29.12.2010
Today's signing of a new three-year frame agreement marked the continuation of a successful cooperation between HT and City of Koprivnica on the project thanks to which Koprivnica became the first e-city in Croatia in March 2007. The new agreement was signed in Koprivnica by Zvonimir Mršić, the mayor of Koprivnica, and Irena Jolić Šimović, T-HT Management Board Member and Member of the Management Board and Chief Operating Officer Business. The same occasion was used to present a group of the best scholars of the City of Koprivnica with notebooks and mobile Internet.
As well as in the past three years, the single and integral HT communications solution will enable citizens to use the Internet free of charge and it will connect legal entities within the city. Thanks to the “e-City”, the citizens of Koprivnica will continue to be able to use the fast Internet at specific locations in the city, and the legal entities will be connected into a single whole by means of the contemporary technologies.
By means of the cutting-edge telecommunications solutions HT managed to connect 15 legal entities on 44 locations in the city. These entities include a kindergarten, museum, library, vocational training center, all three elementary schools in Koprivnica, music school, Youth Center, Podravsko sunce – Center for Education, Training and Rehabilitation, Koprivnički poduzetnik (Koprivnica Entrepreneur), Fire Brigade, Trg and Komunalac. Thanks to the “e-City” project, all citizens of Koprivnica, from kindergarten children, elementary school pupils and students to elderly people will be able to use the Internet at specific locations without and restrictions and free of charge during the next three years.
Moreover, HT will provide the employees of the legal entities with the private fixed telephony network, i.e. VPN, which enables free calls within the network and the possibility of keeping their current numbers.
Besides the services that enhance the communication, e.g. the use of common address books, mutual synchronization of tasks, as well as design and connection of separate web portals, the city of Koprivnica, together with a couple of other entities in Croatia among which also the Government of the Republic of Croatia, will continue to use eBoard IT. This is a system related to the decision making process. eBoard is a system that enables the users to review the adopted decisions, prepare future decision and to see the overall documentation. It also offers the possibility to manage and search documents from any location through a computer or mobile phone.
The future cooperation between HT and Koprivnica will additionally be enriched by another novelty: a separate MAXtv channel that will bring local events closer to the viewers and inform the viewers about the happenings in the town and events related to city life.
“The e-City project by which Koprivnica presented itself as a leader in the management innovation proved to be very efficient. It made the public services more available and enabled better quality of the provided services. The fast Internet availability to all public and educational institutions founded by the City of Koprivnica is of a great importance. The continuation of the cooperation is a logic consequence of the advantages that resulted from the e-City and that we have been able to witness in the past years,” said Zvonimir Mršić, the mayor of Koprivnica.
On the occasion of signing the agreement on continuation of the cooperation Irena Jolić Šimović, HT Management Board Member and Chief Operating Officer Business emphasized that “HT has a whole range of products for e-Cities that has been designed based on proven technologies and which enable simultaneous and more efficient business and improved daily communication between the city and its citizens. Koprivnica was one of the first cities to recognize the value of such products and proved that it is a city that uses the latest accomplishments in IT technology to its advantage and for the benefit of its citizens and community”.