Completed Working Groups

 Regional Working Group on Information Technology
 
The Regional Working Group on Information Technology (WG on IT) was established in March 2001 and closed 2007. The main aims were to develop the Barents co-operation in the field of information technologies through joint projects and increased exchange of knowledge. Some of the major tasks of the Working Group were the following:

• The Barents Information Service (BIS)- A Gateway to Barents Information. The BIS-project aims collecting information on the Barents Region and edit it in to information packages for the internet, in a user-friendly BarentsInfo.org www-portal.
• eBarents - project is targeting the main cities in the Russian part of Barents Region, aiming at mapping out the basic IT infrastructure in the area.
• Other tasks
  – To develop a plan for the dissemination of ICT knowledge in the Barents region
  – Survey the possibilities of access to the Internet and the Internet tools on remote areas of the Barents Region
  – Co-operation with the ‘Barents Region 2010’-strategy and the Barents Regional Committee’s Information strategy

Members

Roland Lundquist - Chairman
County Administration of Vasterbotten / IT Vasterbotten
Skolgatan 11
92131 Lycksele, Sweden
e-mail roland.lundquist@itvasterbotten.org
phone +46 950 699699, +46 70 3411344
fax +46 950 699698

Norway: Per Eidsvik/Nordland, Lars Krogh/Finnmark, Sigurd Sjursen/Troms
Sweden: Katarina Gustavsson/Norrbotten, Roland Lundqvist, Västerbotten
Russia: Olga Buch/Murmansk, Vladimir A. Kolomentsev/Arkhangelsk, Natalia Ruzanova/ Karelia,  Andrej Panov/Nenets District  
Finland: Mikko Väisänen/North Ostrobothnia, Eero Vilhu/Kainuu, Liisa Kurppa/Lapland