COO at Latvian Communications and Information Technologies Association (LIKTA) - Rīga, Rīgas pilsēta, Latvia
The Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association - LIKTA - is a professional association, founded in 1998, that regroups over 80 important ICTE product and service providers and educational institutions, as well as about 100 individual professional members of the ICTE industry sector in Latvia, namely in computer hardware and software, electronics, and telecommunications infrastructure and service providers.LIKTA is a non-governmental, democratic organisation, respecting and balancing the rights of its corporate members and its individual members. All decisions are consensus based.Latvia wholly endorses the objectives of e-Europe and intends to become a full partner of the knowledge based global economy. It has elaborated its own e-Latvia strategy as well as an e-government model. Crucial prerequisites for this mission are a knowledgeable, ICT literate population and a well developed ICTE industry. Latvia has the advantage of having a fully literate population and a tradition of excellence in mathematics, science and engineering.