Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Technologies Programme Promotion to Baltic States
www.infobalt.lt/telebaltwww.infobalt.lt/telebalt
EU IST Project
TELEBALTLithuania
Mr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, President of Association INFOBALT
Mr. Dziugas Juknys, Project Director, [email protected], Tel. +370 698 01525
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EU IST Project TELEBALT
Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Programme promotion to Baltic States
www.infobalt.lt/telebalt
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EU IST Project TELEBALTEU IST Project TELEBALT
Promotion of IST program in Baltic States.
Present telework, telemedicine and virtual labor communities in the Baltic States.
Support and present 10-month projects’ proposals for the IST program.
Conduct the ITT research in the Lithuania.
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EU IST Project TELEBALTEU IST Project TELEBALT
Create the Information Distribution Center in the Lithuania (IDC)
Present the IST goals, possibilities and results to the audiences of the Republic of the Lithuania.
Ensure the means of distance learning and promote IST program.
Present the results of realizing the IST project to the telematic community of the Lithuania in accordance with the tendencies of European telematics expansion.
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Problems of Lithuania and telework Unemployment – economy - living standard
Regional development
Digital divide
Rural development
Export of specialists and workers
Special groups of workers:
Disabled
Students – additional work and practice
Pensioners
Employment problems in Visaginas district (near Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant)
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Telework governing structures of LithuaniaTelework governing structures of Lithuania Information Society Development Committee of the
Seimas and Information Society Development Committee under the Government
Social Affairs and Labour Committee of the Seimas and Ministry of Social Security and Labour
Lithuanian Labour Market Training Authority
14 LABOUR MARKET TRAINING CENTRES
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National Strategy for Information Society Development of Lithuania
9.2. Education of the society:
opportunities for all;
new organisational structure of the society encouraging people to continuously seek new knowledge;
knowledge and competence centres;
mechanism for recognition of distance education (formalisation);
networks for creation, storage and dissemination of virtual knowledge.
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National Strategy for Information Society Development of Lithuania
9.4. Digital divide:
systems of re-training;
distance consultation and social assistance centres
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INFOBALT Association The INFOBALT activities in the ICT frameworks of the
European Union serve as a catalyst for the growth of the information society in Lithuania.
Established in 1994.
154 members of Association INFOBALT include:
Lithuanian information technologies, telecommunications and office equipment companies.
Higher education and research institutions and other education institutions.
Public organizations and concultancy firms.
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Mission of the Association Infobalt Consolidate, within the framework of the Association,
Lithuania-based companies engaged in such fields as the IT, telecommunications, office supplies, and production of electronics to operate jointly.
Seek to ensure favourable conditions for the development of the IST industry with an aim of raising its share in the national GDP to 20%.
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Mission of the Association Infobalt Partake and promote joint partnership initiatives
together with science, culture and business communities as well as authorities.
Boost the flow of foreign investments to the Lithuanian IST sector.
Enable the Lithuanian IST sector to fulfil its potential on the global markets.
Support education, science and programmes promoting development of the information society.
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Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and science technologies for the next 5 years
Protection of e-accounting and m-accounting systems by e-signature and bio-metric voice and finger-pint technologies.
Development of e-business applications in ERP, SCM and CRM fields.
Development of open source technologies creating business applications.
Electronic sensors for food, security and other industrial sectors of Lithuania.
Laser technologies related to ITT.
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Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and science technologies for the next 5 years
Scientific computer applications for biotechnology sector – development of databases and hardware instruments.
Development of multimedia products (applications, encyclopedia, multilingual programs, Internet sites, CDs, DVD, etc.).
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Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and science technologies for the next 5 years
Implementation services of traditional hardware (programming).
Programs (PKI, etc.) of e-signature for e-business, e-government and e-education
Development of such systems like Intellect-House, social security, hospital, transport, etc.
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National Program of Public Internet Access Points (PIAP)
The task of the program – 2002-2004 m. in sixty Lithuanian local administration and 535 municipalities (464 of them are rural) establish 595 centers giving Internet services for residents free of charge.
Intitial investments – 17,9 mln. Lt.
Strategical goal – diminution of informative public digital isolation between Lithuanian cities and regions, residents with different level of income (digital divide).
One of the goals – make a tipical basic set of services for residents and representatives of small and average business.
In 2002 has to be established 43 PIAP centers
2003 - 276 PIAP centers
2004 - 276 PIAP centers.
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Why does Lithuania need Science and Technology White Paper? Prerequisites for R&D progress in Lithuania
Lithuania manufactures high technology products and services
Potential for applied research is in place
Lithuanian industry uses fundamental technologies:
Information technologies
Biotechnologies
Laser industry
Nano technologies
Sufficient industry and science concentration
Integration into the EU technological area accelerates and cheapens investments
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TELEBALT Workpackages for LT
WP2 - the IDC in Vilnius.
