Lithuania’s Ministry of Communications & Informatics is spending $3m on a unified development plan for its telecommunications and computer industries: according to the Wall Street Journal, the newly liberated country has already hired France’s Compagnie des Machines Bull SA as its main computer advisor and is hoping to work with a further four to five companies; the plan, co-ordinated by former Lithuanian computer science professor Gintautus Zintelis, could cost $600m to implement through the year 2000; it will involve modernising the telephone system with new cables and exchanges and computerising government records on a standard system; from the start, all the systems will be designed to work together.
