This is the consequence made by researchers worded in the thematic No. 1/2007 for e-governance of Information Society Journal. Citation from the report on the conference from the link reads as follows: "The year of the introduction is 2007 for the fifth service level besides the 4 in effect and it is called targetization in lack of a suitable Hungarian term yet. This term means focusing attention and energy by which proactive and automatized services can be provided. It will render an indepth basis for measuring up to this level of service that was accepted in the new Act on general rules governing the procedures and services of public administration authorities last year and shall be in complience with the regular services like tax return and social benefit. E.g.: It is completely needless to ask the citizens’ data again and again that have already been required by public administration. However, the improvement of the 20 binding online services should reach the fifth level for the time being. For researchers it is perceptible that the domestic results would soon be thrown down to drain should further progress not pursue the thus far determined path. It is clear that the infrastructural developments will not generate indicators of larger usage neither in relation to ICT means, nor to e-services. Focus should urgently be brought onto resources by which citizens would accept and prefer e-administration. The research team of the Information Society and Research Institue (ITTK) attribute high importance in the near future to the effect what the public administration could achieve and observe with regards to the very progressive electronic administration procedure and information freedom laws. They highlight significance to what measure the Public Net would be developped into the citizens’ final access points and how much of the moderators, the so called IS mentors would stand at disposal." See details at: http://www.radio.hu
Mátyás Gáspár – 14 – 04 - 2007
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Professional public opinion seems to have accepted that the socialization of electronic public civil service is basicly subject to the acclimatization of the new vocation, worded as the public civil assistance and employment of IS mentors (IT-mentor) in all small communities. The following expert article analyses and critisizes the reform programs on the state and public civil service. Besides its criticism it emphasizes the public benefit and use of the local access points for communities, the telecottages (teleház), the eHungary points and the usefulness of IS mentors (IT-mentor) in contributing to perform the electronic public civil assistance at the final access points. You can read the article of Márton Goldberger with title Goals and Trends in Local Governmental Informatics, Computerworld, No. 50 of 2006 at http://computerworld.hu
Mátyás Gáspár – 05 – 04 - 2007
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Today, the 2nd April is a visitors’ record day of attendance (2454) and download (3739). The previous top visitors’ attendance of 2009 was reached on the 17th February, download record was set up on the 18th March. Let we click on “IT-mentor” (Hungarian expression for IS mentor) and we shall be astonished that concerning the term Hungarian web pages are the leaders. One can find 32,400 scores there at the time of writing this article, and it is the no. 12 reached by the best non-Hungarian and no. 17 by the second and no. 26 by the third runner up. Actually, regarding IS mentor term on the internet it is Hungarian scores which is by far the most dominant. We can also paraphrase the environment and see what is associated with this term in other countries, and then IT-mentor turns out to be an absolute Hungaricum. Internet displays the most satisfactory evidence for this. Hungary does open up new vistas on the new vocation for the world.
Mátyás Gáspár – 02-04-2007
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It is a long time since http://itmentor.lap.hu has operated including all important sources on the issue. As a service of Startlap it is an open possibility from now on that you can attend a public chat about IS mentoring, the profession, the training, the employment and other subjects inclusive. We would encourage all of you to offer this opportunity for those concerned to take part in the Forum. Should there come up any challenging queries or issues, the experts will be requested to provide suitable answer in relation. To attend the Forum you need to enter your records. Please click for route of IS Mentor Forum: http://lapforum.lap.hu
Mátyás Gáspár 21-03-2007

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3 days shorter in February, than in January and we have suffered a 1 day outage and still there is a attendance and load down record against last month. Newest attendance peak is 34,421 against 33,574 in January. Load down is 73,992 which is higher than 67,384 in January. These fairly substancial figures for growth seem to continue permanently. News about the launch of projects, trainings, governmental appreciation on the IS mentor profession as well as the international interest called on by e-Asia 2007 Telecentre Forum made the attention boosted to the web services that back up IS mentors. The majority of the visitors read news first, registrated users are relatively less in figures compared to them. Certainly, once neither the mass employment and institutionalisation of IS mentors, nor professional trainings has come to start.
