The Section of Electronics, Automation and Telecommunications Engineers (EAT) issued a press release in which it emphasized that Bosnia and Herzegovina is lagging behind in its digital development by all criteria and offered its help in order to at least try to connect with developed countries in Europe and the world.
“In the media, an analysis was published on the digital development of Bosnia and Herzegovina, or we would dare to say about the ‘digital lagging and (under)development of BiH’. What we have been mentioning and writing about for a long time has been established – Bosnia and Herzegovina lags behind in all criteria our digital development, and thus we are lagging behind in the basic foundation for the development of a modern economy and for attracting significant foreign investments,” EAT states.
As they add, their goal is not to criticize and return to the past, but to offer their help to start some things as soon as possible from a deadlock and to try to at least somewhat connect with developed countries in Europe and the world.
“Bosnia and Herzegovina needs an urgent digital strategy. It is not a document of hundreds or thousands of pages. It is a document of 50-60 pages, but a document in which the urgent activities that need to be implemented will be listed sequentially and in which it will be clearly written who needs to do what And that at all levels – from the state, through the entity to the local. A strategy in which each company will recognize what its tasks are and what is expected of it. Of course, the state and entities should provide such companies and organizations with relief. And all of that would be clear. stated in one such document,” the EAT emphasized.
As they state, “while the world is already working intensively on the standardization of 6G mobile networks (the commercialization of the first 6G mobile networks is expected sometime in 2029), we in Bosnia and Herzegovina expect to call for tenders for 5G licenses sometime in 2026 (and maybe or even more likely and after that year)”.
“There is definitely a claim that in the world of telecommunications and IT we are a decade behind and maybe more. Such a lag in the field of agronomy or tourism is huge, in telecommunications and IT it is catastrophic”, they stressed.
They invited everyone to start doing concrete things in the digitization of society in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“We offer you our help and expertise, because the time has never come like now to start listening to the voice of the profession,” they say from the Section of EAT Engineers.
