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Page 1: Building a humanly sustainable knowledge society

building a humanly sustainable knowledge society

www.etampere.fi

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Information Society – Usability?

Information Society is not about technology or electronic gadgets.

Information Society is about learning, culture, science, government,health, business, entertainment and inclusion

Digital media is about – yes, business – but very deep about InfoSociety implementation

Credits: http://WWW.wsis-award.org/

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eTampere aims high

• The objective of the eTampere knowledge society programme is to make Tampere the spearhead city of information society development

• by strengthening the knowledge base• by creating new business • by developing new public online services that ease

the daily life of all citizens

Active citizens, innovative business

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1974 NMT phone call1978 bank automat1984 bioresorbable implant - Bionx1985 electro-mechanical film (EMFi)1988 micro-crystallized chitosan - Novasso1991 GSM phone call1993 analog Cellular Data Card - Nokia1994 GSM Data Card - Nokia1995 walking forest harvester - Timberjack1995 Internet call - Sonera1996 Personal Digital Assistant - Nokia Communicator1997 Data Suite - Nokia1997 GSM Card Phone1998 digital X-ray - Imix1999 WAP Server and WLAN – Nokia2001 Netti-Nysse Internet-buss2002 Internet Sauna2002 Finnish W3C Office2003 eTampere City Card

FIRST IN THE WORLD

Tampere, Finland

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eOrigins in the eEurope initiative

• bringing every citizen, home, school, enterprise and administrative body into the network environment

• creating a Europe of digital skills and entrepreneurial spirit

• ensuring that everyone has an opportunity to be part of the information society

The technology-oriented stage is over. Citizens want

information and applications that make their lives simpler

and better. Here and now, not just in the future.

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eTampere is a wide-reaching cooperative programme

• promoting cooperation between enterprise, research, education and the public sector so that the information society will become a natural part of everyday life for all citizens, without discrimination

Local, regional, national, international

PartnersCity of TampereUniversity of TampereTampere University ofTechnologyTampere TechnologyCentre LtdVTT

Partners in cooperationPolytechnics and othereducational establishmentsCentres of ExpertiseEnterprisesAssociationsSurrounding municipalitiesInternational partners

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ICT

TAMPERE INFOCOM (ICT- & MEDIA) CLUSTER

RESEARCH&EDUCATION

USERS

PublicservicesHospitals,Schools,

Administration,Others...

CompaniesIndustry,Banks,

Mobile office,Education, ...

HouseholdsBank Services,

Telework,Distance learning,

Information, Retrieval, ...

TUT Software Systems

TelecommunicationsSignal Processing

SemiconductorElectronics ...

TPU, PirPUMedia Production / -Art

Information Tech.Digit. / Multimedia ...

UTA Information Studies

HypermediaJournalism & Mass media

Computer Science...

PRODUCERS

HARDWARE & COMPONENTS

SOFTWARE

GENERAL SYSTEMS

DM

I, VR

C,

W3C

ISI, eBRC

VTT, RELab

TC of E

XPERTISE

eTam

pere

Progr

am

VTTAutomation

Information technology

TELECOMMUNICATION & MEDIA NETWORKS

MEDIA & NEW MEDIA

VAECT

OTHERS

SERVICES & COMMERCE

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The mode of operation• The programme is implemented by six independent subprogrammes, which cooperate with each other and various other players.

• The programme as a whole is coordinated and marketed by the eTampere office. The strategic vision and monitoring of activities are the responsibility of the steering group.• Policy-making for and monitoring of the practical work is carried out by the executive committee.

• A five-year programme for the years 2001-2005• Targeted total volume of projects 132 million euros• 20 % seed funding from the City of Tampere

• Technology engine programmes (TUT/Digital Media Institute)• Research & Evaluation Laboratory, RELab (VTT)• eBusiness Research Center, eBRC (TUT, UTA)• eAccelerator (Tampere Technology Centre Ltd)• Information Society Institute, ISI (UTA)• Infocity (City of Tampere)

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Subprogrammes

Research & Evaluation Laboratory, RELab Produces easy-to-use services for everyday life and test environments for the production, development and evaluation of services.

