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"Nico Weenink (Noki)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear all,

In an article in the AutomatiseringsGids (a Dutch magazine about ICT) I read
an article which was titled: Internet needs creativity. I won't bore you
with a translation of the whole article, but I will grab some quotes and
statements from it, and I would like to know your opinion.
Dialogics Inc. did research for the Dutch Ministery of Traffic in the
strategies of Internet companies. He concludes that "new internet companies
see themselves as innovators. The rest, mostly advertising companies and
publishers, don't have a real strategie. They follow to survive."
Furthermore he says: "The employability in the ICT has been doubled in the
last few years, the ICT-industrie grows double as hard as other industries.
Without any ICT-company stock exchanges wouldn't be as good as they are
now." Later:
"At this moment business-to-business is the most profitable, on line selling
of consumer products is not that what it should have been. Crucial is the
acceptance of ICT in public. There are less new ideas, most of the Internet
is based on exsisting information in a new suit."
About small internet companies he says the following: "They are leading the
business, all of the creativity is comming from small companies. But the
marketresponse is so dramatically quick that they aren't able to really
innovate and adapt new technologies."

Sorry for the faulty translation, but I was wondering what you think of
these statements. Are the smaller, upcoming internet companies really
innovators, and are they truely leading 'the blind' (publishers, etc.). I
doubt that! From my experience publishers invest large amounts of money in
development and adaption of XML and SGML, but it's not very profitable now,
these are long term investments.
The Dutch government is heavily investing in new media and ICT-companies and
I am curious how the situation is in other countries. Do governments in
other countries play a role in the acceptance of Internet? And is it true
that the small companies are innovators? What about the universities?

Kind regards,

Noki.

Nico Weenink (Noki)
Student at Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands
Faculty of Mathematics and Computational Science
Faculty of Literature
+31 (0)30-2963787 - [log in to unmask]

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