TECHNOLOGY FORESIGHT SUMMIT - Unido

156 International Practice in Technology Foresight
Contributors:
Marek Tiits (Permanent Secretary, Research and Development Council,
State Chancellary, Estonia)
Topic: “ICT Foresight as the Tool in Fostering Industrial Development in
the CEE”
Niko Schlamberger (State Undersecretary, Statistical Office of the
Republic of Slovenia)
Topic: “Measuring the Information Society”
Rapporteur:
Bálint Dömölki (Chairman, IQSOFT Intelligent Software Co. Ltd., Hungary)
TF PANEL 7: PROSPECTS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR AGRICULTURE
AND FOOD INDUSTRY
Time: 29 March 2003, 8.30-10.00
Room: Béla
• Impacts of integration to the European Union on the agriculture and
food industry of the Central and Eastern-European Countries and the
Newly Independent States;
• Longer-term thinking on possible scenarios dealing with structural
changes that will occur as a result of compliance with the “aquis
communitaire” in the post accession period;
• Agri-environment: Environmental issues in crop production are mainly
related to agro-ecological aspects, plant technologies as pollution
sources, sustainability, cultivated areas as wildlife habitat and landscape
management;
• Regional (foresight) programmes as potential tools for enhancing rural
development and eco-tourism;
• Product development: bio-products, marketing opportunities and difficulties
of traditional/regional specialities;
• Food quality and safety;
• New forms of cooperatives in the countries in transition:
— and storage, joint marketing
— Small/medium-size enterprises and multinational companies
(cooperation or competition?);
• New role of the state:
— Education and information of small-holders adult education, model
farms, consultative networks
— Introduction of compliance with EU norms in quality assurance
— EU accepted methods of protecting indigenous small-holders.