structural funds for regional ict: reality and future programming period 2014 -2020
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“ONE” Project Conference, Brussels – April 24, 2014TRANSCRIPT
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Structural Funds for regional ICT:
Reality and future programming period 2014 -2020
“ONE” Project Conference, Brussels – April 24, 2014
Luigi Reggi
Department for Economic Development and Cohesion
@luigireggi
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• Current financial support of Structural Funds to ICT policies
• Regional strategies for ICT • 2014-2020 new programming period
• Open Data on EU Regional Policy
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Agenda
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• 1994-1999 > Regional Information Society Initiative (RISI)
• 2000-2006 > 5.5 billion € (Source:Vincente and Lopez, 2011)
• 2007-2013 > 15.3 billion € (Year 2010. Source: Reggi &
Scicchitano based on EU Commission data. 14.6 billion in 2013. Source: EU Commission]
• 2014-2020 > Maybe higher?
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Financial support of Cohesion Policy to ICT policies
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What we buy with Structural Funds in the current period 2007-13
Broadband networks
15%
Information and communication technologies
(interoperability, security, etc.)
27% Services and applications for
citizens 34%
Services and applications for
SMEs 14%
Other measures for improving use of ICT by
SMEs 10%
Source: Reggi & Scicchitano, Are EU regional digital strategies evidence-based? An analysis of the allocation of 2007–13 Structural Funds. Telecommunications Policy, 2014 (in press).
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…and where we buy it
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FI
GR
COOP DK
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FR
LV
ND UK CK
SL
LT
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PT
MA
HU
LU
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RM
EE
AT
DE
BG
BE
Milion
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IS -‐ Absolute values IS -‐ % of Total Structural Funds
3,714
Allocation of 2007-13 Structural Funds to ICT development (categories of expenditure 10-15)
Source: Reggi & Scicchitano, Are EU regional digital strategies evidence-based? An analysis of the allocation of 2007–13 Structural Funds. Telecommunications Policy, 2014 (in press).
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Allocation of 2007-13 Structural Funds to ICT development (categories of expenditure 10-15)
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Regional Strategies for ICT development
Regional planning for ICT should be guided by effective Regional “digital strategies”:
1. consistent with the EU policy framework (Digital Agenda for Europe)
2. place-based, i.e. based on available evidence on the characteristics of local contexts in terms of IS development (Barca, 2009; Tsipouri, 2002) ⇒ based on available regional indicators!
3. comprehensive and balanced
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Telecommunication infrastructures vs.
eServices development
Supply vs. Demand of ICT
• improve Internet penetration • use of ICT services and
applications in households businesses and public administrations
• digital inclusion • citizen empowerment • …
• eServices provision • availability of equipment,
infrastructures and applications
• ICT professionals/practicioners
• …
A balanced approach
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-3.0 -1.5 0 1.5
-1.5
0
1.5
3.0
broadband
Dimension 1 - 36.90 %
CLUSTER 2
CLUSTER 3
SME2
SME1
ICT
e-Services
CLUSTER 1
Dimension 2 - 27.21 %
Regional Strategies for ICT development: 2007-13 allocations (CONV objective)
Cluster 1 = eServices provision (“back office”)
Cluster 2 = Public eServices (“front office”)
Cluster 3 = ICT in SMEs + Broadband
Source: Reggi & Scicchitano, Are EU regional digital strategies evidence-based? An analysis of the allocation of 2007–13 Structural Funds. Telecommunications Policy, 2014 (in press).
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• Reggi & Schicchitano (2014) have compared the financial allocations in CONV regions (made in 2006 for the 2007-13 period) with the available indicators at the regional level (Eurostsat, 2006): • Households with broadband access • Households with access to the Internet • Individuals who ordered goods or services over the
Internet for private use • Individuals using the Internet for interaction with public
authorities • Enterprises who have ERP software package to share
information on sales/purchases with other internal functional areas
• Control variables:
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita • Number of local units • Number of employees in local units • Total intramural R&D expenditure in the higher education sector • Rate of unemployment
2007-13 Regional ICT strategies …maybe not so evidence-based & balanced? :(
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2007-13 Regional ICT strategies …maybe not so evidence-based & balanced? :(
• EU Regions investing in public eServices development (both “front” and “back office”, clusters 1&2) => significantly higher levels of uptake of public eServices (“Individuals using the Internet for interaction with public authorities”)
• Regions investing in broadband + ICT in SMSs (cluster 3) => significantly higher values of ICT diffusion in SMEs (“Enterprises with ERP software”) and of Broadband penetration (“Households with broadband connection”)
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2007-13 Regional ICT strategies …maybe not so evidence-based & balanced? :(
Regions seek to further improve their strengths rather than focus on the weaknesses that emerge from the regional ICT context - WHY? -
- Inadequate analysis of local context (qualitative vs. quantitative analysis, shortage of regional data)
- Path dependence (e.g. multiannual plans on large telecomm infrastructures)
- Automatic decommission rule of Structural Funds “N+2” (concentrating resources on on-going projects that ensure immediate spending)
- …?
