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ICT Basics for Central and Eastern Europe
Günther KrumpakITBeurope
For Michigan State University/Int‘l Study Programs, Prague
Geography
Economy
Growth in % GDP New EU members +4.2 (´04) +4.4 (´05)
EU-15 +2.0 +2.4
Leading:Baltic "Tigers" Lithuania (6.9/6.6), Latvia (6.2/6.2) Estonia (5.4/5.9)Slovakia (4.5/5.0), Poland (4.5/4.5), Hungary (3.5/3.9), Slovenia (3.4/3.5) und die Czech Republic (3.0/3.5).
ICT
• Market shares (´02)North America 31%Europe 29% ~ € 590 bnCEE ~ 50 bnLeading: Poland ~ 15 bn (pop. 40 mill.)(Austria ~ 20 bn; pop. 8 mill.)
Example: Siemens Austria€ 3.7 bn (+1.4 % in ´03, but + 23 % to € 750 Mio. in CEE (Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia-Montenegro and Romania.
One of the few remaining playgrounds for global players
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Poland and Czech Republic leading
Compare Slovenia to Poland
+73% mobile lines
Conventional vs. Mobile 3:2
PCs: Business to come
PCs: +38% in 2 years
PC penetration: Slovenia 27%
PC penetration: Average 10%
Internet: Estonia leading
Internet growth: Czech Republic +400%
ICT Industry
• Widespread presence of multinationals(IBM, MS, HP, Oracle etc.)
• Growing no. of local business
Example: SlovakiaOverall IT market volume € 2.3 bn (3.4% of Slovakia’s GDP) IT 42.1%Telecom 47.9%Annual growth 20%
Example: Slovakia
• > 50% of overall volume from Slovak IT companies• Multis outsource considerable part of production• Increasing transfer of production into the country
• IT Spending by Technology 2001 in %
Multi user systems 15,7%
Single User systems 29,0%
Data communications equipment 6,9%
Packaged Software 19,5%
IT Services 28,9%
Example: Slovakia cont`d.
Austria
• Vienna‘s Part in CEE IT Business
Most major multis handle CEE IT markets from Vienna (HP, IBM, EMC, Canon, Sony DADC, Siemens, Philips, Hitachi DS, SAP, CSC, Cognos etc., ~ > 50)HP handling > 90 countries from Vienna
• Overall volume ~ € 10 bn = 20% of CEE IT market
No. 1 location in CEE market know how (market research, services, law, tax, headhunting, offices, PR etc.)
More information
• Vienna Business Agency WWFF www.wwff.gv.at
• Austrian Business Agency ABA www.aba.gv.at
• ITBeurope www.itbeurope.org