Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Technologies

Teleworking as a Tool for Information Society Technologies Programme Promotion to Baltic States www. infobalt. lt/telebalt

EU IST Project TELEBALT Lithuania Mr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, President of Association INFOBALT Mr. Dziugas Juknys, Project Director, dziugas@infobalt. lt, Tel. +370 698 01525 TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

EU IST Project TELEBALT è Teleworking as a Tool è for Information Society Programme è promotion to Baltic States è www. infobalt. lt/telebalt TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

EU IST Project TELEBALT è Promotion of IST program in Baltic States. è Present telework, telemedicine and virtual labor communities in the Baltic States. è Support and present 10 -month projects’ proposals for the IST program. è Conduct the ITT research in the Lithuania. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

EU IST Project TELEBALT è Create the Information Distribution Center in the Lithuania (IDC) è Present the IST goals, possibilities and results to the audiences of the Republic of the Lithuania. è Ensure the means of distance learning and promote IST program. è Present the results of realizing the IST project to the telematic community of the Lithuania in accordance with the tendencies of European telematics expansion. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Problems of Lithuania and telework è Unemployment – economy - living standard è Regional development è Digital divide è Rural development è Export of specialists and workers è Special groups of workers: è è Disabled è Students – additional work and practice è Pensioners Employment problems in Visaginas district (near Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant) TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Telework governing structures of Lithuania è Information Society Development Committee of the Seimas and Information Society Development Committee under the Government è Social Affairs and Labour Committee of the Seimas and Ministry of Social Security and Labour è Lithuanian Labour Market Training Authority è 14 LABOUR MARKET TRAINING CENTRES TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

National Strategy for Information Society Development of Lithuania 9. 2. Education of the society: è opportunities for all; è new organisational structure of the society encouraging people to continuously seek new knowledge; è knowledge and competence centres; è mechanism for recognition of distance education (formalisation); è networks for creation, storage and dissemination of virtual knowledge. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

National Strategy for Information Society Development of Lithuania 9. 4. Digital divide: è systems of re-training; è distance consultation and social assistance centres TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

INFOBALT Association è The INFOBALT activities in the ICT frameworks of the European Union serve as a catalyst for the growth of the information society in Lithuania. è Established in 1994. è 154 members of Association INFOBALT include: è Lithuanian information technologies, telecommunications and office equipment companies. è Higher education and research institutions and other education institutions. è Public organizations and concultancy firms. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Mission of the Association Infobalt è 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. è 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%. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Mission of the Association Infobalt è Partake and promote joint partnership initiatives together with science, culture and business communities as well as authorities. è Boost the flow of foreign investments to the Lithuanian IST sector. è Enable the Lithuanian IST sector to fulfil its potential on the global markets. è Support education, science and programmes promoting development of the information society. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and science technologies for the next 5 years è Protection of e-accounting and m-accounting systems by e-signature and bio-metric voice and finger-pint technologies. è Development of e-business applications in ERP, SCM and CRM fields. è Development of open source technologies creating business applications. è Electronic sensors for food, security and other industrial sectors of Lithuania. è Laser technologies related to ITT. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and science technologies for the next 5 years è Scientific computer applications for biotechnology sector – development of databases and hardware instruments. è Development of multimedia products (applications, encyclopedia, multilingual programs, Internet sites, CDs, DVD, etc. ). TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and science technologies for the next 5 years è Implementation services of traditional hardware (programming). è Programs (PKI, etc. ) of e-signature for e-business, egovernment and e-education è Development of such systems like Intellect-House, social security, hospital, transport, etc. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

National Program of Public Internet Access Points (PIAP) è 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. è Intitial investments – 17, 9 mln. Lt. è Strategical goal – diminution of informative public digital isolation between Lithuanian cities and regions, residents with different level of income (digital divide). è One of the goals – make a tipical basic set of services for residents and representatives of small and average business. è In 2002 has to be established 43 PIAP centers 2003 - 276 PIAP centers 2004 - 276 PIAP centers. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Why does Lithuania need Science and Technology White Paper? è Prerequisites for R&D progress in Lithuania è Lithuania manufactures high technology products and services è Potential for applied research is in place è Lithuanian industry uses fundamental technologies: è Information technologies è Biotechnologies è Laser industry è Nano technologies è Sufficient industry and science concentration è Integration into the EU technological area accelerates and cheapens investments TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

