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SLOVAKIA. e-BUSINESS STATUS REPORT Prepared by: Dusan Soltes Faculty of Management Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia. INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION.
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SLOVAKIA e-BUSINESS STATUS REPORT Prepared by: Dusan Soltes Faculty of Management Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
INTRODUCTORY INFORMATION THIS PRESENTATION HAS BEEN SUMMARIZING SOME BASIC RESULTS AS ACHIEVED: - THE SIBIS PROJECT REGARDING SLOVAKIA AND AS PRESENTED IN: - THE COUNTRY TOPIC REPORT #9 WP5, BUT ALSO - NAS COUNTRY CONTEXT REPORT WP2 • SPECIAL SO SR SURVEY 2002 • OTHER SOURCES FROM INTERNET
BASIC INFORMATION ON SLOVAKIA Area: 48 845 sq. km Population: 5.4 mil. Economy in 2002/3: GDP growth: 4.4% Inflation: 4.3% (9.5% - 2003) Unemployment: 18% Average month wage: 310 Euro (Gross) Almost 2/3 earning below that average Bellow poverty line: 11-12% or 31%? Member: OECD, EU, NATO
Some “Information Society Ratings” of SR • Information society index 2000: 34th of 55 countries (IDC) - Inf. And Communic. Index 2001: 50th of 75 countries (WEF) - Global IT IQ ranking 2001: 38th of 100 countries (Brain Bench) • E-readiness ranking 2001: 53d of 75 countries (Harvard U.) Not corresponding to OECD-30, EU-25 member
Strategic Documents on Information Society • Strategy of the Development of IS in the New Millenium in SR (1999) • Policy of Informatization of Society in SR (2001) • e-Europe+ Action Plan for SR (2001) - etc. … but clear national strategy and coordination (OG, MPT, ME?) still missing
Basic Legislative Acts on Information Society • No.52/98 On Protection of Personal Data in Information Systems • No. 211/02 On Free Access to Information • No. 215/02 on Electronic Signature • No. 241/02 on Protection of Confidential Data • No. 540/01 on State Statistics - No. 428/02 an Innovation of No.52/98
Some Key IS Related Projects/Internet Portals • GOVNET (http://www.governmet.sk) • INFOVEK (http://www.infovek.sk) • SANET (http://www.sanet.sk) • ZOZNAM (http://www.zoznam.sk) • OBCAN (http://www.obcan.sk) • EUINTEGRACIA (http://www.euintegracia.sk) • SHOPPINGS (http://www.shopping.sk) • FINANCE (http://finance.sk)
What is missing for e-business? • - A comprehensive legislation on e-business and general environment • - e-business stimuli (tax and customs incentives) – from 2004 even worse! • - technological and organizational basis e.g. for e-signature the PKI – Public Key Infrastructure missing • - regular statistical survey • - public trust • - standard of living (real wages still lower than in 1989!?)
IT Basis & Use 31.12. 2002 (SO SR Survey) ENTERPRISES (20+ EMPL.): 5 833 - PC 1.1 – 31.12. 176 572 - 195 370 - PC with e-mail 114 508 - PC with Internet 88 641 - EMPLOYEES WITH PC 210 232 - with e-mail 122 464 - with Internet 91 972 - WWW PAGE 2 963 - E-PURCHASE 13% (?) - E-SALE 15% (?)
IT Basis & Use 31.12. 2002 (cont.) • Finance & Insurance co. : 522 - PCs 1.1. – 31.12. 35 289-39 404 - PCs with e-mail 28 855 - PCs with Internet 27 957 - Employees with PCs 29 242 - with e-mail 27 759 - with Internet 13 989 - www page 134 out of 522
E-BANKING IN THE SR 13 OF 19 MAJOR BANKS OFFERING: • HOME BANKING 12 • INTERNET BANKING 10 • GSM BANKING 8 • SMS BANKING 3 • TELE BANKING 4 • EMAIL BANKING 6 • PHONE BANKING 6 NO BANK OFFERING ALL THE ABOVE GENERAL BANKING STANDARDS LOW
Interest of Internet Users in e-Commerce(Res’ch Inst. Commun.)
E-ECONOMY & COMMERCE Regular users over Internet: EU15 – 11 USA - 28 UK - 23 EL - 2 NAS10- 2 SK - 3
ICT INFRASTRUCTURE Internet Usage at Home and at Work: EU15 - 16 USA - 29 DK - 34 EL,P - 5 NAS10- 4 SK - 3
MAIN CONCLUSIONS REGARDING SLOVAKIA • MOSTLY ON THE LEVEL OF NAS10 AVERAGE OR ABOVE THAT • COMPARABLE OR BETTER THAN LAST EU MEMBERS • VERY EXPENSIVE INTERNET • LACK OF ITC TEACHERS • LOW LEVEL OF ENGLISH USAGE • SLOW PROGRESS IN PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF LEGISLATION • BETTER SOC.-ECON. ENVIRONMENT & NATIONAL STRATEGY NEEDED
FINAL REMARKS (1) The SIBIS Project has fully confirmed its relevance for candidate countries as it enabled: • to prepare the first comprehensive analysis of the current status in IS • to compare SR with the EU and NAS • to identify future place of SR in EU-25 • exact statistical basis for evaluation and further proceeding - identify future trends in IS and ITC
FINAL REMARKS (2) - SIBIS NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED: - FOR ALL EU-25 & CC-3+ EQUAL. - FOR ALL SECTORS EQUALLY - REGULAR UPDATING - ALL e-EUROPE PROJECTS NEED HARMONIZATION AS EU-25 ONLY - SERVE FOR BENCHMARKING & MONITORING OF LISABON STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION AS e-EUROPE-2010 FOR EU-25 ONLY