|
5th SEFICT held in Belgrade, Hotel Intercontinental.
 From 22-24 May in Belgrade’s Hotel Intercontinental, was held the fifth International Assembly of representatives of Information and Communication Technologies from areas of former Yugoslavia. This time next to the achievements from Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, we had a chance to see a great number of presentations from other parts of the world: Australia, Argentina, Tunisia, Lithuania, England, Belgium, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria... The most significant vendors of ICT equipment in our market, were present at the Conference: SAP, IBIS-SYS a Siemens company, IBM, Fujistu Siemens, Cisco, Allied Telesyn, Bull, Microsoft, S&T, Oracle and others. SEFICT was supported by domestic institutions: Ministry of Commerce and Tourism, Belgrade Chamber of Economy and Serbian Chamber of Economy.
 The minister of Economy and Tourism in the Government of Serbia, Mr. Bojan dr Dimitrijevic, opened the fifth SEFICT Conference - South East Europe Forum for Information and Communication Technologies, and emphasised his pleasure that this year’s Forum, after being held twice in Herceg Novi and twice in Dubrovnik, is finally held in Belgrade. Mr. Dimitrijević also expressed hope and belief that we will be successfull in getting the organisation of such a valuable assembly for our country in the forthcoming years.
 In his address speach, President of JISA – Union of ICT Society of our country and General Secretary of SEFICT, Mr. Djordje Dukic pointed out that this year’s Conference, with more than 80 foreigners and with the interest shown by countries from this region, demonstrates a turning-point in further development of SEFICT - South East Europe Forum ICT, which from primarily and qualitatitvely realised idea of improving international cooperation in the region developed from the initial definitive obligatory: connection of the region with the European Union and other parts of the world.
 Between conducters of SEFICT, there was Mr. Aleksandar Bojanowsky. As the CEO of CEPIS - Council of Europian Professional Informatics Societies he emphasized the huge importance of association of professionals from IC technology in Europe and their influence on basic level of education , and also the rise of informatic literacy inside and arround EU. He underlined that EU, with it's activity with FP7 in comming peroid 2007-2011, is ready to invest in additional education of all people who started their work before the use of computers , and on that way to span the gap not just between older and younger administrators, but both informaticly developed and those less developed countries of our continent.
During SEFICT Conference 87 presentations were held on Plenary and Special Sessions,
as well as a great number of in advance agreed Bilateral Discussions. The general
impression is that with the courtesy of extremely interesting topics and very
interesting speakers the Conference was visited by a great number of domestic
representatives of Commerce, Education and Science but the greatest attention and
significant attendance attracted two "round tables" held the first and second day of the SEFICT Conference.
Round Table ECDL
 First, the topic EDUCATION AND EUROPEAN STANDARDIZATION was opened by the executive director of CEPIS Office - Council of European Professional Informatics Societies, Mr. Alexander Bojanowsky, where it was stressed that CEPIS with cooperation of European Committee has established ECDL Foundation with the purpose to balance informatic education among member countries, and that the implementation of ECDL certificates has reached a much bigger application than expected with a clear concept and practical use, with the result that this certificate today is used in over 140 countries of the world, which with the fact that 6 milion are certified, places it at a highly superior level which is often obligatory in most European countries.
 With this topic were presented two ECDL Test Centres from Croatia: ELIT TRADE, presented by Mr. Vladimir Batusic,the executive director, who pointed out their significant results on the testing of scholastic personnel of Croatian schools financed by the Government of Croatia, petrochemical industry INA, and many other enterprises and associations. The Test Center ALGEBRA from Zagreb, got its first ATES certificate ECDL Foundation for automatic ECDL testing in one of the Slav languages. This application, during the two years work of creating and harmonizing it, has finally got ready for an experimental period which is to last untill the end of this year. Thereafter a final correction will be made and it will be included in everyday work. All interested ECDL Test Centers in Serbia and Montenegro, will be able to get a temporary code for performing trial testings and distance training.
