Intel Corp. chairman visits Belgrade
Craig Barrett, chairman of the board of the Intel Corporation is in Belgrade today, where he met with Deputy Prime Minister Božidar Đelić.
Friday, 06.03.2009.
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Craig Barrett, chairman of the board of the Intel Corporation is in Belgrade today, where he met with Deputy Prime Minister Bozidar Djelic. Barrett spoke with Djelic about cooperation and discussed ways to advance Serbia’s information and communication technology sectors, Beta news agency reported. Djelic announced a plan, through cooperation with the world's leading chipmaker, to provide computers for all primary schools. Intel Corp. chairman visits Belgrade “We planned activities in the area of education, research and enterprise, and how to increase spread of the internet,” said Barrett. Barrett said that in Serbia, Intel plans to establish cooperation with universities in research and cooperate with educational institutions, and added that such activities are planned in other European countries as well. Serbia looks to cooperate with the American corporation to supply computers to all middle school students in Serbia and begin to use them in teaching, says Djelic. The deputy prime minister and minister for science said that that the program could begin to be implemented in September 2010 or 2011 at the latest, depending on how ready the education system will be. “We’ll have a meeting in April in California about that idea and we expect to develop that plan by the summer,” he said, adding that it was an “ambitious plan”, butthat he believes Serbia has the capacity to carry it out. According to Djelic, computers would become part of the structural makeup of teaching from first grade, while primary school students "would not only use them in school but would take them home as well". Teacher training would begin in the first half of next year; the plan would be carried out with the education ministry, Telekom Srbija and other institutions, while partners would include Microsoft, Intel and Serbian IT companies. The deputy prime minister said that the pilot project of introducing computers to schools has been applied in the Jovan Miodragovic elementary in the Belgrade neighborhood of Vracar, which was today visited by Intel representatives. Djelic also stated that he had spoken with Barrett about the possibilities of cooperation in the realm of research in order to open a research center in Serbia in the future. As he said, these centers exist in 18 countries in the world and “there’s no reason not to open one of such in Serbia.” According to Djelic, there are plans to include an Intel representative in the selection of the technological innovation of the year in Serbia. “We are preparing the best ideas to be financed by Intel, which is the biggest fund for investment in technology in the world,” he added. “This was an extremely important meeting and we expect to develop all of those ideas by summer.” Intel opened a regional office in Belgrade in November 2007. Barrett (right) and Djelic meet in Belgrade (Beta)
Intel Corp. chairman visits Belgrade
“We planned activities in the area of education, research and enterprise, and how to increase spread of the internet,” said Barrett.Barrett said that in Serbia, Intel plans to establish cooperation with universities in research and cooperate with educational institutions, and added that such activities are planned in other European countries as well.
Serbia looks to cooperate with the American corporation to supply computers to all middle school students in Serbia and begin to use them in teaching, says Đelić.
The deputy prime minister and minister for science said that that the program could begin to be implemented in September 2010 or 2011 at the latest, depending on how ready the education system will be.
“We’ll have a meeting in April in California about that idea and we expect to develop that plan by the summer,” he said, adding that it was an “ambitious plan”, butthat he believes Serbia has the capacity to carry it out.
According to Đelić, computers would become part of the structural makeup of teaching from first grade, while primary school students "would not only use them in school but would take them home as well".
Teacher training would begin in the first half of next year; the plan would be carried out with the education ministry, Telekom Srbija and other institutions, while partners would include Microsoft, Intel and Serbian IT companies.
The deputy prime minister said that the pilot project of introducing computers to schools has been applied in the Jovan Miodragović elementary in the Belgrade neighborhood of Vračar, which was today visited by Intel representatives.
Đelić also stated that he had spoken with Barrett about the possibilities of cooperation in the realm of research in order to open a research center in Serbia in the future.
As he said, these centers exist in 18 countries in the world and “there’s no reason not to open one of such in Serbia.”
According to Đelić, there are plans to include an Intel representative in the selection of the technological innovation of the year in Serbia.
“We are preparing the best ideas to be financed by Intel, which is the biggest fund for investment in technology in the world,” he added. “This was an extremely important meeting and we expect to develop all of those ideas by summer.”
Intel opened a regional office in Belgrade in November 2007.
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