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Digital Agenda for EuropePARADIGMA, Venice, April 15, 2013

Europe’s dilemmas

Low growth, slowing productivity

Current account and budget imbalances

Aging populationsSlow integration and flagging social cohesion

Background to the Digital Agenda for Europe

Flagship Initiatives of Europe 2020

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020/europe-2020-in-a-nutshell/flagship-initiatives/index_en.htm

• Digital Agenda for Europe• Innovation Union• Youth on the move• Resource efficient Europe• Industrial policy for the

globalization era• An agenda for new skills and jobs• European platform against poverty

The essence of the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE)

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/digital-agenda-europe

Launched in May 2010, the DAE contains 101 actions, grouped around seven priority areas.

Contains 13 specific goals which encapsulate the envisioned digital transformation

Progress against these targets is measured in the annual Digital Agenda Scoreboard.

DG CONNECT (VP Neelie Kroes) is responsible for the Digital Agenda.

A strategy to create a common digital market in Europe

„In order to exploit fully the potential of the new information and communication technologies, changes are needed in the way enterprises operate. Investments in organisational change may have been insufficient as enterprises may not have fully recognised their importance, or because of the high costs of organisational reform, often significantly exceeding the costs of acquiring ICT capital goods.‟

The potential and promise of ICT

Source: CEC, European Competitiveness Report 2003, SEC(2003)1299, p. 9.

• Digital economy is growing at seven times the rate of the rest of the economy

• Implementation of the Digital Agenda would increase European GDP by 5%, or 1500 € per person, over the next eight years

• 1.2 million jobs could be created through infrastructure construction. This would rise to 3.8 million new jobs throughout the economy in the long term.

• Up to 1 million digital jobs risk going unfilled by 2015 without pan-European action

Seven priority areas of the Digital Agenda for Europe

• Digital Single Market• Interoperability & Standards• Trust & Security• Fast and ultra-fast Internet access• Research and innovation• Enhancing digital literacy, skills

and inclusion• ICT-enabled benefits for EU

society

Goals of the Digital Agenda for Europe

the entire EU to be covered by broadband by 2013.

the entire EU to be covered by broadband above 30Mbps by 2020

50 % of the EU to subscribe to broadband above100 Mbps by 2020

50 % of the population to buy online by 2015

20 % of the population to buy online cross-border by 2015

33 % of SMEs to make online sales by 2015

the difference between roaming and national tariffs to approach zero by 2015

to increase regular internet usage from 60 % to 75 % by 2015, and from 41 % to 60 % among disadvantaged people.

to halve the proportion of the population that has never used the internet from 30 % to 15 % by 2015

50 % of citizens to use eGovernment by 2015, with more than half returning completed forms

all key cross-border public services to be available online by 2015

to double public investment in ICT R&D to € 11bn by 2020

to reduce energy use of lighting by 20% by 2020

Digital Agenda Scoreboard

Source: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/scoreboard

Room for improvement …

ICT POLICY SUPPORT PROGRAMME

Connecting Europe Facility

EU’s Seventh Framework Programme

€ 730 million earmarked for innovations that have moved beyond the final research demonstration phase

2013 focus: cloud of public

services, smart cities, open data, ICT for health, trusted eServices

€ 9,200 million for broadband and pan European e-services

Focus on eID, eProcurement, eHealth, eJustice

Expected to stimulate investments exceeding €50bn. Annual savings through eProcurement (€100bn), €250 bn through cloud computing

€ 9,100 million for funding of cooperative research (largest share)

Strengthen Europe’s scientific and technology base and ensure its global leadership in ICT

Drive and stimulate product, service and process innovation

Instruments & funding programs

Most programs have been setup for the period 2007-2013

RESEARCH MARKET INTRODUCTION INVESTMENT

EU’s Seventh Framework Programme

FP7 Cooperation Funds and ICT Challenges

Source: ICT – Information and communication technologies Work programme 2013

Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures

Cognitive Systems and RoboticsAlternative Paths to Components and Systems

Technologies for Digital Content and Languages

ICT for Health, Ageing, Inclusion and Governance

ICT for low carbon economyICT for the Enterprise and ManufacturingICT for Creativity and LearningFuture and Emerging Technologies (FET)

ICT Policy Support Program

Economically and socially sensitive areas

Market introduction of ICT innovations

Adressing the following issues

Health, ageing and social inclusion

Energy efficiency Sustainable mobility Culture preservation and

learning Efficient public

administration

Obstacles that hinder further use of ICT based services

Barriers for the development of high growth businesses

Slow uptake of ICT innovations in the public sector

Fragmentation due to a lack of interoperability between ICT solutions

The last call of the CIP ICT PSP program is now open (May 14, 2013)

ICT – ISP funded project – new valued added services

Source: Graham Vickery, Terttu Luukkonen, Slavo Radosevic, Robbert Fisher, “CIP ICT PSP Second Interim Evaluation”, 2011

Skewed participation Considerable scope for improving the effectiveness of individual projects

Improvements needed in terms of meeting stated objectives and impacts

What is the future of DA? Digital Priorities 2013 - 2014

Create a new and stable broadband regulatory environment. New Broadband State Aid Guidelines and “Connecting Europe Facility” loans.

Grand Coalition on Digital Skills and Jobs: agree standard job profiles and promote skill certification to help job mobility

Propose EU cyber-security strategy and Directive: … online platform to prevent cross-border cyber incidents, and incident reporting requirements

Update EU's Copyright Framework:

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New public digital service infrastructures: Roll out of digital services, cross border interoperability (eID’s, eSignatures)

Accelerate cloud computing through public sector buying power : pilot actions “European Cloud Partnership” to create a cloud enabled IT market 6

Launch new electronics industrial strategy: focus on micro- and nano-electronics to attract investment 7

ICT funding in Horizon 2020 – riskier ICT research topics

Source: ICT – Information and communication technologies Work programme 2013

A new generation of components and systems including nano-electronics and photonics technologies, components and embedded systems engineering.

Next generation computing, advanced computing systems and technologies.

Infrastructures, technologies and services for the future Internet.

Content technologies and information management, including ICT for digital content and creativity.

Advanced interfaces, Robotics and smart spaces

EU investments in ICTs are due to increase by 46% under Horizon 2020 compared to the current EU research programs (FP7)

Digital Agenda & GSE members ?

Leverage the Digital Agenda instruments

Participate in research & development programs to keep abreast of technological changes

Consider available funding in the prioritization of own projects Open Data Initiatives Smart Computing IT Services in the Cloud

Actively contribute to the consultation processes of the EC

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