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New education and decision
support model for active behaviour
in sustainable development based
on innovative web services
and qualitative reasoning
VYSOCINA
TERRITORY:
Vysočina is situated in the middle of the the Czech republic. The area of the region is 6.924,8 km2 and most of the region is covered by hills, forests and meadows.
POPULATION AND ECONOMIC SITUATION:
Vysočina has a population of 521.212, which is cca 5,1 % of total Czech population. Vysočina is densily populated: 75 inhabitants/km2. There are 729 municipalities,its centre and largest city is Jihlava (51.814 inhabitants).
Most of GDP of Vysočina is made up by small and middle-sized companies. 12 % of employed people work in agriculture. GDP of the region is cca 80.321.000.000 CZK. The unemployment rate in 2002 was 6,76 %.
THE REGION:
Vysočina is located halfway between Prague and Brno on the E50 motorway. There are 97 secondary schools, 18 grammar schools, 12 higher professional schools and 43 vocational schools. However no university has been founded in Vysočina, the existence of it is our prime goal. Natural environment in Vyso?a is of high quality. Number of protected nature areas and extent of forests, meadows, rivers and lakes in BohemianMoravian Highlands represent appropriate conditions for healthy life.
ICT:
Vysočina is specific Czech region due to its direct and effective IT politics. This region playes at present the key role in management of building the Information system of Public Administration on regional and national level. Vysočina controls several IT projects, where hig IT and GIT is tied with strong info-policy. In September Vysočina was the first from all Czech Public Authorities and Offices in the criterion of accessability of information, won a prize in national competition of web pages. Vysočina constituted a special grant Fund for finance assistance to realize its political aims (see in Regional Development Plan).
Special attention is given to IT project. The Region strongly facilitates the internetization of rural countryside in several milions of CZK per year (it is only a part of total costs). There also exists special grant program for GIS projects, where e.g. high GIT are implemented, like WMS/WFS, three types of webMap servers etc.). The Regional Authority has young, high qualified IT team and very effective contacts to local municipalities.