round table 3: investment in the telecommunication, innovation and technology in the region...

Round Table 3: Investment in the Telecommunication, Innovation and Technology in the Region

Opportunities in Technology Sector

4th VIENNA ECONOMIC FORUMInvestment in Development in the Countries from the Adriatic to the Black Sea – Problems and Solution

Proposals

Vienna, Austria, November 5th

Vujica Lazovic, PhDDeputy Prime Minister for Economic Policy

Government of Montenegro

Vujica Lazović, PhD, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic policy, Government of Montenegro

Opportunities in Technology Sector, 4th Vienna Economic Forum, Vienna, Austria, 5.11.2007.

Small country – small projects

BIG EFFECTS



Innovation management

&

Digital revolution



Information technology application is not in direct and proportional

correlation with living standard !?



Technological development in Montenegro

• Mobile telephone users

163%

• Internet users

> 29%

• Hoseholds having the computer

> 40%



What have we done?



Liberalized telecommunication

market



No of mobile telephone operators3

No of fixed telephone operators2

No of Internet Service Providers5



Digital Opportunity Index

61. place (World Rank)



Global Competitiveness Index

82. place (World Rank)



Existance of a political will for

technological development



What do we have to do?



From Digital gap

To Digital Opportunity



Thank you for the attention!

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