The island of Cyprus
has incredible potential and vision toward becoming a communication hub
or link between Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa as well as
bringing the level of technology up to the level appropriate to their
community status. There is much opportunity present to bring about these
changes from various government funded foundations, EU initiatives (see
National IT Policies), a large
population of Cypriot expatriate scientists (see Domestic
Production), and a filling IT pipeline from their universities (see
IT Workforce). However a few recognized
changes must occur in both funding and legislation by the government and
encouragement of private firms to establish IT presence on the island.
The current spending is indeed present but certainly not at the levels
required to spring the society forward and head on into a technologically
savy world. (see IT Financing and Size
of Domestic IT Market) The largest breakdown between the current state
of affairs and the vision state seems to be the not so simple task of
acting. There has been significant talk floating around the island for
over ten years, but the implementation of some of the thoughts seems to
bottleneck. Most probably this bottleneck occurs from a combination of
the above mentioned items. It would certainly be a shame if the island
of Cyprus with its unbelievable potential and literal position did not
take advantage of and benefit in the increasingly global world of business.
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