The three year €9.2 million project, completed in March 2011, brought together researchers and companies from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Greece, Spain, UK and the US to find methods of managing traffic so that congestion at choke points of the network is minimised, thus resulting in better quality connections for Internet users. The EU contributed €5.9 million in ICT research funding.
Read more: MT: EU-funded project could bring more powerful broadband
Technologies have taken over the way we communicate, think, travel and learn and have infiltrated our lives in ways that no one would have thought possible 40 years ago, when the Defence Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA) was developing its first data gram network which evolved into what is now known as the internet.
The past four decades have seen information and communication technologies (ICT) evolve to such an extent that infrastructure is no longer at the top of the business agenda. As long as we are provided with the essentials, we can really run multinational companies from anywhere. Today, we are living in extremely exciting times and this is what essentially made the ICT Gozo Malta (ICTGM) project team believe that ICT is an ideal opportunity for Gozo and its economy.
Read more: MT: Gozo moves another step closer to being an ICT centre of excellence
Implementation starts in October 2011. All schools are to have access by mid-2013.
Read more: MT: Government invests €8.6m in an eLearning Solution
The portal, www.ehealth.gov.mt is part of an on-going campaign aimed to increase awareness on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. Previous campaigns included educational messages to increase awareness of cancer, high blood pressure, heart disease, alcohol abuse, smoking and the benefits of exercise among others.
The 'eGovernment General Survey' and the 'eGovernment User Satisfaction' were conducted online by the Malta Information Technology Agency (MITA) during 2010.
Read more: MT: Survey shows that 86 % of users are satisfied with eGovernment services