Guidelines for paper: • Overview and key general facts (about SMEs) – about 3 pages - (What are SMEs? Role of the SMEs in the economy? Technology and SMEs?). • Overview and key characteristics of technologies suitable to SMEs – about 3 pages: You should not list technology facts, but rather focus on capabilities and suitability of these technologies to the growth and operations of a small business organization. • Identify examples (from any industry) of IT use by SMEs: about 4 pages – Discover, research and present at least 2 examples of successful technology (secutrity application ) adoption by small and medium businesses (as identified through your review of reliable references or primary contact / interviews with the organizations). • Identify and analyze key legal, business, or customer-related issues that may increase or slow the adoption of IT in SMEs, also in the context of the global IT industry and economy - about 3 pages – support your arguments / statements with data and facts and link to this analysis to your earlier discussion about key technologies. • Conclusions – about 2 pages – summarize key points and provides recommendations / perspectives. • References (not in the page count): acknowledge each reference used. • Appendices (not in the page count): you can use the appendices for maps, charts, diagrams and any other relevant materials that you have referenced in the paper.