SoSIReČR - IT professional social network

This paper describes the concept of a social network of the ICT specialists in the regions of the Czech Republic. In particular, we focus on the web portal under development, i.e. a software tool serving for the network implementation. Associated activities concerning collecting and analyzing ICT requirements from companies and educational ICT knowledge of university graduates are presented. The novelty of our approach is in focusing on specificities of the social network (entities and relationships specific for ICT) and in the concept of professional profile (PP). Professional profiles enable to express the ICT focus of a given entity (e.g., person, research team or project) in a structured way. Based of the PP concept, we introduce specific portal functionalities which are not offered by existing portals.