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Vision • Vision: the world is changing, rapidly, into a Global Networked Knowledge Society (GNKS). Understanding this is crucial for policy makers and strategists, as their aim is to take decisions that will impact the future. In order to better understand in what ways that future might develop and how to develop policies and strategies with sustainable impact, insight in the concepts underlying GNKS is key. • Mission: Inform policy makers and strategists by addressing specific challenges building on the insights that come with the understanding of GNKS • Why work with GNKS Consult: • Build on excellence in understanding the issues GNKS • Have a home market in DG INFSO that allows further development of that excellence
GNKS: • Global • Location of production and markets • Access to information and communication • Networked • Social and economic networks • Communication networks • Knowledge • Increasing amount of information on line • Growing ability to access and process it • Society • It’s all about people, stupid! • Sustainability from social, economic and environmental perspective
The organisation • GNKS Consult is an independent private company, registered under number 24396166 at the Rotterdam Chamber of Commerce since May 2006 • GNKS is conducting research and consultancy on its own, and in partnership with appropriate partners, depending on the challenge. It has partnership arrangements with the Danish Technology Institute (Aarhus, DK) and RAND Europe (Cambridge, UK) • GNKS brings together a set of world class associated policy researchers, including those explicitly listed on the website
Core competences • Technology impact assessment, including foresight, scenario based analysis, etc • IS policy preparation through foresight, ex ante and ex post evaluation • Information Security: Trust, privacy, identity, CIP • eInclusion • eGovernment • Sustainable development • Global governance issues
The networks • GNKS has clients in Brussels, UK and the Netherlands • GNKS has access to client- and research networks in Europe and the United States • GNKS has experience with Information Society policy work in Europe, USA and the Middle East