 From domestic ECDL Test Centers at the Round Table were presented Integra as Centre with the most experience and many years work on reeducation of military employees by implementing ECDL training donated by England, EBC with its results achieved in first year of the work, testing of employees of Ministry for Internationl Economy Relations, Serbiaroads, small and middle- sized enterprises, and first phases of creating domestic automatic testing for ECDL. This year the best result has been achieved by the ECDL Test Center of Economy Faculty of Subotica. Taking example from Italy, Hungary, Austria and other countries of the EU, the abbove faculty has completely modulated an exam program of Informatics with an ECDL Syllabus. In this way students are able to get faster an ECDL degree together with their economy degree, and at the same time get an acknowledgment of Informatics exam as one of the terms for any other faculty in EU countries..
Round Table ERP
 The Second Round table was organized by the Republican Agency for small and middle-sized enterprises, Belgrade Chamber of Economy and JISA INFO Magazine with the following topic SUPERVISION OF RESOURCES OF ENTERPRISES WITH HELP OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR BUSINESSMEN OF SMALL AND MIDDLE SIZED ENTERPRISES. The conference was conducted by Ana Zegarac, Executive Director of Agency, Ivane Zeljković, General Secretary of PKB and Dubravke Dukić, Director of JISA Magazine. Initiatory presentations were given by:
- SAP - Don Fry, SAP UK Ltd; Igor Brnabic, Account Manager
- IBIS-SYS a siemens company - Srdjan Lukic, Key Account Manager;Ksenija Mitrovic, SAP Consultant
- S&T – Milan Papulic, ERP Consultant
- Oracle SCG doo - Vanja Vukajlovic, Channel Manager
- Microsoft Software doo – Dejan Cvetkovic, General Manager; Nenad Aleksic, Microsoft Dynamics Account Manager
- IBM WTC Representative Office - Goran Babic, Head of the IBM WTC Rep. Office Belgrade ; Dejan Bajic - STG Manager
- CISCO Systems - Goran Obradovic, Account Manager
JISA Congress
 The third day of the Conference, on 11 thJISA Congress were presented predominantly domestic experiences and experiences from closest environment. We single out the presentations of the following companies: BULL, IBM WTC Belgrade, Allied Telesyn, EMC, MK Commerce, SIP, KONSING, Serbian Railways, PTT, Belgrade Bus stationsBAS, TREF Slovenia , and systems for digital archive of company MFC&L from Ljubljana and MFC from Belgrade
As regards a general European influence of ECDL, JISA Congress had many presentations from an area of education where many Slovenian Education Institutions were presented  from Kranj, Bistrice and Jasenica, Ministry o f Science and Environment of Serbia, The Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade, Technical Faculty “Mihajlo Pupin” from Zrenjanina, and High Schools from Subotica, Zaječar, Ivanjica, Bor, Belgrade and Doboj.
Direct Internet transmission for all interested in the world, during whole Conference was provided in cooperation with Belgrade chamber of Economy and ABIES NET company over internet, on websites www.sefict.org and www.kombeg.org.yu
|
Executive
board:
Coordinator: Djordje Dukic,
Secretary General of SEFICT
Members:
Sofija Jovanovska – Chamber
of Economy of Macedonia
Tomislav Milic – Chamber of
Economy of Montenegro
Aca Aleksic - Chamber of Economy
of Serbia
Olivera Stankovic
– Chamber of Economy of Serbia
Ivana Zeljkovic - Chamber
of Economy of Belgrade
Zorica Gluhovic - Chamber of Economy
of Belgrade
Djordje Dukic, president of
JISA – UNION OF ICT SOCIETIES of Serbia &
Montenegro
Marijan Frkovic – Chamber of
Economy of Croatia
Mladen Glasenhardt, president
HIZ – Croatian Informatics society
Dzevad Sabic – Chambers of
Economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Branko Vujacic, BAIT – society
for informatics technologies of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mojca Osojnik – Chamber of
Economy of Slovenia
Niko Schlamberger, president
SDI – Slovenian society of informatic experts
|
|
|
