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Wednesday, 5/23/2012 3:00 PM - 6:30 PM, Liburna, Hotel Admiral, Opatija Papers  1. m. vidas-bubanja (Beogradska poslovna skola-visoka skola strukovnih studija, Beograd, Serbia) GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVE OF INFORMATION SOCIETY INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT  The world is experiencing the severe financial and economic crisis, the worst since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis that originated in the US sub-prime mortgage market led to a widespread credit crunch, with spillover effects throughout the global financial and banking sector. Virtually no economy was spared from the economic downturn, with many countries officially entering into recession during 2009. While the most immediate and pressing impact of the financial crisis has been the lack of readily available credit, it is expected that its mid and long-term effects will still be felt in the timing of economic recovery and in persistently high unemployment rates in many countries. Accepting the fact that Information technology (IT) and the Internet are major drivers of research, innovation, growth and social change, this paper analyses the impact of current economic crisis on future perspective for further innovation and development of information society, as well as the potentials offered by ICT in overcoming the stagnant trends and support further economic and technological development. In the ICT sector, the scarcity of credit had an immediate and direct impact on the ability of telecom operators and ICT companies to fund expansion and innovation. During the crisis, new investments were postponed or scaled back, as investors became more cautious. Moreover, ICT companies and telecom operators came under further price pressure for their services as consumers’ purchasing power diminished and unemployment rates increased dramatically. The economic downturn has posed significant challenges to governments regarding the most appropriate policies to tackle the crisis. Studies have shown that ICT can contribute greatly to productivity growth across many different industrial sectors and is a key engine driving growth of the overall economy. It can play a vital role in fuelling economic recovery by creating jobs, fostering innovation and promoting competition. ICT enable new forms of civic engagement and participation, and provide new opportunities for employment, education, health and public services. Current technological progress like WEB 2.0 services, virtualization and cloud computing, dynamic rise of mobile technology and broadband connections create new opportunities for developing models and strategies, organization change and higher education levels in order to overcome economic crisis. Priorities are now on getting the economy moving, focusing on ICT skills and employment, broadband diffusion, ICT R&D and venture finance, and a major new emphasis on using ICTs to tackle environmental problems and climate change. Serbia, being at the beginning of information society development, has to define proper infrastructure-organization-human framework to tap all the advantages offered by new technologies in order to overcome economic crises and to enable more competitive work of domestic enterprises and higher growth rates of national economy. 2. A. Skendžić (Veleučilište Nikola Tesla u Gospiću, Gospić, Croatia), B. Kovačić (Sveučilište u Rijeci-Odjel za informatiku, Rijeka, Croatia) Office Suites in the Cloud: Microsoft Office 365 Versus Google Apps  Cloud computing is based on the rent of architecture to perform various tasks, where all communications between a client and a computer in the "cloud" provides by the Internet. More prevalent types of services in the cloud are: a) Software as a service – SaS, b) Platform as a service and c) Infrastructure as a Service - IAS. The biggest advantage of cloud computing is the use of resources and services which are especially beneficial to smaller companies that are just starting in business and can avoid the purchase of expensive equipment to perform certain tasks. The most famous big IT corporations in the field are Google and Amazon. Microsoft Office 365 in combination with Microsoft Windows Azure platform ensures companies of all sizes high productivity with low costs, saving time, money and free up valuable resources. Microsoft Office 365 is a combination of familiar desktop tools such as Office 2010 with communication networks and next-generation collaborative services like Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and Lync Online. This article will show features of the new MS Office 365 platform based on the "cloud" concept as cost-effectiveness in the same business domain. The same product will be compared with the existing Google Apps competitor. 