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Teleworking as a Tool for
Information Society Technologies Programme Promotion to Baltic States
www.infobalt.lt/telebalt
EU IST Project
TELEBALT
Lithuania
Mr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, President of Association INFOBALT
Mr. Dziugas Juknys, Project Director, [email protected],
Tel. +370 698 01525
TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel
EU IST Project TELEBALT
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Teleworking as a Tool
 for Information Society Programme
 promotion to Baltic States
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www.infobalt.lt/telebalt
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EU IST Project TELEBALT
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Promotion of IST program in Baltic States.
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Present telework, telemedicine and virtual labor
communities in the Baltic States.
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Support and present 10-month projects’ proposals for
the IST program.
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Conduct the ITT research in the Lithuania.
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EU IST Project TELEBALT
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Create the Information Distribution Center in the
Lithuania (IDC)
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Present the IST goals, possibilities and results to the
audiences of the Republic of the Lithuania.
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Ensure the means of distance learning and promote IST
program.
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Present the results of realizing the IST project to the
telematic community of the Lithuania in accordance with
the tendencies of European telematics expansion.
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Problems of Lithuania and telework
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Unemployment – economy - living standard
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Regional development
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Digital divide
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Rural development
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Export of specialists and workers
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Special groups of workers:
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Disabled
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Students – additional work and practice
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Pensioners
Employment problems in Visaginas district (near Ignalina Nuclear
Power Plant)
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Telework governing structures of Lithuania
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Information Society Development Committee of the
Seimas and Information Society Development
Committee under the Government
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Social Affairs and Labour Committee of the Seimas and
Ministry of Social Security and Labour
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Lithuanian Labour Market Training Authority
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14 LABOUR MARKET TRAINING CENTRES
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National Strategy for Information Society
Development of Lithuania
9.2. Education of the society:
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opportunities for all;
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new organisational structure of the society encouraging
people to continuously seek new knowledge;
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knowledge and competence centres;
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mechanism for recognition of distance education
(formalisation);
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networks for creation, storage and dissemination of virtual
knowledge.
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National Strategy for Information Society
Development of Lithuania
9.4. Digital divide:
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systems of re-training;
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distance consultation and social assistance centres
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INFOBALT Association
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The INFOBALT activities in the ICT frameworks of the
European Union serve as a catalyst for the growth of
the information society in Lithuania.
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Established in 1994.
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154 members of Association INFOBALT include:
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Lithuanian information technologies,
telecommunications and office equipment companies.
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Higher education and research institutions and other
education institutions.
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Public organizations and concultancy firms.
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Mission of the Association Infobalt
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Consolidate, within the framework of the Association,
Lithuania-based companies engaged in such fields as
the IT, telecommunications, office supplies, and
production of electronics to operate jointly.
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Seek to ensure favourable conditions for the
development of the IST industry with an aim of raising
its share in the national GDP to 20%.
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Mission of the Association Infobalt
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Partake and promote joint partnership initiatives
together with science, culture and business
communities as well as authorities.
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Boost the flow of foreign investments to the Lithuanian
IST sector.
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Enable the Lithuanian IST sector to fulfil its potential on
the global markets.
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Support education, science and programmes promoting
development of the information society.
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Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and
science technologies for the next 5 years
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Protection of e-accounting and m-accounting systems
by e-signature and bio-metric voice and finger-pint
technologies.
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Development of e-business applications in ERP, SCM
and CRM fields.
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Development of open source technologies creating
business applications.
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Electronic sensors for food, security and other industrial
sectors of Lithuania.
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Laser technologies related to ITT.
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Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and
science technologies for the next 5 years
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Scientific computer applications for biotechnology
sector – development of databases and hardware
instruments.
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Development of multimedia products (applications,
encyclopedia, multilingual programs, Internet sites,
CDs, DVD, etc.).
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Potential fields of Lithuanian ICT industry and
science technologies for the next 5 years
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Implementation services of traditional hardware
(programming).
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Programs (PKI, etc.) of e-signature for e-business, egovernment and e-education
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Development of such systems like Intellect-House,
social security, hospital, transport, etc.
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National Program of Public Internet Access Points (PIAP)
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The task of the program – 2002-2004 m. in sixty Lithuanian local
administration and 535 municipalities (464 of them are rural)
establish 595 centers giving Internet services for residents free of
charge.
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Intitial investments – 17,9 mln. Lt.
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Strategical goal – diminution of informative public digital isolation
between Lithuanian cities and regions, residents with different
level of income (digital divide).
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One of the goals – make a tipical basic set of services for residents
and representatives of small and average business.
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In 2002 has to be established 43 PIAP centers
2003 - 276 PIAP centers
2004 - 276 PIAP centers.
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Why does Lithuania need Science
and Technology White Paper?
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Prerequisites for R&D progress in Lithuania
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Lithuania manufactures high technology products and services
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Potential for applied research is in place
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Lithuanian industry uses fundamental technologies:
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Information technologies
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Biotechnologies
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Laser industry
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Nano technologies
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Sufficient industry and science concentration
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Integration into the EU technological area accelerates and
cheapens investments
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TELEBALT Workpackages for LT
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WP2 - the IDC in Vilnius.
