The second project Conference “LEARNING FROM BENCHMARKING TO MAKE I2010! A REALITY IN THE REGIONS: DATA ANALYSIS , IMPACTS ON ICT POLICIES, EMERGING NEEDS”, will be hosted by the Committee of the Regions of the European Union in Brussels on the 30th March 2006.
The conference will be aimed at the presentation of the UNDERSTAND results based on the regional benchmarking of the information society through common methodology and comparable indicators and of their impacts on policy making. The event will also offer a broad picture on the regional development of the Information society through the presentations of other European best practices as BENTLI, SOURIR, BIRRA. Thus we will demonstrate more in general how regions contribute to the delivery of the I2010! objectives. The relevance and the potentiality of the benchmarking exercise will be the heritage that the Understand regions will share with the IANIS+ framework.
The event will be structured in two main sessions: the former providing a picture of the status/progress in the Information society implementation as it comes out from the UNDERSTAND results and from the ones of BENTLI, SOURIR and BIRRA. The latter will be dedicated at presenting how benchmarking improves policy making in the regions and help tackle i2010! objectives ; we will show what regions learnt from data, how they actually implemented the benchmarking results in their policies and what is still missing to improve policy support. This session foresees the full involvement of policy maker and managers from the participating regions.
The conference is targeted on Regions; Development Agency; Research centres working on ICT, P ublic Administrations, regional development, statistics; Local administration; national and European statistical offices, EC officers working on INFSO and Regional Development, Regional networks.
Working languages: English, Spanish, Italian, Polish
The event is hosted and sponsored by the Committee of the Regions.
IMPORTANT: Because of the CoR security policy, registration is mandatory to access the conference building.
PLEASE REGISTER WITHIN 24TH MARCH 2006.
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