A summary of the Information and Communication Technologies Industry of Belgium. Presentation held by Mr. Jan DEPREST, within the first session of the FORUM „INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN GOVERNMENT”, dedicated to interoperability, held at Chisinau, January 16th 2012.
Unblocking The Main Thread Solving ANRs and Frozen Frames
BELGIUM and its ICT Industry
1. BELGIUM and its ICT Industry
Jan DEPREST
January 16th, 2012
Moldova
2. Denmark
UK
Ireland
Leeds
Dublin Liverpool The Netherlands
Den Hague Amsterdam
Cardiff London Rotterdam
Antwerp Germany
Belgium Cologne
Brussels Bonn
The economic power Frankfurt
Luxembourg
base of Europe:
Strasbourg
Stuttgart
the “Golden Banana”, Paris
Belgium is in the center. Bern
Switzerland
Milan
France
Italy
Rome
Spain Barcelona
3. Belgium at the heart of Europe
750 km
Belgium offers access to
€ 6 Tri GDP (67%)
the largest one-day-market 500 km
in Europe: main markets € 3,7 Tri GDP (42%)
can be served within 24 250 km
hours € 1,5 Tri GDP (17%)
54 Mio consumers (12%)
131 Mio consumers (29%)
236 Mio consumers (53%)
Total EU population:
Total EU GDP:
490 Mio
€ 12.00 trillion
Source: PricewaterhouseCoopers,
Report 2004
7. Major Industries
BFS
Automotive
Logistics
Industry is driving ICT
ICT is driving Industry Chemicals
and Plastics
Food
Life sciences
8. Broadband Country, advanced e-Gov
• Households: Belgium is a broadband country
– Two competing broadband technologies: ADSL
and cable
– Broadband: 55% of households connected
– PC: two third of households have PC @ home
• Companies: 99% of SMEs are Internet-connected
and use all sorts of ICT-applications
• Government: interesting e-gov building blocks:
– eID, database of entreprises and citizens,
platform using Social Security authentic
sources,…
10. The Belgian ICT-sector: employment
• Employment: 150 600 people
– about 3,4% of Belgian employment
• Information technology
IT-hardware, services & software:
– 85 500
• Development & production of ICT:
– 20 600
• Telecom-operators:
– 44 400
11. ICT expertise in Belgium
Research Centers and education system
• IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology)
– focus on: e-health | New media | Mobility | Image processing |
e-Government and enabling technologies
– Multi-disciplinary and demand driven research
– 600 highly skilled researchers
• IMEC (Interdisciplinary Micro-Electronics Center)
– Europe’s largest independent research center in nano-electronics
and nano-technology
– over 1,600 employees coming from all over the world
– research is applied in better healthcare, smart electronics,
sustainable energy, and safer transport
• University research centers: Leuven, Ghent, Brussels
• High quality education system
12. ICT Expertise in Belgium
excellence centers in companies
– Centers of excellence in companies: Alcatel-Lucent Bell,
Barco, Scientific Atlanta/Cisco, Agfa, LMS, Metris, Zetes,
Vasco Data Security, Philips, Option, Televic…
– Belgian ICT-sector = 4% of GDP, but 20% of all R&D-
efforts…
– Government support systems for company R&D
• Project support
• Fiscal measures
• 75 % of withholding tax not due for company employees
active in R&D
13. Belgium :
6 domains of expertise in ICT
1. Nano-electronics, nano-technologies & micro-electronics
2. Financial security solutions & smart card technology
3. Telematics, GPS, cartography & Location Based Services, Geo-ICT
4. Telecommunication & Network equipment
5. Digital audio-video products & digital printing
6. Software products
14. 1. Nano-electronics & Micro-Electronics
IMEC, AMI semiconductors, STMicroelectronics,
Tyco Electronics, …
• IMEC, a world-class micro-electronics research center with lots of
spin-offs
17. 3. Telematics, GPS, cartography,
Location Based Services, Geo-ICT,
road pricing, …
– Mercator, inventor of the cartography in 16th century, was
born in Flanders
– Septentrio, Punch Telematix, Transics, Tele Atlas (Tom
Tom), Luciad, Traficon, GIM (Geographic Information
Management),…
– ITS (Intelligent Traffic Systems) & Telematics Cluster
24. A few illustrations of succesful software
developers
• LMS “Virtual.Lab Desktop”
• Materialize “Magics”
• Metris “Camio Studio”
• Larian Studios “Superia”
25. Conclusion
• Belgium ICT expertise = IP and product, solution
driven
• Expertise in number of areas, build on in-depth
industry knowledge
• ICT as enabling technology
26.
27. Certipost, your partner in electronic and paper
document exchange, is a specialised and experienced
service provider enabling secure electronic data
interchange between companies, consumers and
government institutions.
Gert Roeckx
+ 32 53 60 11 11
info@certipost.com
www.certipost.com
28. COSIC is a research group with multi-disciplinary
researchers from all over the world who are
specialized in computer security and industrial
cryptography.
Danny Decock
decockd@esat.kuleuven.be
29. LIN.K nv is a Belgian privately owned leading provider
of technologies and services for:
– online user registration, identification, strong authentication
– digital signature/validation of data/transactions using smart
– cards, mobile (smart)phones, tokens and biometrics
Mario Houthooft
+ 32 9 252 28 47
info@lin-k.net
www.linkid.be
30. VASCO is a world leader in Strong Authentication and
Electronic and Digital Signature solutions, specializing
in online accounts, identities and transactions.
Bart Renard
+ 32 2 609 97 00
bart.renard@vasco.com
www.vasco.com
32. Zetes are an EMEA leading provider of identification
and mobility solutions. By utilising high-secure
identification, data capture and data communication
technologies they link people to their unique identity.
Sarah Dheedene
Ronny Depoortere
+ 32 475 58 14 20
ronny.depoortere@zetes.com
www.zetes.com/moldova
33. Jan DEPREST
Walter VAN ASSCHE
Frank LEYMAN
Sebastiaan De Brouwere