1stlife.atThe AIC blog will cover topics related to Austrian Information Technology & Management consultants who are active abroad and primarily the AIC activities aiming at increasing the volume of their business operations outside of Austria. Austrian International Consultants - AIC provide a multidisciplinary platform constituted out of Austrian IT developers, management consultants, architects, engineers, planners and lawyers. The main task of this organisation is to support their consultants to increase Austria’s export volume and export quota in the field of knowledge intensive business services. Please find more information about AIC activities on our website under http://www.a-i-c.at/en/content1.php?bereichID=15 or get directly in contact with me via email igor.starcevic@a-i-c.at . It took me more time to write my next post than I have expected. There were a several interesting things concurrently going on in the background and a lot of work to be done. There were a many attractive tenders and several interesting events which were either organised by ARGE PBE or by some other partner organisation. There was a very interesting tender in Russian Federation - RU-Moscow: Tacis http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/58 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:32:00 +0200 http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/58 In my last post I have raised the question how to successfully internationally commercialize the Austrian eGovernment success story. I am still not sure what can be the top-down approach, or broad model which could lead toward sustainable success, but would like to briefly present one successful model, developed by another EU eGovernment champion; Estonia. The Estonian e-Government Academy http://www.ega.ee/ was firstly started as a joint initiative of the Government of Estonia, the Open Society Institute (OSI) and the Regional Support Centre of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where currently is 100% self-financed. They describe their self as a non-governmental, non-profit organisation, founded for the creation and transfer of knowledge concerning e-governance, e-democracy and the development of civil society. eGa http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/49 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:22:00 +0200 http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/49 Since my last post, we still didn http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/43 Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:51:00 +0100 http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/43 I have spent most of the week working with one of my clients, Austrian consultants, Mr. Novak from CeConsult (IT & Management consulting) and Mr. Helbl from iC Consulenten(Civil Engineering Consulting) and Ms. Reiss from Austrian Energy Agency(Civil engineering & Management Consulting) on establishing the consortium with one Croatian IT and Management Consulting company aiming toward submitting the joint Expression of Interest - EOI for one project in Croatia. The HBOR http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/41 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:36:00 +0100 http://www.1stlife.at/home/epunetzwerk/blog/8/41