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About Multisoft

Multisoft is a trailblazer in electronic publishing, and presently it leads the market as the top publisher of digital encyclopedias and educational software in Serbia. With access to hundreds of our multimedia programs, users can experience the following benefits:

• Children aged 3-7 learn to read and write in Serbian or foreign languages through game-based learning.
• Young elementary students take their first steps into natural and social sciences.
• Older students receive high-quality teaching aids.
• Professors gain modern multimedia tools for work.
• Together, with older users eager to learn, everyone can enjoy our great multimedia encyclopedias suitable for the age of informatics!

Each of these programs, which is the result of several months of work (from 5 to 19 months) of programmers, professors and artists, has single-user (home) and several multi-user (school) versions that are updated and modernized almost every other year.

For more than 20 (twenty) years of working in this field (400,000 working hours!!), Multisoft has received the highest awards in Serbia. However, our multipurpose "My Book Machine" program received the greatest prize - The Best Educational Tool at the Didacta Fair (Hanover, 2015).

Since one of our programs is proclaimed the best in the country almost each year, then it is clear why our experts taught students, teachers and librarians at a large number of seminars, participated at international conferences (Budapest, Bratislava, Skopje), have stands at more than 10 international fairs, and Multisoft's Ce Ce Bukvar "represented our country in the field of education and entertainment at the First World Summit of Information Society (United Nations, 2003-2005).

Before the rise of social media, YouTube, Wikipedia, and other online platforms in 2006, Multisoft created digital encyclopedias that contained over 9,500 text pages, 43,000 illustrations, 7,000 minutes of audio, and 500 minutes of video. We recorded over 19,000 sound files with actors, developed over 11,000 quiz questions, and created about 500 animations and simulations. All of these were packaged into the best multimedia editions!

In 2008, we had accredited seminars for educators "To make each classroom multimedia" in which we summarize all our experience in working with children and educators. Several months later, this course was completed online by more than 700 professors (3 years ahead of the Ministry of Education's plan).

Since 2009, we have been developing programs for lecturers abroad, mostly in German, without forgetting that we do the same programs in the Serbian language as well. The work of cooperation with foreign partners is "My Book Machine", "Digital Folders" and "MasterTool", hardware solutions for "ordinary" and "digital" classrooms ("Portable IT Kits" etc.) as well as our complete functional versions of Word, Excell and PowerPoint (much cheaper than the original ones).

We have to boast of the fact that for the past two decades, we have been informatics literacy promoters: we have donated tens of thousands of programs, hundreds of courses, dozens of free lectures, we produced and managed computer shows on local TV and radio, donated the best students and blood donors, helped refugees and people with special needs.

In the spring of 2020, in the midst of a three-year crisis in which the government did not offer any support to our company, Multisoft once again demonstrated its social responsibility by allowing free use of our children's programs for a limited time period. Despite a lack of additional promotion, this initiative led to thousands of program downloads, totaling 33,000 copies valued at over $270,000.

We have never received support from any institution except the Open Society Fund (1997, 1999) and IRD/USAID (2002)! As pioneers in the fight against software piracy, we spent twice as much money on purchasing genuine software that we used for our entire company operations, than what we received from foreign donors.

After reading the reviews of our products (attached), you will be convinced that Multisoft has unparalleled experience in developing digital educational content in Serbia. If you take a closer look at our "My Book Machine Player", which comes in both online and offline versions for all operating systems and browsers, you will see that:

• We are proficient in multiple programming languages
• We have the capability to process high-quality multimedia and design
• We can program and customize products for all major operating systems, including Windows, iOS, and Android
• Our products are compatible with computers, tablets, and phones, regardless of whether they are stored on the cloud or locally.

We financed our educational projects by developing commercially viable software such as Accounting Software, HR Software, Specialized Software for Health Funds and Hospitals, Football Associations, District Cadasters and Geodetic Institutes, Factories, Data Acquisition from Analog and Digital Devices, Video Clubs, Driving Schools, Radio Stations, Bookmakers, Libraries, Domestic and Foreign NGOs, Bus Stations, and Schools.

For many years, we also provided computer courses (over 5000 participants), sold and maintained computers and computer networks.

