ICT4ICT (ICT Knowledge for ICT Diffusion)
The knowledge base and support from CEENet member countries will be used in the analyses.
The positive experience will be adapted for implementation in the CEE countries that have been less successful. A pilot project in two of them will serve as a test-bed for assessing the results of the research.
The project objectives were to examine the experience of the CEE and adjacent countries that have been most successful in faster and wider spread of networking technologies and to focus upon creating and delivering e-modules that can help regional ICT development in two countries in the CEE region.
The project developed a model that identifies the dominant conditions and factors for extensive connectivity and ICT use in the countries with limited resources and depending primarily upon the knowledge of its people. Estonia has expressed inclination and enthusiasm towards experimenting with and adopting contemporary technologies. It appears that one of the decisive factors for converging to information society has been the IT-program for developing e-services combined with wide-spread for all the citizens.
The lessons learned from the experience in Estonia established the framework for developing three pilot projects. Their primary goal was to provide means of how to possibly overcome the debilitating ignorance that spans from an ordinary citizen to a high level decision maker, in understanding the width, the depth, the profoundness, and the power of the ICT.
The Pilot Projects
1. ICT and Official Statistics for Development
Distance learning in a form of "ICT enabled learning" was promoted through course with content relevant to the professionals within Armenian political bodies for governmental or regional development. The aim of this course was to show how publicly available information in the
form of official statistical data can be found, retrieved, analyzed and interpreted. The course was created jointly by Mid Sweden University and Yerevan Technical University and hosted on a WebCT server in Armenia.
Besides providing the officials with knowledge in Statistics, it is expected the course to elevate the critical mass of ICT aware people about e-learning and its merits.
2. Scientific Terminology
Terminology in different scientific fields has been collected at the Macedonian Academy of Sciences since the 1970s. Web searchable application on several disciplines in Macedonian and four other languages was developed by the Institute of Informatics at the Faculty for Natural Sciences in Skopje. It proves to be rather valuable to young scholars and raises the awareness of content creators of the ICT. The next step will be to upgrade the application to complete terminology dictionary.
3. Community Networking
The third pilot project aims to spread information about the enactment of community networks, the know-how of deploying wireless technology, and consequently connecting a small wireless network to the Internet. A module in three different languages (Macedonian, English and Albanian)
is published on the Web. Along with the first pilot the project established tele-centers, in libraries both in Armenia and Macedonia, to demonstrate the power of wireless networking.
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