Written by Mátyás Gáspár 01-03-2007
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Telefalu reports (see below) on the e-Asia 2007 Telecentre Forum that was held between 6 to 8 February at the Congress Center in Kuala Lumpur as shown in the picture. The Hungarian profession development IS-mentor was fairly challenging for the participants. In result of this succes within the framework of IDRC Telecentre.org program an international IS mentor program is to be launched associated with Hungarian partnership. The objective to perform is a general training scheme that can be adapted and applied to the different national training systems and finished in two years. While elaborating this scheme, efforts will be made that EUTA become a regional organization of the World Telecentre Academy, a worldwide network of telecottage training, with a centre in Hungary. The article of Telefalu on the Hungarian succes: http://telefalu.hu
Written by Mátyás Gáspár – 11-02-2007
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This is the location to place your ads, says the image.The growing attendance of IS-mentor system gives reason to enhance its promotion tools. This will create new facilities for its sustainability. The point is that some words can be seen as hyperlinks and links can be reached clicking on them. Comments are to line up relevant words to the given topics. Highlighted words in articles have been drawn up as hyperlinks so far and are to be pinned into news further on. For example ITTK is a link activating Information Society and Research Center, and IS-mentor expression is indicated three times in this article. The system would give an account on hyperlinks as well as clicks on them. Therefore effect could be observed and be summarized to advertisers. At first linked words could be followed up on the public pages, secondly ads could be implied into the internal ones. IS-mentor advertisment program has not yet been launched. However, to test it we have monitored hyperlinks within the frames of partnerships.
Written by Mátyás Gáspár – 10-02-2007
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Recently it has been expected to top off a daily atttendance peak simultaneously with January monthly visit record. On the 4th of February we could witness it with an attendance of 1,449 visitors. The previous daily attendance record of 1,357 visitors was noticed on the 14th March, 2006. Maximum number of daily downloads remains to be 4,865 observed on the 29th October, 2005. IS Mentor System has an ever growing popularity in our country and abroad. On the 6 to 8 February at the e-Asia Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia there was a fair success of IT Mentor System, no wonder that several Asian country would intend to cooperate in the application. Bangladesh is going to be the first to establish an IT Mentor application in its own native language. Interest in visiting IS Mentor site seems to show a basic growth.
Written by Mátyás Gáspár – 10-02-2007
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In our recent flash we accounted to host Seniour Program Manager of International Development Research Institution, Mr Frank Tulus in Hungary. Arrangements for meeting were prepared by European Union of TeleCottage Association and 4CLI. Aim of the 4 days visit was to investigate how the Hungarian experiences of TeleCottage projects and IS mentor vacational development would comply with some international programs and in addition what are the chances of Hungary to become an European Regional Centre being under organization by the Global Telecentre University. The meeting with the members of IS Mentor Association was held at the Foundation of Hungarian Culture in the Buda Hill on the 30th January. Mr Tulus learned the results coming from “EQUAL IS Mentor Project – Informatical Sector as an Employer”. He meant to speak with IS mentors trained in the project and understand situation and perspectives of the vacational development. After this meeting and presentations he held talks with dr. József Mlinarics, Director of MATISZ (Association of Hungarian e-Content), dr. László Erdély, Manager of Strategy of KEKKH (Central Office for Administrative and Electronic Public Services), dr. Gábor Zongor, Chief Secretary of TÖOSZ (Association of Hungarian Local Governments). Having been personally informed our guest could get knowledge of the commitment of sectors in community access and institutionalization of IT mentor service. Altogether with the additional programs – meeting held in Kajdacs TeleCottage, librarians in Szekszárd, talks with Ákos Csókay, of Ministry of Economy and Transport – it was fairly impressive to the Senior Manager of Telecentre.org for the future resolution to involve Hungary as a centre of TeleCottage worldwide service and European regional programs. Our guest could also have a walk round at Szentháromság tér (Trinity square) and Halászbástya (Fishermen’s Bastion) which are situated on the Buda Hill. In the centre of the air photo (see at link below) the seat of Foundation of Hungarian Culture, the spot of the meeting, can be seen surrounded by Church Mathias and Hotel Hilton. http://legifoto.civertan.hu
Written by Gáspár Mátyás
2007-02-03

Telefalu reports on the NetGrannie’s international meeting in Budapest. /see beyond/ It is arranged for all eldelry internet users who would be interested to take part. Special attention is drawn to Hungarian pensioners speaking at least one language of those spoken by the foreign guests, i.e. English, German, Russian, Polish or Spanish, so that they can make friends with their peer internet users in one another's country. Participants of the occasion are enabled to get to know computer programs for old age people and the results. A well-known fact, that Hungary is fairly put off regarding old age internet usage. Major part to do utmost for old age people here is performed by the Budapest Cultural Center, in order that elderly could avail themselves of world wide web ever so much better. You can find the whole article and registration contact at http://telefalu.hu
Written by Mátyás Gáspár – 01-02-2007
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