Our Greatest Achievements

• "Užice nekad i sad" - Best CD-ROM in Yugoslavia (Yugoslav Informatics Alliance, 1997)
• "Ce De Bukvar" - Best Disc (International Book Fair in Belgrade, 1998)
• "Earth 2000" - Annual Prize for Popularization of Geographical Sciences (Serbian Geographical Society, 2000)
• 3 nominations for Serbian computer „Oscar“ (JISA)
• The greatest acknowledgments of all domestic IT journals
• Participation as guest lecturers at seminars, educational conferences, etc.
• Compliments at educational meetings, as well as in graduate studies at teaching faculties
• Participation at international books / education fairs (Belgrade from 1996-2008, Bratislava 2001, Skopje 2006, Didacta in Hannover, Stuttgart and Cologne from 2014-2018)
• Participating in the "Developing Interactive Media" conference organized by the European Commission (Budapest 2001)
• Since 2006, the partner of the German company co.Tec, (creation of educational programs and participating at the education fairs)
• The most productive (over 45 original and as many localized editions) with over 150,000 disks sold and even more satisfied users, but unfortunately, even more pirated (over 500,000 illegal copies before we introduced user registration) publisher of educational software in Serbia
• The first publisher of educational software that had a leased server in America and first who sold the educational products (some in foreign languages) via the Internet
• Multisoft with "Ce De Bukvar" program represented Serbia and Montenegro at the first World Summit of the Information Society organized by the United Nations (Geneva 2003 - Tunis 2005)
• For more than a decade, it has been working on the localization of foreign educational programs in the Serbian language (over 50 localized titles have been published in that period)
• Multisoft organized its own and from the Ministry of Education certified courses for educational workers, and a few years later (2008) it was the first in Serbia to publish online courses
• Multisoft has localized dozens of world-wide training programs for lecturers (tools for lectures, tests and control of networked computers originally made in Korea, N. Zealand, Germany and the United States) and has made several specific hardware solutions that also improve teaching (unfortunately, without reaction in our ministries and schools)
• In addition to the set of software tools ("Folders Creator" and "Projector Foils") that change classic graphs, as well as PowerPoint presentations, Multisoft digitized over 5,000 sheets (a set of "Digital Foils") originally made by German publishers Hagemann and co.Tec for German and Serbian markets.
• The only Serbian company that participated in the 21st century at the education fair - Didacta (Hannover, Stuttgart and Cologne)
• The European Society for Education and Communication (ESEC) awarded the "My Book Machine" project "The Erasmus EuroMedia" quality stamp for "excellent production of media that contribute to the development of positive values ​​of European society" (Vienna , 2014)

The European Society for Education and Communication (ESEC) and The EuroMedia Awards honour media productions focusing on the discourse of European Societies and the promotion of European Values.

• "My Book Machine Editor" was named the best educational tool at the education fair Didact a2015 in Hannover, Germany

Digita Awards Jury (Google-translated from German to Englsih): „The jury members are very pleased to be able to reward "MyBookMachine" as an important building block for the digital school. This tool allows publishing experiences of multimedia and interactive content designed a very strong impulse, because writers of all ages can apply the technical design means no big learning curve.

Even primary school children are able to use user-friendly tools for presenting their elaborations. Templates allow the combination of text, image, video, links and embedded interactions. The integrated editor-player authoring system allows verifing the state of development and the quality of a publication at any time during the manufacturing process.

For pedagogical reasons, the inclusion of sites with open or closed browser can be done, depending on whether the students have complete freedom of movement from the e-book out into the free Internet, or should be limited to safe websites. In a cloud, the self-created digital media are accessible next releases from other sources.

Quality of digital publication as travelogue, project presentation, cookbook or portfolio will depend of the media literacy of the users and users.

In the context in "MyBookMachine" incalculable prompts appear just very appropriate in terms of the target groups particularly addressed by this tool to observe the copyright laws in the manufacturing process.

The jury congratulates the "MyBookMachine" on winning the Digita 2015 and wishes the product the wide distribution it deserves.“

• The "Society for Pedagogy and Information" awarded the "My Book Machine" to the "Comenius EduMedia" quality stamp for "an outstanding product in the field of ICT supported educational media" (Berlin, 2015)

The Society for Pedagogy and Information or 'Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information' (GPI), a scientific society for multimedia, educational technology and media didactics, awards the annual Comenius-EduMedia-Awards to outstanding products in the field of ICT-supported educational media. The awards were founded in 1995 and with the Comenius-EduMedia-Awards GPI supports pedagogically, creatively and in content outstanding ICT-supported educational media.

• "My Book Machine Editor" has become an integral part of Intel's IER (Educational Resources) educational application for Germany in 2015/2016 (which has only 8 programs)
• In 2016, Multisoft made a contract with the German company co.Tec to create a new version of another Intel's recommended programs - "MasterTool" (we will finish it by the end of 2018).
• Since 2016, the German federal state of Hessen pays an annual license for "My Book Machine" (for all its schools and teachers).
• From 2017, over 60 German schools use the Multisoft application „My Textmachine Desktop Application“ (MyTextMachine, MySpreadSheet and MySlideMaster) as a fully functional but also a cheaper replacement for Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

More information in our attachments, demo programs, Youtube movies and websites