| What leaders say |
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| AKIS TSOCHATZOPOULOS (ministry of development) |
| E-Europe is a strategic plan that will be used essentially to improve the competitiveness of European society and its economy. |
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| ODYSSEAS KYRIAKOPOULOS (Federation of Greek Industries) |
| The e-business forum is certainly working in that direction. It is an initiative that should continue, because we must encourage Greek business to invest in new information and communications technologies and create the technical infrastructures our country needs to ensure that these technologies are used efficiently by Greek businesses. |
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| STEPHANOS KARAPETSIS Federation of Hellenic Information Technology & Communications Enterprises (SEPE) |
| It has become essential, given the development of information and communications technology, that there should be close cooperation between the private sector, the state and the academic and research institutions. So, for the first time perhaps in Greece, those three bodies have the opportunity to sit down and talk about how we can speed up the process of computerising business in Greece. |
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| GIORGOS PAPAKONSTANTINOU (ministry of economics and finance) |
| What is more difficult to measure, but which is of greatest importance, is that all those who take part leave taking something with them, the creation of a community of people who realise that business in Greece today is moving on to another level. |
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| CHRISTOS NIKOLAOU (University of Crete) |
| The University of Crete embraced the programme right from the start and at this moment our aim is that at least 3000 businesses (in Crete) will be on the Internet by the end of the programme, and that many of them will not just be on the Internet but will do business transactions via the Internet. |
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| PETROS KAVASSALIS (university of crete) |
| At the University of Crete we undertook to plan and create the e-business forum web Site, a means of helping to complete the tasks of each work group. Apart from that, we added other things to the Site, of a more general nature, news, and now what is happening in this field, either in Greece or abroad, appears on the Site. |
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| THEODOROS KAROUNOS (GRNET) |
| The e-business forum has motivated a very large number of businesses, which have, directly or indirectly, expressed an interest; about 400 businesses and very many executives, university lecturers and researchers, and public management executives. In effect, all the e-business forum groups have worked together with considerable unanimity, having met at regular intervals at the GRNET premises. |
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| ANGELIKI POULYMENAKOU (University of Business and Economics) |
| The fact that we are in contact with the business world and present in discussions with the business world helps us to bring it closer to the University. The University has a standard policy, that is, that future executives should not be taught by lecturers alone but should receive regular talks from those people working in the market place |
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| PANTELIS TZORTZAKIS (FORTHnet S.A.) |
| An institution of this sort is of very great importance, because we are managing to speed up the way in which the state legislates, and through legislation businesses are helped to do their job better and spread the idea of the Internet and the Information Society in the Greek market place. |
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| CHRISTINA AGRIANTONI (INSTITUTE OF NEOHELLENIC RESEARCH) |
| I think that the people too who are involved with these technologies need to gain awareness, regarding this technology, of historical depth. I think they need it, but it is also very useful for us too, for social scientists, because it is a living testimony that also helps us to review the past, and I think that this exchange (of opinions) is productive on both sides. |
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| YIANNIS YIANNARAKIS (Portal in.gr) |
| One of the most important problems, one of the most significant absences, is the shortage of Greek digital content. We are trying to overcome this shortage in the Work group dealing with Greek digital content, in the e-business forum of the Ministry of Development, attempting to create the pre-requisites to speed up the production of Greek digital content, as well as speed up the digitalisation of Greek content, which exists in other forms. |
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