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The UNDERSTAND Project

The UNDERSTAND Project. Committee of the Regions Bruxelles, 22 Sept 2004. David Osimo - Regione Emilia-Romagna. The project. Rationale: huge investment on Information Society by regions, and the need to evaluate the impact of ICT investment in the regions

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The UNDERSTAND Project

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  1. The UNDERSTAND Project Committee of the Regions Bruxelles, 22 Sept 2004 David Osimo - Regione Emilia-Romagna The UNDERSTAND project

  2. The project • Rationale: huge investment on Information Society by regions, and the need to evaluate the impact of ICT investment in the regions • Total absence of comparable data on Information Society at the regional level, but many scattered regional initiatives (sub-optimal usage of resources). There will be no harmonised data on Information Society in EU regions - see Regulation (EC) 808/2004 • Emilia-Romagna with the support of ERIS@ launches cooperation in early 2003; by Sept 2003 10 partner regions from 7 EU countries get together in the UNDERSTAND project to agree common indicators, collect data and involve many more regions in validating and using them. • Benchmarking benefits from network economies: the more regions use the indicators, the more value benchmarking delivers. • EC co-funding via Interreg IIIc, project lasting from Feb 2004 to July 2006 • Main outputs: benchmarking tool-kit (common methodology and questionnaire); data from surveys; web DB for inter-regional benchmarking. • 4 domains: Internet usage by citizens; e-business; e-government; broadband infrastructure. The UNDERSTAND project

  3. The partner regions Norrland Yorkshire and Humber Wales Wielkopolska Aquitaine Baleares Hessen Emilia-Romagna Valencia Piemonte And a further formalised cooperation with ERIS@ and Italian Network of Regional Competence Centres The UNDERSTAND project

  4. Output: WHAT WE OFFER • Common methodologies (toolkit): available now! • Benchmarking database – Jan 2004 • Benchmarking data – Jan 2004 All products are freely available to EU regions Interactivity of environment-related permits in Europe 100% 80% 60% 40% 20% 0% IRL DK B E FIN L P NOR F ISL UK S CH E.R. A EL NL D I The UNDERSTAND project

  5. How can other regions be involved: WHAT WE ASK • By providing feedback to improve indicators and methodologies – before 31th Dec. 2004 • By using the methodologies to carry out surveys in other regions – any time • By inputing their collected data and comparing with other regions in the on-line database – any time Dissemination and external validation are key to the development of shared indicators. UNDERSTAND will send the full methodology to regions requesting it, together with a feedback form to assess the quality of the methodology. The UNDERSTAND project

  6. Thank you! To obtain the complete methodology, and for further information: www.understand-eu.net dosimo@regione.emilia-romagna.it The UNDERSTAND project

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