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Indrek Vimberg Estonian ICT Demo Center

2012 Riga

Promoting ICT and

Cooperation

ICT Demo Center in

Estonia

• Community of ICT companies aiming for wider usage of IT services

• Opened January 29th, 2009

• Non-profit, funded by members

ICT Demo Center Members

Mediconnect

Goals of the ICT Demo Center

• To introduce Estonian ICT solutions worldwide

• To promote co-operation both on domestic and international level

• To support Estonian ICT sector export

• To establish an environment for integration and testing various IT solutions

In numbers

• 2009: 127 delegations, 50% international

• 2010: 270 delegations, 72% inter.

• 2011: 251 delegations, 90% inter.

• Started by 7 companies – 37 today

ICT Export Cluster

• 23 companies + 2 universities

• 2010 – 2013

• 639 000 €

ICT Cluster

• 16 companies + 3 universities

• 2012 – 2014

• 650 000 €

What cluster initiatives we are in

• Joint Marketing / Branding Estonian ICT

• Export knowledge and experience sharing

• People development and education

• Market research

• Joint visits to other markets

• Cooperation development with other sectors

• New initiatives and new clusters

What cluster initiatives can achieve

• New clusters incubation – Financial Living Lab

– Mobile Living Lab

– Infrastructure Data Handling

– e-Receipt

• e-Estonia ICT branding

• New markets

• ICT export growth

Lessons learned

• Why we need to do things together?

• Structure and processes should be in place in the beginning

• Different interest of cluster partners

• Project Management / Paperwork

• Flexibility

www.e-Estonia.com Indrek.Vimberg@demoestonia.com

Thank you

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