SERBIAN ICT CLUSTERS –
NETWORK
12. JULY 2012 IN BELGRADE, SIGNING
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
• „The
memorandum was signed between the three
clusters in order to achieve mutual cooperation in
the areas of its activities that are in the common
interest and in the interest of strengthening the
competitiveness of members, particularly in
activities such as lobbying, education and training
of the staff of the cluster members, branding and
positioning in the domestic ICT industry and
international markets.“
SERBIAN ICT CLUSTERS
2013
2012
2011
- Gaining trust
- Building of mechanism for
cooperation
- Joint activities
- Formal signing of MoU
-lobbying
-education and training
of the staff of the
cluster members
-branding and
positioning in the
domestic ICT industry
-branding and
positioning in the
International markets.
-Initial contacts
Chronology
2014- ICT Cluster of central Serbia join the group
JOINT ACTIVITIES
• ICT Cluster academy
• Lobbying (ministries)-clusters position
• Cross sectorial cooperation
• JOINT FOR ALL CLUSTERS
• Triple helix model- universities, academy, research
centers, incubators, SMEs
INTRODUCING ICT NET
• Merger of Serbian
Software Cluster and
embedded.rs
• Project experienceprograms, donors,
grants
• Idvorsky laboratories20% owners
• Run SEE IT Secretariat in
2015- ORF Project
INTODUCING VOICT
• Project office
concept
• SCRUM trainings
• Cluster academy
• FRACTALS Project
INTRODUCING NICAT
• Cluster academy
• Building ecosystemaccelerators
• Projects experience
INTRODUCING ICT CS
• Young clusterestablished in 2013
• Knowledge transfer,
capacity building
• Export oriented
companies
Cross sectorial cooperation6 best clusters of Serbia
The MoU was signed …
interest of strengthening the
competitiveness of
members, particularly in
activities such as lobbying,
participation on EU
programs, branding and
positioning in the domestic
industry and international
markets.“
CROSS SECTORIAL COOPERATIONFRACTALS
• ICT SMEs-FIWARE applications-agricultural sector
• FRACTALS will offer between 50,000 and 150,000 €,
reaching a total amount of 5.5 m. EUROS, to 50-60
SMEs and web-entrepreneurs to develop
applications based on FIWARE technologies for the
Agricultural Sector.
• 18.-19. December-Info day in Istanbul
• http://fractals-fp7.com/
KEY CHALLENGES
• Lack of IT experts
• Analysis of international
markets-offers
• Visibility
• Access to international
markets
• Capacity mapping
• Finance for innovating
projects
• Government support
(ASKA)
• Visibility
• Building the ecosystem
• Capacity building
• E competence
framework (discussion)
• Developing new
service for members
SERBIAN ICT CLUSTERS
Ready for cooperation
Open for partnership
Thank you
www.ict-net.com, www.ni-cat.org
www.vojvodinaictcluster.org, www.ict-cs.org
Montenegro: IT Association Profile
Activities
Objectives
 Strategic objective is to increase the visibility of the
Montenegrin IT sector and to put Montenegro on the
global IT map;
 Influencing the triple helix (business, academia,
government);
 Main Focus : raising awareness about the important role
of IT in Montenegro's society and economy.
 Regional cooperation as part of SEE IT initiative
 Strong cooperation with Ministry for Information Society
and
 Telecommunications in implementing new IT standards
 Representing Montenegrin IT on international level
 Cooperating with education and government institutions
in
 developing and implementing new IT solutions
 Promoting e-government
 Strategic partnerships and exchange of expertise and best
IT
 practices with international business partners
 Application for joint project with ICT Net- Danube iniciative
Organization & Members
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Established in 2013
6 member companies
International and regional cooperation frameworks
Partnership with UDG (University Donja Gorica)
15
COMING EVENT
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - IT 2015
• The Jubilee XX Scientific-Professional Information
Technology Conference 2015
• February 23rd until 28th, 2015. in Žabljak.
• Conference shall organize celebration of the
Jubilee with a special program, in addition to
traditional lectures, debates, panel discussions and
presentations of trends in the field of information
and communication technologies in Montenegro
and Worldwide
• http://www.it.ac.me/eng/