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WP2 - the TELEBALT main Web-site.
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WP2 - the CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”.
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WP3 - the TELEBALT main conference.
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WP4 - PL@ZA Groupware for the EU - Baltic States
Team Work.
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TELEBALT Deliverables – INFOBALT
responsible
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Evaluation report of TELEBALT main conference in
Vilnius.
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Adaptation of PL@ZA groupware for EU member
countries - Baltic States teleworking.
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CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”.
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TELEBALT Deliverables – INFOBALT
responsible
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Evaluation report of TELEBALT main conference in
Vilnius.
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Adaptation of PL@ZA groupware for EU member
countries - Baltic States teleworking.
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CD - ROM “EU - Baltic States Team Work”.
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TELEBALT Conference
“Teleworking for Business, Education, Research and e-Commerce”
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Vilnius, Lithuania, 21-22 October 2002
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100 speakers from 25 countries
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300 participants from 6 countries
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173 on line participants
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13 workshops
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110 presentations
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24 presentations of IST projects
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10 video – conference connections
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The TELEBALT Conference was a major event of the FP5 IST
programme in the Baltic countries.
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Session on Algorithm
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TELEBALT Algorithmical Resource: Artificial Intelligence
Algorithms On-line
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The second discussion on the initiation of a creation of
the library of algorithmic artificial intelligence resources
took place in the TELEBALT conference on 22 October,
2002
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Session on Algorithm
As a result the following suggestions were made:
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To set up a WWW page in the INFOBALT web site for
disseminating information concerning TAR( Telebalt
algorithmic resources) and collecting feedback
suggestions from the Baltic countries and all interested
parties.
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To find out what kind of AI resources are available in
Baltic countries and countries participants of the
TELEBALT project. The findings are going to be
presented in the next TELEBALT event in Riga 2003.
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TELEBALT Stand
at the Annual International Information Society
Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002”
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23-26 October, 2002
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Vilnius, Litexpo Trade Fair Center
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200 participants from 20 countries
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60 000 visitors
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80 000 on line visitors of virtual trade fair
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INFOBALT Science and Technology Park “Partnership
of Business and Science”
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TELEBALT Stand
at the Annual International Information Society
Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002”
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TELEBALT Stand presented:
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some documents on Key Action “New Methods of Work
and Electronic Commerce”;
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information about TELEBALT Project and training
course;
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TELEBALT Stand
at the Annual International Information Society
Technology Exhibition “Infobalt 2002”
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new methods and tools of team work “TEAMwork - an
integrated solution to support distributed e-working
teams”, Collaborative Browsing toolkit (CoBrow),
European Knowledge Platform (EKP) and Basic
Support for Cooperative Work (BSCW), Virtual
Presence System (VPS), Teamware Pl@za.
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Telework presentations
List of carried on and planned presentations
1. BIT&T conference, Riga, April 2002
2. LT Computer Society, Education Section
3. Non-gov organization “Fractal Club”
4. LT Parliament Info Society Development Committee
5. LT Local authorities training workshop, Druskininkai
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Telework presentations
(planed and under discussion)
6. LT Parliament ‘Committee on Social Affairs and
Labour (under discussion)
7. LT Statistics Dept (under discussion)
8. LT Custom dept (under discussion)
9. Warsaw conference “Launch of 6FP in Poland”,
November 25, 2002 (planed)
10. LT Ministry of Environment (under discussion)
11. LT InfoSociety Development Committee (under
discussion)
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Information Demonstration Centre
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IDC
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goals
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functions
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possible tools (website, e-library, periodic meetings, EU
IST products demo worksops, Domain Knowledge
Centres)
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Telework Domain Knowledge Centre
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Telework Domain Knowledge Centre as Ontology based
application
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main features
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plan for future – develop as Ontology-based Web
application
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Ontology-based applications – part of 6FP
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Information sources DB – Enter & Edit Form
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Ontology-based Web applications
Proposals for Partnership
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Training and self-training information systems building
tool
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Personal, team and company e-Library
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Information collecting and semi-automatic generating of
surveys and reports
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Document annotation self-automated generation
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Research and Development information analysis
system
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Ontology-based Web applications
Proposals for Partnership
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Documents (e.g. legal acts) storehouse with ontologybased search
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Information transforming to Knowledge system
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Website structure ontology – support of website
enhancement and search
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Situation evaluation, problem identification, alternative
generation and decision making system
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Ontology-based Web applications
Proposals for Partnership
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Management of project group (clusters)
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Information and Knowledge Quality Checking system
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Integration of Business Intelligence products and
Domain ontology
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Ontology-based CRM application
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Ontology-based Web applications
Proposals for Partnership
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Partnership supporting intelligent system
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Contracts and project proposals support system
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Intelligent interactive consulting system
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Product and services catalogue development system
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Thank you
for nice attention
Mr. Vytautas Vitkauskas, President of Association INFOBALT
Mr. Dziugas Juknys, Project Director, [email protected],
Tel. +370 698 01525
TELEBALT 11 November, 2002, Brussel