USE OF COMPUTERS AND INTERNET IN CROATIA

ZAGREB, Nov 4 (Hina) - About 450,000 personal computers are in use in Croatia at the moment. Every year, about 54,000 computers are imported and sold in Croatia and about 4 percent of the population has Internet access, director of Microsoft Croatia Goran Radman said at a seminar called "How to Conduct Business Activities on the Internet", Tuesday. In countries in transition, similar to Croatia, the percentage of the Internet use is significantly greater. For instance, in Hungary and Romania about 20 percent of the population is using the Internet. While there are four Internet providers in Croatia, 24 Internet providers are active in Albania and 37 in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Aiming at the demonstration of the power of the information industry, Radman compared Microsoft's annual income, which amounts to US$24 billion, to last year's Gross National Product (GNP) in Croatia, amounting to US$20 billion. This means that a Microsoft employee is 50 times more productive than a Croatian worker, Radman said and expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that the Croatian Economy Ministry failed to establish a sector for software activities. (hina) it