ESIS extension / Key Person Contacts and Organisations / Latvia / Master Report

Overview July 1999: Latvia

Key organisations and key persons responsible for the processing and management of issues with respect to the Information Society in Latvia can be divided in three basic groups.

1. Ministries and Governmental Organisations

The main organisations of this group, included in the database are:

Ministry of Transport, Department of Informatics and Department of Communications
Co-ordination Board for the National Programme Informatics , Expert Board and Technical Board
Informatics Boards in Ministries,
Supervisory Boards of the main state significance IS Projects,
State Information Network Agency VITA

The Minister of Transport administers the National Programme Informatics in Latvia. For co-ordination of this complex Program a widely represented Co-ordination Board and the Boards of Informatics in all Ministries and many local governments were formed.

Supervisory boards for 3 long-term complex informatics investment projects of state significance were formed:

for the National Integrated Library Information Network project (transformed into an individual limited company in the framework of the Ministry of Culture),
for the Education Informatization System project;
for the State Revenue Service Information System project.

2. Research Institutes and Organisations

This group includes academic organisations and their departments with significant role in the education, R&D, IS Projects and other IS related activities. Some of them are:

University of Latvia
Riga Technical University
Latvian Academic Library
Latvian Academic Network LATNET
Latvian IT Standardisation Technical Committee
Riga Information Technology Institute
F E M I R C - L A T V I A

3. State and private commercial enterprises

There are telecommunications operators, data transmission service providers, radio, TV and cable TV operators as well as hardware and software manufacturers among institutions of the third group:

Lattelekom
Latvia Mobile Telephone
BaltCom
Telia Latvia
DT Media Group
Alise
Consortium of the Library Information Network

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