1. WWW Indicators Update October 2000 - January 2001

Compared to the actual possibilities and needs, there is still an unsatisfactory number of official WWW sites, mainly as a result of the financial and economic problems.

In the last three months, there have been major changes in the number of new active WWW sites, in the categories of interest. Actually, the number of Web sites in category "Primary and secondary schools" increased from 16 to 30, the number of Web sites in category "Regional and local authorities" increased from 46 to 55, and the number of Web sites in category "Hospitals/Clinics" increased from 20 to 40.

Data presented in this report is based on information collected from a number of WWW sites, specified in the table below.

Notes:

1 - Data for Sarajevo, Tuzla Canton, Zenica Canton, Tesanj, Prijedor, and Banja Luka.
2 - The education system is organised such that faculties organised together exist in universities.

Concerning the overall project period, the following key elements and factors have to be noted:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina was passing through a very hard post-war period,
• Financial and economic situation was a typical post-war, with a lots of war damaged objects, and a lots of refugees,
• The country is divided in two entities with a high degree of autonomy,
• There are two separate state owned Telecomm enterprises, one in each entity,
• Telecommunication infrastructure was damaged during the war, without necessary maintenance and modernization,
• Reconstruction and modernization of telecommunication infrastructure play major role in the overall reconstruction activities in both entities,
• Interest for establishing Internet connection is very high,
• Economic situation is a main factor for establishing Internet connections, and consequently WWW sites,
• Academic population is a main force toward the Internet, which can be seen in Recapitulative table below. Each University and faculty has its own WWW site, with more or less information posted on it, whereas in other categories there is a lot of work to be done yet.
• There are few private Internet providers, despite the interest.
• The cost for Internet connection is very high.

The following table shows in a general sense the evolution of the total number of websites in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the project period. From this table, it can be easily seen that the total number of websites is continuously growing. However, these numbers are not satisfactory and are expected to grows in the next few years, until the complete country will be connected.

A graph to show the evolution of the total number of websites as a percentage of the total number of institutions across a range of key public actors