WP2 - the TELEBALT main Web-site.
WP2 - the CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”.
WP3 - the TELEBALT main conference.
WP4 - PL@ZA Groupware for the EU - Baltic States Team Work.
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TELEBALT Deliverables – INFOBALT responsible Evaluation report of TELEBALT main conference in
Vilnius.
Adaptation of PL@ZA groupware for EU member countries - Baltic States teleworking.
CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”.
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TELEBALT Deliverables – INFOBALT responsible Evaluation report of TELEBALT main conference in
Vilnius.
Adaptation of PL@ZA groupware for EU member countries - Baltic States teleworking.
CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”.
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TELEBALT Conference “Teleworking for Business, Education, Research and e-Commerce”
Vilnius, Lithuania, 21-22 October 2002
100 speakers from 25 countries
300 participants from 6 countries
173 on line participants
13 workshops
110 presentations
24 presentations of IST projects
10 video – conference connections
The TELEBALT Conference was a major event of the FP5 IST programme in the Baltic countries.
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Session on Algorithm TELEBALT Algorithmical Resource: Artificial
Intelligence Algorithms On-line
The second discussion on the initiation of a creation of the library of algorithmic artificial intelligence resources took place in the TELEBALT conference on 22 October, 2002
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Session on AlgorithmAs a result the following suggestions were made:
To set up a WWW page in the INFOBALT web site for disseminating information concerning TAR( Telebalt algorithmic resources) and collecting feedback suggestions from the Baltic countries and all interested parties.
To find out what kind of AI resources are available in Baltic countries and countries participants of the TELEBALT project. The findings are going to be presented in the next TELEBALT event in Riga 2003.
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TELEBALT Stand at the Annual International Information Society Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002”
23-26 October, 2002
Vilnius, Litexpo Trade Fair Center
200 participants from 20 countries
60 000 visitors
80 000 on line visitors of virtual trade fair
INFOBALT Science and Technology Park “Partnership of Business and Science”
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TELEBALT Stand at the Annual International Information Society Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002”
TELEBALT Stand presented:
some documents on Key Action “New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce”;
information about TELEBALT Project and training course;
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TELEBALT Stand at the Annual International Information Society Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002”
new methods and tools of team work “TEAMwork - an integrated solution to support distributed e-working teams”, Collaborative Browsing toolkit (CoBrow), European Knowledge Platform (EKP) and Basic Support for Cooperative Work (BSCW), Virtual Presence System (VPS), Teamware Pl@za.
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Telework presentations
List of carried on and planned presentations
BIT&T conference, Riga, April 2002
LT Computer Society, Education Section
Non-gov organization “Fractal Club”
LT Parliament Info Society Development Committee
LT Local authorities training workshop, Druskininkai
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Telework presentations (planed and under discussion)
LT Parliament ‘Committee on Social Affairs and Labour (under discussion)
LT Statistics Dept (under discussion)
LT Custom dept (under discussion)
Warsaw conference “Launch of 6FP in Poland”, November 25, 2002 (planed)
LT Ministry of Environment (under discussion)
LT InfoSociety Development Committee (under discussion)
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Information Demonstration Centre
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IDC
goals
functions
possible tools (website, e-library, periodic meetings, EU IST products demo worksops, Domain Knowledge Centres)
Telework Domain Knowledge Centre
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Telework Domain Knowledge Centre as Ontology based application
main features
plan for future – develop as Ontology-based Web application
Ontology-based applications – part of 6FP
Information sources DB – Enter & Edit Form
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Training and self-training information systems building tool
Personal, team and company e-Library
Information collecting and semi-automatic generating of surveys and reports
Document annotation self-automated generation
Research and Development information analysis system
Ontology-based Web applicationsProposals for Partnership
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Documents (e.g. legal acts) storehouse with ontology-based search
Information transforming to Knowledge system
Website structure ontology – support of website enhancement and search
Situation evaluation, problem identification, alternative generation and decision making system
Ontology-based Web applicationsProposals for Partnership
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Management of project group (clusters)
Information and Knowledge Quality Checking system
Integration of Business Intelligence products and Domain ontology
Ontology-based CRM application
Ontology-based Web applicationsProposals for Partnership
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Partnership supporting intelligent system
Contracts and project proposals support system
Intelligent interactive consulting system
Product and services catalogue development system
Ontology-based Web applicationsProposals for Partnership
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Thank you for nice attention
Mr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, President of Association INFOBALT
Mr. Dziugas Juknys, Project Director, [email protected], Tel. +370 698 01525