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SUMMARY:The Regional Conference “THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE INFORMATION SOC
 IETY in the Eastern Europe and South Caucasus countries: Priorities and Ch
 allenges”
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20110616T060000Z
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UID:indico-event-209@indico.ipb.ac.rs
DESCRIPTION:“THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY in the Eastern 
 Europe and South Caucasus countries: Priorities and Challenges”\nOrganiz
 ed by GRENA and the EU funded project EXTEND \n\nPress Release\n\nThe even
 t is co-organised by GRENA and the EU-funded FP7 EXTEND project (www.EXTEN
 D-ict.eu). The conference aims to formulate a strategy and actions for the
  development of ICT Research & Development in the region and for the regio
 n’s integration in the wider European effort to achieve the Information 
 Society. \n\nIn the conference more than 100 IT researchers and stakeholde
 rs from many countries of the Region and the European Union are expected t
 o participate and contribute with their presentations. \n\nFrom the Georgi
 an side about 50 Researchers\, representatives of Georgian National Scienc
 e Foundation\, EU Delegation in Georgia\, representatives of Ministries\, 
 universities\, private and nongovernmental organizations\, journalists and
  media representatives will take part.\n \nThe conference will be opened b
 y the host organization Georgian Research and Educational Networking Assoc
 iation\, the State Ministry for Euro-Atlantic Integration of Georgia\, the
  Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation and the Georgian Technical Un
 iversity.\n\nThe agenda includes two panel sessions where the main ICT cha
 llenges of the Region and the strategy to be followed in order to improve 
 the participation to the European Programmes of Research and Technological
  development will be addressed.  It also includes a brokerage event which 
 will enable the presentation of success stories\, discussion of new ideas\
 , agreement between partners on the creation of new consortiums\, etc.\n\n
 The conference will be held in OLD Tbilisi Hotel on June 16-17. \n\nInform
 ation about the organization of the conference was announced on these web 
 sites:\nhttp://www.extend-ict.eu/node/594\;  \nhttp://www.eeca-ict.eu/eeca
 /index.php/en/eventlist/details/37 \nand the site of the  EU Delegation in
  Georgia: \nhttp://eeas.europa.eu/delegations/georgia/press_corner/all_new
 s/index_en.htm \n\nThe conference main presentations and conclusions will 
 be posted on the same sites \n\nhttp://www.extend-ict.eu/closing-Conferenc
 e\n\nhttps://events.saifa.rs/event/209/
LOCATION:Hotel Old Metekhi
URL:https://events.saifa.rs/event/209/
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