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INTERVIEW

In Canada for ten years    many islands, we used a combination       our logic is that every employee may
we apply a combination     of 3G and satellite modems to send        propose an investment project. This is
of voting at the polling   the results from the polling places to    followed by a sequence of procedures,
place by voting through    the central location for processing of    research, preparation of prototypes,
the Internet or by         votes. Overall, the project was suc-      until an idea is transferred to the reg-
phone. In USA there are    cessful, however a lot of logistics was   ular development process or until it is
frequent combinations      required. We conduct the elections in     rejected.
of voting by mail, at      Mongolia since 2012, on several occa-
the polling places, and    sions. The next elections are in June        One should have in mind that to-
lately also through the    this year when our technology will be     day it is not enough to innovate only
Internet for the citizens  used again. In this case we have sig-     in the field of development of applica-
who are not in the         nificantly less voters with the right to  tions or electronics. It takes products
country at the moment      vote, however the greatest challenge is   that are easy to use, and we make it so
of voting. In order to     the size of Mongolia The fact that the    important for a simple reason that the
achieve greater turnout,   elections in Mongolia have been orga-     voting machines use all structures of
the voting lasts several   nized several times with the applica-     citizens. Simply everyone has the right
days                       tion of our technology, speaks in favor   to vote. Therefore we have a special
                           of the trust that a young democracy       group within the company that deals
                           such as Mongolia gained in our prod-      with the experiences of the voters and
                           ucts, technology, as well as in the ad-   which performs researches on the ba-
                           ditional services that we provide.        sis of prototypes and determines how
                                                                     easy it is to use something.

                                 What is important in this entire           What is specifically the work of
                           story is that the latest technology is    your company’s office in Belgrade?
                           being used. This requires innovations.
                           How much do you invest in the re-            Mr. Obradovic: Belgrade’s office of
                           quired research?                          Dominion Voting exists since January
                                                                     2005. At the beginning we gathered a
                              Mr. Obradovic: I think that today      small team of engineers for develop-
                           everyone understands that sustain-        ment of applications. Today it is a team
                           able progress is not possible without     of 50 engineers that work on the devel-
                           investments in innovations and ef-        opment of new products. The products
                           ficient processes. Our development        such as Democracy Suit Election Man-
                           team comprises of more than 25% of        agement System, ImageCast Evolution
                           the total number of employees in the      and ImageCast X are completely devel-
                           company. We have three development        oped in Belgrade.
                           centers, Toronto, Denver and Belgrade.
                           We are the only company in this sec-         In Belgrade, same as in the region,
                           tor that has its own team for develop-    it was not difficult to find quality ex-
                           ment of voting devices, and not only      perts. Some of them now work for
                           for applications and for software. The    our company in Toronto. Considering
                           other companies engage other firms        the distance from our target markets,
                           that perform development of electron-     sometimes it was difficult to realize
                           ics, mechanics and embedded software      some of the specific demands of the
                           for their needs. In this manner, our      market or the process of certification
                           investments in innovations are im-        of the devices for special markets.
                           portant, however this leads to a better   Still, by sending people from here to
                           price of the final products, as well as   attend trainings, or by bringing here
                           better quality control. Within the com-   our employees from USA and Canada
                           pany we have a special working group      we have always managed to overcome
                           that will deal with analysis and moni-    the distance problem, the time zones
                           toring of the implementation of the       and the non-familiarization of a spe-
                           innovations in the company. Namely,       cific field such as the voting.

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