GSE Executive Conference - Venice

1. Digital Agenda for Europe
PARADIGMA, Venice, April 15, 2013

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Europe’s dilemmas
Low growth, slowing
productivity
Current account and
budget imbalances
Aging populations
Slow integration and
flagging social cohesion
Background to the Digital Agenda for Europe

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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

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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

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„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

6. Seven priority areas of the Digital Agenda for Europe
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• 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

7. 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
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 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

8. Digital Agenda Scoreboard
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Source: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/scoreboard

9. Digital Agenda Scoreboard
Page  9 Source: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/scoreboard

10. Room for improvement …
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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

12. EU’s Seventh Framework Programme
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13. FP7 Cooperation Funds and ICT Challenges
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Source: ICT – Information and communication technologies Work programme 2013
Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service
Infrastructures
Cognitive Systems and Robotics
Alternative Paths to Components and Systems
Technologies for Digital Content and Languages
ICT for Health, Ageing, Inclusion and Governance
ICT for low carbon economy
ICT for the Enterprise and Manufacturing
ICT for Creativity and Learning
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

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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)

15. ICT – ISP funded project – new valued added services
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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

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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 market6
Launch new electronics industrial strategy: focus on micro- and nano-
electronics to attract investment7

17. ICT funding in Horizon 2020 – riskier ICT research topics
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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)

18. Digital Agenda & GSE members ?
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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