European Survey of Information Society

Vlastimil Veselý

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From ESIS to ESIS II

• In EU countries since February 1997

• since spring/summer 1999 ESIS II started in 25 countries of CEE and Mediterrean area

• 13 main contractors, 23 local partners

• Decentralized data collecting and analysis

• Quarterly and annual reports

• Permanent data collecting about activities supporting information society (questioannaire based)

www.ispo.cec.be/esis

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ESIS II Czech Republic

• Ustav informatiky VUT FAST & Center for E-commerce (CEO)

• Interdisciplinary team mapping the areas of business and media state and public administration

• Results in Czech and English

www.park.cz/esis

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Analytical reports

• Regulation development• Public network facilities• Initiatives promoting information society• Key persons and organisations• WWW services indicators • Basic indicators• Statistical analysis of collected projects

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Structured data inventory

• Projects supporting information society Innovative usage of ICT Interactivity Remote access Social dimension

• Initiatives promoting the idea of information society conferences, seminars, survey, research studies,

publications, calls for projects, public announcements, expertise etc.

• Key persons and organisations, “who is who”

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Estonia

Slovenia

Lithuania

Latvia

Poland

Romania

15

16

40

8

10

42

4

16

48

16

8

44

BulgariaBosna and Herczegovina

MacedoniaAlbania

CR

Hungary

290 projects monitored in CEE and 139 in Mediterrean

Projects in CEE countries

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Application areas

Multiple Entries permittedCentral and Eastern European Countries

6%

8%

8%

10%

10%

22%

30%

31%

43%

46%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Environment

Transport activities

Primary sector

Healthcare

Retail trade

Manufacturing

Culture, entertainment, tourism

Other commercial services

Public adm. services, social integration

Education and Training

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Service / application types

Multiple Entries permitted

6%

9%

17%

19%

22%

22%

32%

32%

47%

61%

Telemedicine

Teledemocracy

E-commerce

Teleworking

Teletraining

Teleadministration

Facilitated internet access

Teleeducation

Information/hnowledge sharing

Access to information ressources

Central and Eastern European Countries

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Connecting people, ideas & experience

• ESIS conference (November 2000, Prague), First Tuesday CZ events

• VIP Direct free monthly E-newsletter focused on Internet strategies,

E-commerce and virtual education addressing about 6,000 subscribers www.park.cz/vipd

• VIP Forum moderated mailing list for E-commerce professionals (Web based

archive, digest) permanent exchange of opinions and experience exchange www.park.cz/vipforum

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Regulation and liberalization

• State information policy (SIP) May 1999, Action plan in May 2000

• Telecommunication policy, SIP in Education

• Acts on personal data protection (Jun 2000) telecommunication (Jul 2000)

end of monopoly 1.1.2001 de iure carrier selection & number portability postponed !

electronic signatures (Oct 2000)

• E-commerce supportive measures Green book on e-commerce (Jun 2001) CA accreditation infrastructure to come

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ESIS Knowledge Base

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Informations sources and contacts

ISPO...

www.ispo.cec.be/esiswww.ispo.cec.be/esis

Virtual Info Park (VIP)...

www.park.cz/esiswww.park.cz/esis

E-mail...

esisesis@fce.vutbr.cz@fce.vutbr.cz

Questions?

vesely.v@fce.vutbr.czTel. +420 5 4114 7259, 7250

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