28.03.2014

STIKK participated in AEP workshop

STIKK participated on the following AEP seminar held on 27th of March, 2014, in Tirana, Albania. Academic Exchange for Progress (AEP) facilitates academic exchange and capacity building within the host country, and in the cooperation between partner institutions in Norway, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. The main objectives of this program is to increase capacities of the ICT related faculties in the above-mentioned countries, exchange of experience and best practice, and increase regional and international cooperation. In this seminar, STIKK’s executive director Ms. Vjollca Çavolli is moderating the panel session on how to bridge the skills gap, and improve cooperation between companies and universities? Experiences, opportunities and challenges related to cooperation between companies and universities. Participating in this session are Adrian Besimi from SEEU Macedonia, Edmond Hajrizi from UBT Kosovo, Dritan Mezini from AITA Albania, companies from Norway and the Balkans and Darko Asov from Crimson Macedonia.After this session, some students are going to present their experiences from engaging with the AEP program.”

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26.03.2014

STIKK participates in “Week of Woman”

The second day of Women’s Week was held in the premises of ICK, which focused on the topic “Women and Technology”. More than a 100 women from all over Kosovo participated in this event, where there were representatives of political parties, civil societies, businesses, media, academia, and other guests.

During this day, there was a discussion session moderated by: Donika Kada Bujupi – member of Kosovo’s Assembly, while discussions were held by: Uranik Begu from ICK, Vlora Çitaku – Minister for European Integration, Vjollca Çavolli from STIKK, Milena Harito – Minister of Innovation and Public Administration (Albania), Mimoza Hajdarmataj – local coordinator of the women network “Equality in decision-making, Albania”, and Kristina Wilfore from NDI.

In her discussion, Ms. Vjollca Çavolli talked about the role of women in political participation enabled through technology, which touched topics such as: the absence of women in technology, advantages that technology provides for women, the creation of communities in social networks in order to push forward goals, the role of STIKK in promoting and enhancing the capacities of women in information technology etc.

After the discussion session, Valon Canhasi from STIKK gave a lecture on the ways of using social networks, after which, the women learned how to register and use the social network “Twitter”.

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25.03.2014

STIKK attended the next workshop of OGP

“On 21 to 23 March, STIKK attended the workshop organized by the Ministry of European Integration, held in Bogë, Peja. During this workshop, STIKK together with the civil society, had a supporter role for improving the National Action Plan 2014-2016, for Kosovo’s membership in the Open Government Partnership. OGP is an initiative which aims to secure concrete commitments by the government to promote transparency, empower citizens, fight corruption, and to utilize new technologies and innovation to strengthen the governance. Kosovo claims to become the 64th member of the OGP in the world.”

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24.03.2014

STIKK organizes training in JavaScript

STIKK together with “WomInnovation” organized a training dedicated for female students in JavaScript. The training was held at the facilities of ICK where 15 female students participated.

In this training, the students had the chance to learn about:

– HTML and CSS Fundamentals
– Introduction in JavaScript
– Variables
– Operators
– Arrays
– Conditions
– Loops
– Functions
– Numbers
– Strings
– Data
– OOP
– Objects
– DOM and Node
– Implementation of CRUD in PHP and MySQL

The lecturer for this training was Driton Haxhiu, a professional in Web programming languages. At the end of the training, the participants finished an exam.

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28.02.2014

ICT-KOSEU: Training of Trainers Session ICT in HORIZON2020

STIKK as ICT-KOSEU project partner organized a training session with 13 participants from the academia, the business sector and the government which was held March 28, 2014 at ICK. The lecturer Mr.Ulrich Boes, (URSIT, Bulgaria, ICT-KOSEU project partner) shared his experiences with participants for EC projects. He introduced the new rules, and offered best practices and provided examples of successful proposals .In the afternoon session, participants also had the opportunity to hear Dr.Venet Osmani, Group Leader and Research Fellow at CREATE NET, Trento and Adjunct Lecturer at University of Trento, Italy regarding his experience in EC projects. Dr. Osman presented a summary of HORIZON 2020 focusing on research perspective.Participants also had the opportunity to hear the experiences of Univ. – Prof.dr.techn.Dipl. – Ing Wolfgang Slany on Hands-on experiences on research projects .Mr. Boes concluded the day with where to find information regarding: the trainings, contacts, important organizations and guidelines for participation.All those interested about project and network opportunities can also register at the project web-site – www.ict-koseu.eu

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28.02.2014

STIKK participates in CeBIT for 5th time

With the goal of promoting Kosovo as an Outsourcing Destination, STIKK together with Adaptivit, Harrisia, ICK, IziSurvey and ZagApps will participate in the Europe’s biggest ICT Trade Fair, CeBIT 2014.

