About Cepit

The Centre for Research of Information Technologies (CePIT) was founded in 2001.
CePIT's mission is: Development and research of Information Society.

CePIT has started project “Virtual schools” in 2002. in order to facilitate development of Internet based distance learning education in Serbia - development of original e-learning methodology in Serbia based on the principles of multimedia and Internet communication. In this way educational programs of BOS became accessible to interested citizens of Serbia residing outside of Belgrade. Since 2002, CePIT conducted nine e-courses.

Important field of CePIT's engagemant is research of internet usage and effects of ICT's on individuals and the society as a whole. During the year 2002, CePIT has conducted the first empirical study of internet users in Serbia (on a sample of users from Belgrade). Results of this study have been published in a book "Internet pregled: Beograd 2002" ( Internet survey: Belgrade 2002 ). In 2003 CePIT has conducted a new study which encompassed a sample of 1000 users from all 25 regions of Serbia. Results of this study have been published in a book "Globalni građani" ( "Global Citizens" ). In January 2005 a third CePIT's book from this series has came out from the press. It is entitled "Perspektive umrežavanja" ( "Perspectives of Networking" ) and it brings the results of the study of internet users from 8 capital cities in the region of South East Europe, carried out by CePIT in 2004.

Organisation of seminars, panel discussions and conferences for BOS students and for wider public, in order to develop critical thinking regarding the IT and their influence on the modern society.

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THE LIST OF PROJECTS REALIZED SINCE 2002:

Round table “Internet and Public Sphere in Serbia”, 20 participants, 15th April 2008.

Mingl online school “Little School of Journalism”, 20 participants, March – May 2008.

Two days workshop “Information Technologies for Inclusive Society”, 20 participants, Belgrade, 8th and 9th February 2008.

Web portal ICT for an Inclusive Society for experts dealing with creation of inclusive society in Serbia, December 2007.

Two issues of online magazine “e-volucija” (available only in Serbian): Cyber Praxis and Techno-utopias and Techno-realisms, 2007.

Research study “Internet and Public Sphere in Serbia” (available only in Serbian - “Internet i javna sfera u Srbiji”), December 2007.

Workshop “Inclusive eGovernment”, 40 participants, 11th December 2007.

Study on eGovernment Services in Serbia (available only in Serbian), November 2007.

Web portal Mingl – first Serbian info-web service for high school students, launched in November 2007.

Consultation workshop aimed at identifying of research priorities for ICT research field for Serbia, 18 ICT experts, in cooperation with the Information Society Serbia, 22nd June 2007.

Second Thematic Workshop on FP7, Belgrade, 24th May 2007.

Thematic workshop on FP7, Belgrade, 8-9 February 2007

Internet and PC Penetration in Serbia 2006, empirical study, december 2006

Four issues of online magazine "e-volucija" (only in Serbian): Online Behaviour, Music in Digital Enviroment, Knowledge Society, Art as an Information, 2006

Online school "European Integration", 21 participants, secondary education students from gymnasiums of Mladenovac, Obrenovac, Third Belgrade Gymnasium and High School of Economics and Trade in Sopot, October-December 2006

Reserach study on Internet and PC penetration in Serbia, October 2006

Regional online programme "Information Society", 22 participants from Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Monenegro and Serbia, May-July 2006. godine

Lecture on Online Behaviour as a part of series of lectures named “Psychological implications of Internet usage”, 13th April 2006, Narodni univerzitet Kolarac

"Developing Network - Information Society in Serbia 2005", empirical study on Internet users and non-users

IS2WEB Mentoring Workshop for the participation in the FP6/IST thematic area, 40 participants, Belgrade, 22nd February 2006

Virtual School "Politics and Culture", for high school students, 21 participants from Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, October - November, 2005

Regional e-learning programme "Information Society", 24 participants from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro, April-July 2005

9th issue of "e-volucija", magazine on Information Society, 2005

Virtual School "European Integration", for high school students, 20 participants from Serbia and Montenegro, April - June, 2005

Workshop on e-signature and its usage, february 2005

Perspectives of Networking - Internet in 8 capitals of Southeastern Europe, January 2005

8th issue of "e-volucija", magazin on information society, 2004

Collection of essays of participants of CePIT's regional online programme European Integrations, December 2004

7th issue of "e-volucija", magazin on information society, 2004

Round Table "Initiation of Information Serbia", organised by British Council and Cepit, 21st December 2004

6th issue of "e-volucija", magazin on information society, 2004

Virtual School "What is Democratic Society", for high school pupils, 23 participants from Serbia and Republic of Srpska, two months, 2004

Regional virtual school "European Integration - a view from the Balkans 2004", for political parties', NGOs, trade unions' activists, students and young professionals from ex Yugoslavia, 20 participants, 11th April - 19th November 2004

Seminar "Using Internet in Serbia", organised by British Council and Cepit, 21st June 2004

"e-volucija", magazin on information society, 5th issue: Initializing of Cyber Culture, 2004

Virtual School "Little School of Journalism", for high school students from 8 towns in Serbia, 24 participants, March - May 2004

"Global Citizens - Empirical Study of Internet Users in Serbia 2003", March 2004

Magazine of participants of virtual course "Little School of Journalism I" named "New School", published as an appendix of Magazine "Prosvetni pregled", February 2004

"Collection of essays of CePIT's Virtual Courses Participants: Transition, Globalization, European Integrations", February 2004

Collection of essays "Aspects of Globalisation", December 2003

"e-volucija", (ISSN 1451-8112) magazine on information society, four issues: Serbia in E-volution, New Forms of Art, Cyberspace and its Inhabitants, Double click for Knowledge, 2003

Campaign "E-volution… Cyber Space and Its Inhabitants”, consisting of 7 public discussions: What is Internet, Serbia and E-volution, New Babylon Library, Globalisation and IT, Knowledge on Click, New Art Forms, Cyber Space and Its Inhabitants, November 2003

Virtual School "European Integration", for broad public, 34 participants, October 2003

Virtual School "Little School of Journalism", for high school pupils, 23 participants, October 2003

Two virtual schools, each for 20 participants: "Aspects of Globalisation", for broad population, and "What is a Democratic Society", for high schools pupils, April-June 2003

Public discussion "Internet Survey: Belgrade 2002", organized with the Belgrade City Library, February 2003

"Internet Survey - Belgrade 2002", empirical study on Internet users in Belgrade, 2003

Two virtual schools: one for students and NGO activists "Serbia in Transition" and one for gymnasia "The Foundations of Democracy", October 2002

Seminar "Internet, Culture, Media", Belgrade, 20 participants, 3 days, May 2002

Seminar "Internet, Culture, Society", Belgrade, 20 participants, 4 days, March 2002

Seminar "Internet, Society, Individual", Belgrade, 20 participants, 3 days, December 2001