Slovenia

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Slovenia
Population (2001) 1.994.000 GDP per capita PPS
(2002) 20.273 Agriculture
2.7 Industry, construction 31.3 Services
54.9 ICT manufacturing Export (451
m) 4.6 Import (786 m) 7.6 Employment
5 Value added 33.600

• Jaro BERCE
• Government office for EU Affairs
• Bucharest, Oct. 2004

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SWOT of IS Policy
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Main ICT research themes

• e-business
• e-banking
• e-commerce
• e-marketing
• e-learning
• e-school
• e-government
• e-health
• e-inclusion

• Telecommunications
• Broadband
• Access
• Broad casting
• Telework
• Intellectual property rights
• Security Privacy

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The key research actors

• Universities with faculties
• Ljubljana (electrical, informatics, partly social
  science economy)
• Maribor (electrical, informatics
  telecommunication)
• RD institutions (IJS etc.)
• Private sector
• Manufacturing (mostly in telecommunications)
• ICT service and trade companies (multinational,
  local)
• ICT Network (composed with both Univ., RD
  institutions, private sector)
• Public sector
• Ministry for Information Society
• Agency for Telecommunications and Post
• Government Centre of Informatics

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Opportunities in ICT research

• Lowering digital divide (education)
• Policy planning and action plan(s) realization
• Networking of all interested parties (Centre of
  Excellence)
• Future projects
• NGN
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