Mihailo Jovanović heads the Ministry of Information and Telecommunications, which was separated from the Ministry of Culture.
A new face in Ana Brnabić's third Government, Assistant Professor Mihailo Jovanović, Ph.D., graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade, as "one of the best students of the generation", as stated on the website of the Government of Serbia. He is a doctor of economic sciences and an assistant professor for the narrower scientific field of quantitative methods. He has 20 years of professional experience in Telecom and Post of Serbia, where for the last 14 years he has been on the board of directors responsible for information technology, electronic communications and development. In the period from 2014 to 2016, as a member and coordinator of the Executive Board of the Post of Serbia, he contributed to achieving "the best business result in the history of the Post". Since April 2017, he has been working as an advisor for electronic administration in the Office of the Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister's man
NUNS president Željko Bodrožić expressed his doubts about the Government's decision to appoint Jovanović as the person in charge of information for the portal of the weekly "Vreme". "Here, it is obvious that he is more in charge of telecommunications, and it seems to me that the Prime Minister's office has completely taken over the field of information." "As far as I can see, he is the Prime Minister's man, she also appointed him as the director of e-Administration," says Bodrožić.
He thought that the head of the Ministry of Information would be appointed by someone who had evolved into the journalistic profession, because information was separated from the Ministry of Culture and because in the last three or four years there has been a dual power in the media field, because media strategy and harmonization of Serbian of laws and mechanisms with the European ones, the Prime Minister's cabinet worked more, and not very successfully.
"We still haven't heard concretely what Mihailo Jovanović thinks, what he plans and how familiar he is with the problems in our area and how he thinks he will solve them." On the basis of his expertise, it would be said that information will remain in limbo and that we can once again wait for one of those people who are responsible for our area to first familiarize themselves with the situation, so while they digest all that we have on the agenda, and there is a delay in any case, a year can pass, that's why it's all strange to me".
Award winning engineer
Jovanović is a member of the Serbian Chamber of Engineers with licenses as a responsible designer and responsible contractor of telecommunication networks and systems. In 2002, he received an award from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Development of the Government of the Republic of Serbia.
In addition to the design, development and implementation of a completely new postal technology-information system and the construction of regional postal-logistics centers in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Niš, some of Jovanović's references in the field of electronic administration are: the establishment of the first qualified certification bodies for issuing qualified electronic certificates and time of trademarks in the Republic of Serbia, establishment of a central system of electronic registers, as well as projects "Baby, welcome to the world", registration of citizens for free actions and trading of securities from values, registration of citizens in the process of submitting a request for restitution and technical-technological support to citizens in the process of digitizing TV signals.
He comes from a family of famous Serbian doctors. He proudly points out his wife and two sons.
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