round table 3: investment in the telecommunication, innovation and technology in the region...

Round Table 3: Investment in the Telecommunication, Innovation and Technology in the Region

Opportunities in Technology Sector

4th VIENNA ECONOMIC FORUMInvestment in Development in the Countries from the Adriatic to the Black Sea – Problems and Solution

Proposals

Vienna, Austria, November 5th

Vujica Lazovic, PhDDeputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy

Government of Montenegro

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Small country – small projects

BIG EFFECTS

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Innovation management

&

Digital revolution

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Information technology application is not in direct and proportional

correlation with living standard !?

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Technological development in Montenegro

• Mobile telephone users

163%

• Internet users

> 29%

• Hoseholds having the computer

> 40%

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

What have we done?

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Liberalized telecommunication

market

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

No of mobile telephone operators3

No of fixed telephone operators2

No of Internet Service Providers5

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Digital Opportunity Index

61. place (World Rank)

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Global Competitiveness Index

82. place (World Rank)

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Existance of a political will for

technological development

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

What do we have to do?

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

From Digital gap

To Digital Opportunity

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Thank you for the attention!