the average time of the certification at the counters was 4 minutes per case, i.e 10 times faster compared to the time needed in January and February.

The Ministry of Justice: Digital Literacy – Legal Security

Interview with Mrs.Snezana Malovic, Minister of Justice of the Republic of Serbia
What can you say about the plans for development of IT training of employees of the Ministry of Justice?

Scholarships for Serbian female scientists

By signing a cooperation protocol between the Ministry for Science and Technological Development, L’Oréal Balkan company, and National Commission for UNESCO, the competition for young female scientists involved in scientific research in the field of natural sciences was opened. This program provides scholarships within the world famous project “Women in Science” on the national level, and its goal is the provision of support to young women in further scientific and professional development.

15th Congress JISA DCIG held

In the period from 13 to 19 June, the 15th anniversary Congress JISA DICG was held in the organisation of JISA – Union of ICT Societies of Serbia, and DICG – Montenegrin ICT Society. Mr Adis Balota, the assistant to the Minister of the Information Society of Montenegro, opened the Congress, highlighting the importance this manifestation had for the development of information and communication technologies in the region and presenting the plans which would increase the efficiency of new technologies in respect to the development of information society, increase of work results and economic development of Montenegro and the region. 

EEIG

Stars for the Quality

Kempinski Hotel Adriatic

Kempinski Hotel Adriatic is the first Croatian 5 star luxury seaside Golf & Spa Resort. Located on the north-western coast of Istria, the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea, the Hotel offers a stunning view over Croatia, Slovenia, Italy and the Austrian Alps.

VLATACOM

Hotel Registration System
Introduction Vlatacom Hotel Registration System automatically reads visitor's data from his or her ID document and either stores them locally, or transmits them to the relevant authority, according to the procedure in place in the country of visit.
FeaturesThis system reduces the check-in duration to seconds, increasing the personnel efficiency, shortening the lines at the front-desk and improving the visitor satisfaction. In cases when local police procedures require visit reporting, the visitors will not be requested anymore to leave their passports at the hotel reception desk overnight, but will be able to retrieve them immediately.The overall public safety is thus greatly improved to the satisfaction of all parties involved.
In smaller hotels and in cases when central reporting is not required, a reduced system can be used, consisting of a single workstation, connected to the Vlatacom ID document reader VDR-1. In such a case, the data are automatically read and stored on the workstation for check-in and check-out processing.

Networking Serbia 2010

Conference “Networking Serbia 2010”, organised by Business Dialogue, with the support from the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Society, gathered representatives of the biggest companies, providers of IT services and integrated solutions for small and complex systems, as well as end users of those services from the whole Serbia. Special guests of this meeting were representatives of government agencies and the Institute of Information Society and Telecommunications, representatives of foreign chambers of commerce in Serbia, representatives of the biggest foreign companies that operate in Serbia, and general and top managers of the biggest foreign companies that operate in Serbia. Speaking about the Strategy and Action plan about the promotion of broadband Internet access in the Republic of Serbia until 2012, which was the first topic at the conference, the Minister of Telecommunications Jasna Matic highlighted the harmonisation with EU regulations, which includes the liberalisation of the markets of telecommunications and postal services, together with the support to scientific researches and participation of Serbian scientists in European programmes.

TeleGroup

As part of the Motorola Day event, TeleGroup Beograd and Motorola presented a new, digital platform for modern radio communications

Microsoft

Cloud and Portal for Synergy 10
For this issue, as our interlocutor we chose Borko Kovacevic from Microsoft, who is the leader of the business group for server products, but our intention was not to talk about servers. On this occasion, we were more interested in his second position – the Director of Synergy. We wanted to get some first-hand information on the upcoming Synergy 10, and we also asked him to give us a retrospect of the previous 10 years of this IT conference, which have becoming more and more business-oriented. That is why our first question was:
Synergy is today an undoubtedly important and well known IT meeting, but when, how, and why was it established and what changes has it gone through?
Everything started in 2001. That year has always been interesting to me, since that is when the idea on a national and regional conference, which should mark the entrance of Microsoft in the Serbian market, was created.

NPS

Service oriented solutions

Forum BISEC 2010

The 2nd Conference on Information Systems Security
This is for the second time that Information Security Conference “forum BISEC” (www.bisec.rs) was held, on May 25th, at The National bank of Serbia. It was organized by METROPOLITAN University, like the last year, but this time The Mathematical institute of Serbian Academy of Arts was also involved. The Conference was supported by The Ministry of Science and Technological Development and National Bank of Serbia. The key speaker was Dragan Domazet Ph.D., full professor and rector of METROPOLITAN University.

Fourth International CRM Conference held in Belgrade

Marketing and consulting agency I Team organised for the fourth time now already traditional international CRM Conference in the modern premises of Zira hotel in Belgrade.

2nd Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry of South-East Europe

2nd Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry of South-East Europe (RSE-SEE) was held in Belgrade, in Congress Center Sava, June 6-10, 2010. The 2nd Regional Symposium on Electrochemistry of South-East Europe is organized by 9 societies: Bulgarian Electrochemical Society, Czech Chemical Society, Croatian Society of Chemical Engineers, Electrochemical Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Chemical Society of Montenegro, Romanian Chemical Society, Electrochemical Division of the Serbian Chemical Society, Slovenian Chemical Society and Society of Chemists and Technologists of Macedonia.

SABEL

Transforming Wi-Fi from a Toy into a Tool
S.A.B.E.L. improves business of its partners by bringing forward-thinking approach to the partnership, based on the huge experience in the IT and telecommunication industry and relations with the top players in each segment where it works. It offers the world class of ITC products, solutions and consulting services to its customers – Telecom, NSP Operators, system integrators, distributors, and over partners to the enterprise clients. In this article we are presenting top Wi-Fi technologies delivered in Ruckus Wireless products, and present on the Serbian market via our partner SAGA.

Terazije Theatre

AWAKENING
After a great success of ballet performances “La Capinera” (2007) and “Zemlja” (“Earth”) (2008), Terazije Theatre has, as a part of its repertoire plan for the season 2009/2010, prepared a new ballet performance “Awakening”, directed by Bosko Djordjrevic according to the libretto of Vuk Rsumovic. Choreography is made by Michele Merola, costumes by Andrijana Simovic, while original music is written by Slobodan Markovic.