3. B. Krce Miočić , L. ZEKANOVIĆ KORONA , M. MATEŠIĆ (University of Zadar , Zadar , Croatia) Adoption of Smart Technology in Croatian Hotels  One of the most important subsegments of tourism supply is hotel industry, nowadays suffering from significant market saturation. In such conditions, the impact of the hotel on the sale price is limited by competition, and a key to a long-term profitability of the hotel industry is in its focusing on achieving specific, sustainable and competitive advantages. In addition to the hotel market saturated by supply, crucially significant are ever more diverse and complex needs and demands of hotel guests. In other to satisfy more efficiently these increasingly complex and diverse requirements of market demand, and to face the growing competition, hoteliers are aiming at differentiating the hotel product and at the standardization of services. The research problem of this paper refers to the possibility of implementing smart technologies into hotel industry. Consequently, this paper considers the possibility of implementation of new technologies into hotel industry in order to create new procedures, techniques and processes, which would result in an innovative new product necessary to achieve competitive advantage in a saturated tourist market and thus to achieve a new leap in its development. Technology Readiness Index was used in data processing, which measures the willingness of hotel management to accept and use new technology products and services. 4. I. Arbanas (Veleučilište "Nikola Tesla" u Gospiću, Gospić, Croatia) E-Uprava: e-porezne prijave  Efikasno suvremeno poslovanje temelji se na korištenju suvremenih informacijsko-komunikacijskih tehnologija (ICT), tj. elektroničkom poslovanju-e-poslovanju. Kao pretpostavku za razvoj i povećanje konkurentnosti hrvatskog gospodarstva, a nakon što postane članica EU sukladno i Digitalnoj agendi za Europu, koju je donijela Europska komisija u okviru strategije Europa 2020, Republika Hrvatska mora osigurati preduvjete za uspješno e-poslovanje te poticati i razvijati sve oblike e-poslovanja i primjenu ICT-a u svim sektorima gospodarstva i sferama društva. Jedan od koraka za postizanje navedenih ciljeva je i projekt e-Uprava. Cilj ovog projekta je, u interakciji s korisnicima, povezivanje funkcija raznih tijela javne uprave, tj. postizanje interoperabilnosti sustava u tijelima javne uprave. Projekt e-Uprava treba doprinijeti ubrzavanju poslova s javnom upravom, povećanju transparentnosti i efikasnosti rada, smanjenju troškova poslovanja te povećanju kvalitete pruženih usluga i zadovoljstva korisnika. U radu se analizira projekt e-Uprava i njegov utjecaj na poslovanje poduzetnika i ostale korisnike na primjeru podnošenja e-poreznih prijava. Izložena je zakonska regulativa i opisano funkcioniranje sustava e-Porezna, navedeni su preduvjeti i način podnošenja e-poreznih prijava, analizirano je korištenje ICT-a u poslovanju u RH i EU 27 i prepreke za veću primjenu ICT-a u poslovanju u RH te su navedena zaključna mišljenja i dati prijedlozi za moguća poboljšanja. 5. H. Bezić (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Economics, Rijeka, Croatia), P. Karanikić (University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia), E. Tijan (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Maritime Studies, Rijeka, Croatia) Competence Database: a Precondition for Successful Technology Transfer  Technology transfer is, in a narrow sense, a formal transfer of rights to use and commercialize new discoveries and innovations resulting from scientific research. Several preconditions have to be met for successful technology transfer. University of Rijeka had, within the Science and Technology Project (STP), met some of necessary preconditions for successful technology transfer, but unfortunately this project ended in May 2011, leaving some of the work unfinished. The IPA IIIc project „Development of Innovation System at Ruđer Bošković Institute and University of Rijeka“ helped in realizing some other technology transfer preconditions. In this paper the main preconditions of successful technology transfer will be discussed, the preconditions of University of Rijeka will be stated, and the future steps for successful commercialization of University of Rijeka scientific research results will be analyzed. 6. D. Lacmanović (Technical faculty "Mihajlo Pupin", Zrenjanin, Serbia), I. Lacmanović (Vojvodjanska banka NBG Group, Zrenjanin, Serbia) Mobile Banking - Financial Services Technology  The mobile and Internet market has been one of the fastest growing markets in the world and it is still growing at a rapid pace. This opens up new markets for financial institutions interested in offering value added services with reduction in cash usage and its associated costs. With mobile technology, banks can offer a wide range of services to their customers transfer funds between accounts and will have immediate and full control over their finances or even performing stock trading while being in traffic. Mobile devices, due to their ability to provide services anytime and anywhere, have a high rate of penetration and potential to grow. This paper describes the basic concepts, services offered and technology which enables Mobile Banking. 