I really enjoyed this year’s Greek ICT Forum. It was an interesting two-days forum with exceptional speakers and a few unique take-outs which I provide here for you. They really worth being noted and quoted:
Theodoros Karounos, Prime Minister’s Advisor:
- apps.gov.gr (reflections on apps.google.com)
- Let us dare to create new best practices and not only copy them
- If $10M that was the initial investment for the development of UBUNTU could help transform IT industry, imagine what we could do if we carefully invested a few hundrend of millions.
- In the future, projects should be funded only if they are financially self-sustainable (except in outstanding cases of education and culture).
Costas Doukas, President Information Society S.A.:
- Efficiency improvement and the experience and know-how gained during the last years can help the country in the next round of financing to further enhance results.
Panagioris Tsanakas, Professor, NTUA:
- When discussing VDSL vs. FTTH we must make sure that we don’t compare apples with oranges. A VDSL investment plan can only have an horizon of maximum 3 years before it is surpassed by the market demand while it can inflict damages to the long-term national broadband plan. On the other hand, FTTH is a 30 years investment with clear committment expressed by the Government and significant socio-economic benefits.
Themis Papaioannou, Consultant:
- The low marginal cost of the next Mbit in high-speed access networks brings new opportunities for innovative business models (e.g. bandwidth on demand – being efficient to provide peak demand for a limited amount of time).
Ilias Koukouvinos, Vice President, Optronics S.A.:
- The cost of FTTH deployment in the city of Karditsa went eventually below the European average, and is much lower than the assumptions of the business plan for the national FTTH network.
Christos Bouras, Professor, University of Patras:
- We must build national, public infrastructures with long-term planning and not for addressing the immediate, contemporary socio-economic needs. This is precisely the reason why we still count bodies in our national highways. (ed. implicating low safety and construction standards of highways for the number of fatal car accidents)
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