Miguel González-Sancho

European Commission, DG Information Society and Media

Unit “Digital Agenda: Policy Coordination”

Diego intermediate conference, Brussels, 29.09.2011

The Digital Agenda for Local and The Digital Agenda for Local and Regional DevelopmentRegional Development

Political Framework: Europe 2020

• Europe 2020 7 flagshipso Digital Agenda for Europeo Youth on the move o Innovation Union o An industrial policy for the globalisation erao New skills for jobs o European Platform against poverty o Resource efficient Europe

The DAE virtuous cycle

What is the Digital Agenda?101 specific actions, including 31 legal proposals

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Interoperability &

standards

A vibrant digital single market

Trust & Security

Research & innovation

Using ICT to help society

Enhancing digital literacy, skills & inclusion

Fast & ultra-fast Internet access

DAE Scoreboard

An open & inclusive process

Coordination with authorities in Member

States

Open data from the scoreboard

Digital Agenda Assembly

Online engagement

“Going Local II” 2011• September – December 2011

• Different topics per country/ event

• Not only in capitals

• Dedicated webspace on DAE website per country

• Use of social media platforms at country level

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National DSL coverage Rural DSL coverage

Broadband in Digital Agenda

Ambitious targets to promote social inclusion & competitiveness

Broadband/NGA targets

By 2013, basic broadband coverage for all EU citizens

By 2020, fast broadband coverage at 30 Megabits per second available to all EU citizens

At least half of European households subscribing to broadband access at 100 Megabits per second.

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EGovernment Action Plan: Structure

eGovernmentAction Plan

Empowering Citizens and Businesses

Strengthening the Internal

Market

Efficiency & Effectiveness

Pre-conditions

User Centric services

Collaborative production

Re-use of information

Transparency

Involvement of Citizens

Organisation process

Administrative burden

Open Specifications and Interoperability

Key enablers

Innovative eGovernment

Green Government

Seamless Services

Personal Mobility

Cross Border Services

Malmödeclaration

DAE

ICT for Government & Public Services – EC Instruments

PolicyAction Plan

Ministerial Conferences

ResearchFP7 – ICT for Governance & Policy Modelling

DeploymentICT PSPeParticipationePracticeeTEN

eGovernance – eGovernment - eParticipation

New Knowledge

JPI

Years,

Lives

Ageing Well – The EU Picture

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New solutions

AAL

Proven Ideas

FP7 ICT & Ageing well

FP7 eHealth

FP7 Health

Time to market

Active and Healthy Ageing Partnership

Ageing well action plan

eHealth action plan

Public Health Programme

StructuralFundsEIBESF

National

funds

Deployment support

CIP ICT & Ageing well

CIP eHealth

Evidence and innovation guidelines

Towards Horizon 2020“3 sets of challenges, 4 funding schemes”

Societal challenges

Industrial leadership

Excellence in science

Roadmap based Open, agile

Infrast and skills

Testing, piloting

e.g. EIPs

PPPs

FET flagships

FET openERC

Light WP

Any time

Small size

SMEs specific

e.g. Living labs

e.g. Clean rooms

eInfrastruct.

CIP Pilots

CIP Pilots

Proposals on cohesion policy•Common strategic framework for all structural funds

•Investment partnership contracts with Member States

•Stronger conditionality

•Concentration on poorer and weakest regions

•Thematic concentration

•Transition regions

“Connecting Europe Facility" (CEF) for broadband

• Announced in the MFF Communication (June 2011)• €50 bn for networks in transport, energy, and digital

infrastructures (formerly TEN)• INFSO budget: €9.1 bn

– Broadband networks (ca. €7.7, bn)– Smart Grids– Digital service infrastructures

• Expenditure through loan guarantees, infrastructure funds, plus grants and procurement

• Legislative proposals: EC adoption on 12 October• Requires pro-active promotion with MS decision-makers!

Europeana, eID, eProcurement, eBusiness,

eHealth, Data.eu, Safer Internet, multilingual services, European backbone, eJustice

blogs.ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

@DigitalAgendaEU

DigitalAgenda

ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda

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