Communication and Information Society, Croatia

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Communication and Information Society, Croatia
CCIS
Nikola Rožic
University of Split, Croatia
Europa, hrvatska, Split
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Contents

• CCIS at a glance

• CCIS current activities and short term plan

• ICT Socities in Croatia

• Universities and Institutes

• ICT industry operators

• Meetings on ICT sponsored by the IEEE Chapter

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CCIS at a glance

• non-governmental and non-profit society

• a community comprised of professionals and
  researchers
• with a common interest in advancing all
  communication and
• information technologies

• CISoc particularly encourages the development of
  new
• technologies, systems and applications that
  promote the
• soft approaches and solutions

• CISoc provides a framework for collaboration
  between
• academy and industry

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in addition we

• contribute to education and knowledge,
  improvement of
• existing academic and professional programs

• assure transfer of technology, promote and
  translate
• recommendations and standards in ICT

• publish professional, scientific and text books,
  conference
• proceedings, promotional materials and
  documents in order
• to diseminate achievements in ICT

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in addition we (cont.)

• organize events, conferences and symposiums,
  forums
• and summits, workshops and seminars,
  tutorials, round
• tables and exhibitions

• host events in collaboration with other national
  and/or
• international societies

• collaborate with similar national and/or
  international
• societies in all activities of mutual interest

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CCIS curriculum

• founded in 2002

• members include researchers and professionals
  from
• universities, ICT industry and operators from
  the four main
• national centers(Split, Zagreb, Rijeka and
  Osijek)

• an Agreement between CCIS and COMSOC as
• Sister Societies was signed in December 2002 in
  Taipei

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CCIS publishing activities (cont.)
2) Publishing of books, proceedings, promotional
materials

• New Communication Technologies (book, 10
  chapters)

• Intelligent Transport Systems (book, 12 chapters)

• Quantum Mind Networks (book, 7 chapters)

• Human Exposure to Elecromagnetic Fields (book, 6
  chapts.)

• Dictionary of Communications Technology (eng.-
  cro.)
• (book, 10 000 words with 180 pictures)

• Conference proceedings (14 volumes, gt10 000
  pages)

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CCIS activities (cont.)
3) Organizing of conferences, workshops,
presentations

• Conference on Software, Telecommunications and
• Computer Networks SoftCOM

• a number of workshops, seminars and tutorials

• a number of presentations and round tables

• participation in organizing events of other
  societies

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CCIS short term plans

• increase the number of active members

• establish regional sections and working groups
  for areas

• soft communication systems

• soft information systems

• software

• services, applications and QoS

• multimedia and virtual reality

• electromagnetic ecology

• establish a journal on software and soft
  communication/
• information systems in collaboration with
  ComSoc

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Other ICT Societies in Croatia

• KOREMA (Commun., Computing, Electronics, Measur.
  and Control)

• MIPRO (

• ELMAR (

• Croatian Section IEEE

• Croatian Chapter IEEE

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Universities and Institutes in ICT

• Four universities (Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek)

• Several Polytechnics

• ????? institutes (

• Technology centers parks (Zagreb, Split,
  Rijeka, Osijek)

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ICT industry

• Ericsson Nikola Tesla (Zagreb, Split)

• Siemens (Zagreb, Split)

• many small and medium size companies

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ICT operators providers
F I X E D

• Croatian Telekom (Regional Centers Zagreb,
  Split, Rijeka, Osijek)

• more operators expected in 2004

M O B I L E

• HTmobile

• VIPnet

• more operators expected in 2004

• KabelNET

C A B L E

• DCM

• ADRIATIC

I S P

• HInet

• ISKON

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SoftCOM International Conference

• promote soft communication/computing concepts
  and
• approaches in contemporary ICT

• this year SoftCOM has celebrated 10th anniversary

• it is co-sponsored by ComSoc for five last years

• it is sponsored by Ministry of Science and
  Technology (Croatia)

• it is co-organized in collaboration with
  University of Split
• and Technology Center Split under the
  patronage of
• Croatian Telekom and Ericsson NT

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SoftCOM 2003

• aboarded the cruising ship Ancona on the route
• Split-Venice-Ancona-Dubrovnik (Oct. 7-10)

• about 300 participants

• over 230 presentations

• 2 Symposiums, 5 special sessions, 12 general
  sessions,
• 4 tutorials, one workshop, bussines forum and
• presentations of ICT applications

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Advanced Communications, Great Sea ...
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SoftCOM 2002 Performance at the Castle of a
Prince in Dubrovnik
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SoftCOM 2002 Presentation in the hall ADRIATIC
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SoftCOM 2002 Visiting the Piazza San Marco in
Venice
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SoftCOM 2004
aboard the cruising ship on the
route Split-Venice-Ancona-Dubrovnik (Oct. 8-11,
2004)
WELCOME !
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