TELEBALT Workpackages for LT è WP 2 - the IDC in Vilnius. è WP 2 - the TELEBALT main Web-site. è WP 2 - the CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”. è WP 3 - the TELEBALT main conference. è WP 4 - PL@ZA Groupware for the EU - Baltic States Team Work. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

TELEBALT Deliverables – INFOBALT responsible è Evaluation report of TELEBALT main conference in Vilnius. è Adaptation of PL@ZA groupware for EU member countries - Baltic States teleworking. è CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

TELEBALT Deliverables – INFOBALT responsible è Evaluation report of TELEBALT main conference in Vilnius. è Adaptation of PL@ZA groupware for EU member countries - Baltic States teleworking. è CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

TELEBALT Conference “Teleworking for Business, Education, Research and e-Commerce” è Vilnius, Lithuania, 21 -22 October 2002 è 100 speakers from 25 countries è 300 participants from 6 countries è 173 on line participants è 13 workshops è 110 presentations è 24 presentations of IST projects è 10 video – conference connections è The TELEBALT Conference was a major event of the FP 5 IST programme in the Baltic countries. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Session on Algorithm è TELEBALT Algorithmical Resource: Artificial Intelligence Algorithms On-line è 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 TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Session on Algorithm As a result the following suggestions were made: è 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. è 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. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

TELEBALT Stand at the Annual International Information Society Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002” è 23 -26 October, 2002 è Vilnius, Litexpo Trade Fair Center è 200 participants from 20 countries è 60 000 visitors è 80 000 on line visitors of virtual trade fair è INFOBALT Science and Technology Park “Partnership of Business and Science” TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

TELEBALT Stand at the Annual International Information Society Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002” è TELEBALT Stand presented: è some documents on Key Action “New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce”; è information about TELEBALT Project and training course; TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

TELEBALT Stand at the Annual International Information Society Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002” 1. new methods and tools of team work “TEAMwork an integrated solution to support distributed e-working teams”, Collaborative Browsing toolkit (Co. Brow), European Knowledge Platform (EKP) and Basic Support for Cooperative Work (BSCW), Virtual Presence System (VPS), Teamware Pl@za. TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Telework presentations List of carried on and planned presentations 1. BIT&T conference, Riga, April 2002 2. LT Computer Society, Education Section 3. Non-gov organization “Fractal Club” 4. LT Parliament Info Society Development Committee 5. LT Local authorities training workshop, Druskininkai TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Telework presentations (planed and under discussion) 6. LT Parliament ‘Committee on Social Affairs and Labour (under discussion) 7. LT Statistics Dept (under discussion) 8. LT Custom dept (under discussion) 9. Warsaw conference “Launch of 6 FP in Poland”, November 25, 2002 (planed) 10. LT Ministry of Environment (under discussion) 11. LT Info. Society Development Committee (under discussion) TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Information Demonstration Centre è IDC è goals è functions è possible tools (website, e-library, periodic meetings, EU IST products demo worksops, Domain Knowledge Centres) TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Telework Domain Knowledge Centre è Telework Domain Knowledge Centre as Ontology based application è main features è plan for future – develop as Ontology-based Web application è Ontology-based applications – part of 6 FP TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Information sources DB – Enter & Edit Form TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Ontology-based Web applications Proposals for Partnership 1. Training and self-training information systems building tool 2. Personal, team and company e-Library 3. Information collecting and semi-automatic generating of surveys and reports 4. Document annotation self-automated generation 5. Research and Development information analysis system TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Ontology-based Web applications Proposals for Partnership 1. Documents (e. g. legal acts) storehouse with ontology -based search 2. Information transforming to Knowledge system 3. Website structure ontology – support of website enhancement and search 4. Situation evaluation, problem identification, alternative generation and decision making system TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Ontology-based Web applications Proposals for Partnership è Management of project group (clusters) è Information and Knowledge Quality Checking system è Integration of Business Intelligence products and Domain ontology è Ontology-based CRM application TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Ontology-based Web applications Proposals for Partnership è Partnership supporting intelligent system è Contracts and project proposals support system è Intelligent interactive consulting system è Product and services catalogue development system TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel

Thank you for nice attention Mr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, President of Association INFOBALT Mr. Dziugas Juknys, Project Director, dziugas@infobalt. lt, Tel. +370 698 01525 TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel