MONTENEGRO ON THE WAY TO INFORMATION SOCIETY… Milica Dakovic Institute for Strategic Studies and Prognoses ISSP Montenegro Skopje, Macedonia, May 16-17, 2007
INFORMATION SOCIETY AS A NEW TREND EU society focused on this concept… A new concept based on: Openness Free exchange of information Knowledge Individualism Democracy
INFORMATION SOCIETY IN MONTENEGRO How we started? 2001 as a ‘starting point’… Regulatory and institutional changes: Changes in regulation - adoption of the new Law on telecommunications (2001) New regulator – the Agency for telecommunications (2001) Privatization of the Telekom Crna Gora (2005) Its majority owner is Magyar Telekom (76.53%) From September 26, 2006 became part of the T family of Deutsche Telekom.
INFORMATION SOCIETY IN MONTENEGRO Overview of the basic ICT indicators Graph 1. Fixed telephony penetration (%)
INFORMATION SOCIETY IN MONTENEGRO Overview of the basic ICT indicators Graph 2. Mobile telephony penetration (%)
INFORMATION SOCIETY IN MONTENEGRO Overview of the basic ICT indicators Graph 3. Internet penetration (%)
INFORMATION SOCIETY IN MONTENEGRO Overview of the basic ICT indicators Graph 4. PC Market in 2006, 2007 (number of sold PCs)
INFORMATION SOCIETY IN MONTENEGRO ICT usage among households and companies PC in households (38% households in Montenegro has PC) Younger population-as common users Older population not so interested for information literacy Business dependence on IT High rate of employees that use PC and the Internet Interested for new services (E-government)
STARTED WITH ONE, BUT TODAY… … we have three mobile phone operators (3G) … we have new five Internet providers … we still have one operator for fixed telephony … we have new licensed cable TV operators
INFORMATION SOCIETY IN MONTENEGRO How to improve it? Further investment in infrastructure E-government Liberalization of telecommunication market Media support Knowledge Regulaton - new Laws
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