This year’s participation of STIKK and the companies was supported by SPARK, GIZ, NMFA (Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and IPAK. CeBITgathers around 4000 participants from 70 countries, of which on average was visited by 137 700 visitors from more than 120 countries. During these five days, the companies will have the possibility to meet with potential partners/investors, promote their company and the Kosovo ICT Sector as a potential outsourcing destination.

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27.02.2014

ICT-KOSEU: Information session on ICT

On March 27, 2014 STIKK as one of the ICT-KOSEU project partner organized an information session on Kosovo’s participation in the new EC Framework Programme HORIZON2020 at the MEST. Z. Ulrich Boes, from URSIT, Bulgaria also a ICT-KOSEU project partner offered the participants a general overview of HORIZON2020, the main goal of which is to simplify several aspects compared to the previous framework, however still there are many procedures to be followed. Horizon 2020 should support all stages in the research and innovation chain (including non-technological and social innovation, and activities that are closer to the market), with innovation and research actions having a different funding rate based on the principle that the closer to the market the supported activity is, the larger the additional funding from other sources should be.The participants also had an opportunity to hear from the experiences of Kosovar researches from Diaspora: Priv.-Doz.Eng.Nysret Musliu, associate professor and leader for research project at the Technical University of Viena, Austria, Dr.-Eng.Naim Bajçinca, Senior Researcher Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics of Complex Technical Systems & Control Theory and Lecturer in Technical University of Berlin on the topic of “Experience in research as a prerequisite for participation in research projects.” The meeting was concluded with the presentation by the STIKK representative mrs. Mjellma Alijaj on the Online Survey for ICT Research Roadmap, targeting ICT stakeholders. The roadmap will be aligning Kosovo’s ICT research priorities with the priorities set forth by HORIZON2020.

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11.02.2014

STIKK presents the research findings in the field of ICT

STIKK together with the EYE project presented the reports: Analysis of Lack of Skills in ICT and ICT Market Analysis in Kosovo, held on 11 February, 2014 at Hotel Sirius.These reports were compiled after the research conducted with about 500 companies in Kosovo in order to identify the potential growth and development of the ICT sector. The event hosted over 50 participants, ICT experts who participated in the discussion on the findings of research.

The research reports can be found at the following Links:

http://www.stikk-ks.org/uploads/downloads/STIKK_Analiza_E_Tregut_TIK.pdf

http://www.stikk-ks.org/uploads/downloads/Analiza_e_mangesise_se_shkathtesive_ne_TIK_.pdf

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27.01.2014

Business Tuesday #13

On January 14, 2014, at the Business Tuesday #13, experts and leader of the information and communication technology field in Kosovo discussed about the latest technology trends in Kosovo and the world for 2014 to an audience of over 60 people at the Innovation Centre Kosovo. It was stated that Kosovo is now joining the world trends in technology usage, whereby the request for mobile and web apps is predominant and necessary in various aspects of daily lives.“We are trying to promote Kosovo as a country where IT has a lot of prosperity and a huge potential” said Vjollca Çavolli the Executive Director of the Kosovo Association of Information and Communication Technology (STIKK). She stated that for the Kosovar youth technology is not only a part of the daily lives as a communication means, but rather a working tool even more.The audience had an opportunity to also listen to the presentation of Bersant Deva, PhD candidate at the Technical University of Berlin, Kujtim Gashi director of the Kosovo Information Society Agency, Dardan Sejdiu, Deputy Mayor of Prishtina and Hekuran Doli – CEO at Terabytespace.

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27.01.2014

ICT equipment exempt from customs duty

On January 16, 2014, the Law No. 04/L-163 ON GOODS EXEMPT FROM CUSTOM TAX AND GOODS WITH ZERO RATE OF THE CUSTOM TAX was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Kosovo. This law was approved in the 95th meeting of the Government of the Republic of Kosovo based on decision no .03 / 95 dated 17.10.2012 and since then , the law has passed both readings in parliament and the assembly, following which it was returned from the office of the President due to a contesting article from the legal office . After many vicissitudes and bureaucratic delays, the law was finally passed in the Assembly session in December 2013 . STIKK in cooperation with its members, with the aim of creating a more favorable legislative and policy environment for the development the ICT sector, was engaged regarding this law since its initiation process and has organized working groups composed of its members and stakeholders .Despite the fact that the approved list did not include all of the equipment suggested by STIKK and its members, this list provides a good basis upon which future requests can be build upon. This law will have an impact on the development of all sectors and Kosovo society itself, while reducing the cost of ownership of these devices. We as STIKK will continue to advocate for tax breaks by deducting VAT from 16 % to 5 % in ICT equipment.

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