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Energy supply remains the greatest challenge for many of Eastern European countries and their economy. In post-soviet and ex-Yugoslavian countries, till today there exists a system where some of the power plants rely on high voltage (HV) and medium voltage (MV) power grids in the process of distribution of electric energy (EE) to final consumers. This makes them vulnerable to solar storms due to HV power transformers which are especially sensitive to geomagnetic induced current (GIC). The acquisition of electrical power infrastructure could put the electrical infrastructure out of service from a couple of months to a year or more. Loss of income, for ordinary families, is a primary hazard of a long power outage. Business continuity of industry and other critical infrastructures (CI) is important in this scenario, but it is a significant challenge for small businesses and enterprises as well. This paper introduces ISO 31000 standard to such scenarios with the primary goal of achieving resilience of companies against such disaster as a new method of vial response to avoid scope of similar hazards.

The development and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), and in particular the Internet, have changed the way businesses operate in the last twenty years, providing a number of new opportunities for improving innovation and competitiveness. Today, modern ICT is considered to be the basis for the development of a knowledge society, in which the concept of e-government plays a special role. The main goal of this paper was to examine the perceptions of business users, in terms of perceived barriers and benefits achieved, from the use of electronic public administration services. The survey included 500 companies with the highest business income in Serbia. The data collected were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient, Mann Whitney’s test and Kruskal-Wallis test. The results of the research showed that the level of acceptance of electronic services is still lower than expected, given the volume of services offered. Also, this study pointed to the need to raise the level of awareness of businesses about e-government services, as well as the need to improve the quality of electronic services, in terms of complete digitization, alignment with enterprise requirements and regular updating of data.

Today’s global, knowledge-based society and economy need creative thinkers in all fields: engineering, medicine, arts, entrepreneurship and education. Educational institutions are tasked with finding new ways of encouraging students to become creative both as individuals and groups. Still, motivation and creativity are only a few of the primary educational goals. They are ambiguous by nature, theoretical, and hard to implement in the real world. Nevertheless, it is a common belief that creativity is an important trait that students should possess in order to face the quickly evolving world. The purpose of this study is to examine the related published works on games, software, imagination, education and creativity. We seek to gather useful information that would both draw attention to this problem and how Open-Source Software (OSS), as a model, can drive students’ creativity.

Nowadays the IT market is enriched with free Open Source Web Content Systems offers that are available to all users. No system is perfect, and some of them have better solutions in one segment but are more vulnerable in others and vice versa, all in order to be more user-friendly. The most common form of Content Management System (CMS) implemented on the Internet today is the Web Content Management System(WCMS). This solution includes numerous advantages for site administrators as well as communication with the site designer for all users in order to improve the content, through written remarks, opinions and evaluations of the site content, resulting in a more dynamic and interactive site. This modern approach offers users with a poor IT background the opportunity to be independent and creative in creating their own website. In this paper we present data collected from several websites monitored for various cyber-attacks. Moreover, we will describe and analyze security challenges that follow cyber-attacks. During the monitoring process we followed 15 web addresses over a period of nine months and collected 520 reports of various cyber-attacks. The following analysis presents the different kinds of attacks, their frequency and some of the ways to reduce cyber-attacks to the lowest possible level.

Početkom dvadeset prvog veka informaciona tehnologija je postala nezaobilazan elemenat obrazovanja. Jedan od glavnih problema je u tom periodu bila nabavka opreme i implementacija informacionih tehnologija u savremeno obrazovanje. Velike mogućnosti koje ove tehnologije pružaju nedovoljno su iskorišćene u mnogim zemljama u razvoju, a jedan od glavnih razloga je bila nedovoljna opremljenost tehničkom opremom škola, ali i slaba obučenost nastavnika za njihovu primenu. Velika većina softvera koje škole koriste spadaju pod vlasnički softver (komercijalni softver), koji te proizvode naplaćuju po visokim cenama. Cilj ovog istraživanja je da predstavi nova težišta za istraživanja u oblasti informacionih sistema i obrazovanja, posebno da se skrene pažnja na mogućnosti i uticaj Open Source softvera. Ova tema je veoma aktuelna u stručnim krugovima, od kad je grad Minhen odlučio da pređe na Open Source softvere kako bi uštedeo znatnu količinu novaca. Vođeni ovim primerom neke od zemalja Evropske Unije razmatraju prelazak njihovih računarskih sistema na softvere otvorenog koda, ali isto tako ima i onih koje su već napravile prve korake u ovom pravcu. Sagledavanje ove teme je potrebno uraditi iz više uglova kao što su: ekonomski, računarski, pedagoški, sociološki, kulturološki, pravni aspekti i sl. U radu su urađena poređenja između Microsoft Windows i GNU/Linux operativnih sistema oko kojih u svetu informatike postoje dugotrajne diskusije o njihovoj primenjivosti i superiornosti. Isto tako se proučavaju tehnološke konkurentnosti između Open Source kôda i vlasničkog softvera uzimajući u obzir i njihove filozofije nastanka i razvoja. U dokazivanju primenjivosti ovih sistema na istom hardveru kao kod konkurenata uradili smo testove koji ukazuju na mogućnosti oba sistema na istim hardverskim arhitekturama.