Transcript CCIS Europa, hrvatska, Split Communication and Information Society, Croatia Nikola Rožić

Communication and Information Society, Croatia
CCIS
Nikola Rožić
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, >10 000 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
FIXED
MOBILE
• Croatian Telekom (Regional Centers: Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Osijek)
• more operators expected in 2004
• HTmobile
• VIPnet
• more operators expected in 2004
• KabelNET
• DCM
• ADRIATIC
CABLE
ISP
• 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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Performance at the Castle of a Prince in Dubrovnik
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Presentation in the hall ADRIATIC
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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)
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