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ICT policy in 2014-2020 Programming Period
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1. Research & innovation 2. Information and communication technologies (ICT) 3. Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
(SMEs) 4. Shift towards a low-carbon economy 5. Climate change adaptation & risk prevention and
management 6. Environmental protection & resource efficiency 7. Sustainable transport & removing bottlenecks in key
network infrastructures 8. Employment & supporting labour mobility 9. Social inclusion & combating poverty 10. Education, skills & lifelong learning 11. Institutional capacity building & efficient public
administrations
Thematic objectives
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Research & innovation + Digital Agenda
Energy efficiency & renewable energy Competitiveness of SMEs
ERDF Thematic concentration
€100 billion
Less developed regions More developed regions
80%
20%
50%
Transition = 60%
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ERDF Investment priorities
Enhancing access to, and use and quality of, ICT by: (a) extending broadband deployment and the roll-out of
high-speed networks and supporting the adoption of emerging technologies and networks for the digital economy;
(b) developing ICT products and services, e-commerce, and enhancing demand for ICT;
(c) strengthening ICT applications for e-government, e-learning, e-inclusion, e-culture and e-health;
Art. 5 Reg 1301/2013
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A strategic policy framework for digital growth, for instance, within the national or regional smart specialisation strategy is in place that contains: • budgeting and prioritisation of actions through a SWOT
or similar analysis consistent with the Scoreboard of the Digital Agenda for Europe;
• an analysis of balancing support for demand and supply of ICT should have been conducted;
• indicators to measure progress of interventions in areas such as digital literacy, e-inclusion, e-accessibility, and progress of e-health within the limits of Article 168 TFEU which are aligned, where appropriate, with existing relevant sectoral Union, national or regional strategies;
• assessment of needs to reinforce ICT capacity-building.
Ex-ante conditionalities: 2.1 Strategic policy Framework for Digital growth
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Ex-ante conditionalities: 2.2 NGA Plan
A national Next-Generation Access (NGA) Plan is in place that contains: • a plan of infrastructure investments based on an
economic analysis taking account of existing private and public infrastructures and planned investments;
• sustainable investment models that enhance competition and provide access to open, affordable, quality and future-proof infrastructure and services;
• measures to stimulate private investment.
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Open data on EU Regional Policy
FORMAT: machine readable (XML, CSV…) ACCESSIBILITY: data accessible from a national portal LICENCE CONTENT: • beneficiary name (only of legal entities; no natural persons shall be named); • operation name; • operation summary; • operation start date; • operation end date (expected date for physical completion or full implementation
of the operation); • total eligible expenditure allocated to the operation; • Union co-financing rate, as per priority axis; • operation postcode; or other appropriate location indicator; • country; • name of category of intervention for the operation in accordance with point (b) (vi)
of the first subparagraph of Article 96(2); • date of last update of the list of operations. • The headings of the data fields shall be also provided in at least one other official
language of the Union.
New rules within the Information & Publicity Chapter
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Open data on EU Regional Policy
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Level of compliance to 2014-2020 rules on data publication of current Operational Programmes (December 2013, preliminary data)
Source: Study on Open Data & Structural Funds (ODSF), OpenCoesione team, 2014.
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100%
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CZ
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LT
HU
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SK
DK
SE
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Med
ia UE AT
UK PT
FR
IE
EE
LV
MT
RO
SI
IT
LU
BE
DE
CY
ES
2011 2013
EU AVERAGE 2013
Open data on EU Regional Policy
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Open data on EU Regional Policy in ITALY
www.opencoesione.it
www.ascuoladiopencoesione.it
www.monithon.it
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23 Thank you! @luigireggi
Word cloud of 2014-2020 General Regulation Proposal