7. B. Kraut (Alcyone d.o.o., Maribor, Slovenia) Prognosis: Cloudy with SAAS  Most of the IT industry recognized the power of cloud and grid computing. Next generation of SAAS applications is already drastically increasing business performance and offers unimaginable information integration, fusing with new and existing applications, leveraging newest social communication platforms and professional services. This new wave of global IT infrastructure is rapidly changing the way the users work, think and collaborate. New web technologies like HTML5 and sophisticated javascript libraries are providing rich user interfaces which perform like classical desktop systems and in combination with scalable and flexible architecture open new possibilities for better, faster and more controlled integration of information sources. This brings some challenges and issues which must be addressed before potential information loss, security vulnerability or unintended sharing. How will next generation of software look like and where is it shifting to? Several answers are emerging, lets take a look. 8. V. Lazovic, T. Djurickovic (Faculty of Economics, University of Montenegro, Podgorica, Montenegro) eGovernment and the Digital Divide  Many governments around the world are using information and communication technologies with aim to increase realiability, transparency and quality of services but also to modernize and change the way the administrations work. With development of eGovernment services, users can easily and quickly access the services they need any time they whant and they already feel the benefits of these actions. However, the fact that technology is available, by itself does not imply that it is accessible to everyone. By the end of 2011, the world has become home for more than 7 billion citizens, but only 2 billions are internet users. Althought eGovernment has become a powerfull tool that governments use to get closer to the citizens, there is still a paradox that those who most need to use the servises provided by governments, are the ones that usually do not have access to these services. The term digital divide has been used since 1990s and nowdays it describes the difference in use of technology, developed as a result of lack of access, skills, or even interest in using of technology. This paper aims to analyze the potential of eGovernment implementation on the reduction (or expansion) of the digital divide. 9. S. Aksentijević (SAIPEM MEDITERAN USLUGE d.o.o., Rijeka, Croatia), E. Tijan (Pomorski fakultet, Rijeka, Croatia), B. Hlača (Lučka uprava Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia) Investment Analysis of Information Security Management in Croatian Seaports  Existing models of Information Security Management Systems in seaports usually involve threat evaluation, vulnerability management and risk analysis. Threat evaluation is a catalogue based analysis, outlining various applicable protection levels related to architecture, hardware, software and personnel, aiming to standardize the information security management approach. Vulnerability analysis is attempting to evaluate organizational and technical aspects of all information security components in terms of their inherent flaws. Risk analysis combines both threat and vulnerability analysis in order to define countermeasures in an objective, measurable and sustainable way. However, very often all three possible approaches are devoid of economic and financial analysis of seaport information security investments. In this paper authors propose a combined model which includes both technical and financial approach to information security management and decision-making in Port Community Systems. 10. I. Ćulumović Županović (Politehnika Pula - University of Applied Sciences, Pula, Croatia), E. Tijan (Pomorski fakultet, Rijeka, Croatia) QR Codes as a time management tool in m-learning  The constant development and increased usage of ICT, especially mobile communications and Web technologies, has enabled users to use specific ICT solutions such as automatic identification and data capture technique using QR Codes in order to improve the learning processes. This paper researches the benefits of using QR Codes in m-learning and presents examples of how the QR Codes can be used to improve those processes. The Universities and other education institutions should implement m-learning to provide their students "just in time" information and learning materials, in order to accomplish distance learning. This can easily be achieved by using QR Codes for the purpose of better time management for both parties: students and professors. 11. B. Kovačić, I. Jugo, V. Slavuj (University of Rijeka, Department of Informatics, Rijeka, Croatia) Improvement of system for distance learning based on dialogue by appliance of statistical analysis  Abstract - Information technology has crucial importance in e-commerce. E-commerce includes many fields of information technology and their practical usage. The users of e-commerce need to receive a thorough and up-to-date education about the new technological solutions in order to maximize the usage of new technologies and services developed using these technologies. The education of e-commerce users is done through a dialogue-based distance learning system. The system is based on the analysis of a learner’s feedback, research of the defined structure of the knowledge domain and generation of new learning materials/units. In order to help e-commerce users to better understand and learn basic and advanced e-commerce services, a specialized knowledge domain about e-commerce was defined as part of our distance learning system. A decrease in learning time leads to a more efficient usage of the services offered and increases the productivity of e-commerce. Statistical analysis, based on monitoring every activity of a user working with the learning system, allows for implementation of adaptive components designed to reduce learning time and maintain the quality level of the newly acquired knowledge. Applying such a system for distance learning enables education of many users, regardless of time and space, and reduces learning time.