Technology engine programmes Bring top expertise for the use of enterprises through high-quality research. Adaptive software components, User interfaces, Perception of information, Neoreality, Broadband data transfer

eBusiness Research Center, eBRC Produces research-based and practical expertise related to electronic business for the use of enterprises and the public sector, acts as a matchmaker for researchers, companies, organizations and financers.

eAccelerator Shoots companies with unique, high-technology-based ideas onto the international growth path. There are currently nine companies growing in the accelerator.

Information Society Institute, ISI Through multidisciplinary research, development and educational activities, forwards the building of an information society based on active citizenship and the development of its daily practices.

Infocity Makes Tampere a model city of information society by developing practical online services and by improving the citizens’ skills to use them.

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eTampere and the four dimensions of knowledge society

Technical Social

Economical

Cultural

eAccelerator

Technology engine programmes

RELab

Infocity

ISI

eBRC

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Areas of emphasis in 2003

Active, participating and influential citizenship• increasing opportunities for influence and participation• eTampere card• new possibilities for communal spirit and operation

Developing expertise and business development• eTampere business service• mobile technologies, services and content

Development of service innovations• Support for and development of service processes with information and communication

technologies• customer-oriented approach, active customership, multifarious productionship

More in-depth international cooperation• Sixth Framework Programme• St Petersburg cooperation

Concrete services that improve the productivity of public services and transfer technology innovations into services for citizens, implemented based on business logic.

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Achievements of eTampere• The programme advances according to plan (project portfolio 30.7 million euros,

realization rate 111.1 %)• The proportion of finance from enterprises and international sources has increased in

total funding• Capital investment exceeds 9.5 million euros• Ca. 150 researchers and more than 50 enterprises participate in over 100 eTampere

projects. 11 international projects.• Information Society Observatory, which aims to produce high-quality social-scientific

research on information society• WLAN Hämeenkatu and digital TV user studies• Smart home – from pilot to mass product• W3C – Finnish regional office in Tampere• 9 accelerator companies, several companies in pre-accelerator• Preliminary study for eTampere business services• 1 500 people trained onboard the Netti-Nysse Internet bus, almost 20 000 visitors• More than 3 000 citizens trained with training funding• eTampere card, a new key to services• New public online services developed, the City website visited more than two million

times a month• Several extensive international and national seminars (eGlobal, eBRF, Spearhead

network seminar etc.)

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Info City: eTampere Card

• eTampere City Card project is a part of eTampere programme, Infocity module.

• The aim of the eTampere City Card project is to develop a multi-application, dual interface smart card system that provides a key to Information Society services. The card will offer both private and public sector services for the residents.

• The project is co-ordinated by Access International Consulting Oy Ltd. VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) is providing additional technical consultant support.

• The pilot of the project started beginning of 2003 for local students. Gradually the smart card will be offered to all citizens. The distribution goal for the City Card is 100 000 units or 50% of the city population.

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eTampere City Card Applications

• Travel Card• e-Purse• PKI Certificates• e-Ticketing• Library• City Bonus• Access control

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Info-City: Netti-Nysse

• Netti-Nysse bus is an Internet facility on wheels with 12 computers and wireless (mobile/WLAN) Internet connections, and professional facilitators available for helping and teaching the users. The purpose of the netmobile is to teach the residents of Tampere to utilise the possibilities of the digital network and to use it for business and for fun, from sending and receiving e-amil to paying their bills at a digital bank.

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Access Points

• The City of Tampere has placed more than one hundred computers with free Internet connection in various kinds of public places. Also all schools and post offices and some shops maintain Internet computers in public use. There are connections available for senior citizens at day centres and community centres. A service point for visually disabled is opened in 2002.

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http://www.vtt.fi/tte/mobtv/

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Want to see more?

• Visit MindTrek International Media Week November 10th – 16th in Tamperehttp://www.mindtrek.org/

• EUROPRIX Scholars Network Conference:” Information Society and Digital Media for All — NOW”November 13th – 14th in Tamperehttp:www.mindtrek.org/sc

• http://www.etampere.fi/office/en/

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Cai Melakoski

[email protected]

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eTampere builds a humanly sustainable knowledge society

eTampere is critical but curious, daring but humble,

a builder of the new that respects the old.