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Public Strategies for the Information Society in the Member States of the European Union Public Strategies for the Information Society in the Member States of the European Union A report prepared by Isabelle Chatrie and Paul Wraight, LL&A An ESIS report Information Society Activity Centre DG Information Society This version includes two additional contributions from the EFTA/EEA countries Norway and Iceland (November 2000) September 2000 The ESIS Project The Information Society Project Office (ISPO) at the European Commission set up a survey of European Information Society Projects and Actions in the 15 EU Member States called ESIS. This project ran for a period of two years between February 1997 and January 1999. It was further extended to 25 CEEC and Mediterranean countries and a continuation phase for Member States was implemented in 2000 with a narrower scope. This report on Public Strategies for the Information Society in the Member States of the European Union has been produced to provide up-to-date and relevant information that would support the existing reports and database on the web site. ESIS holds information on a broad range of commercial and publicly funded Information Society application projects in Europe. It aims to provide a tool for benchmarking, knowledge, communication, partnership and the promotion of best practice examples. Furthermore, it can serve as a navigation tool for all key actors and help in the promotion of the Information Society in Europe. More precisely, ESIS combines four categories of information: · An inventory of projects, which is the core of ESIS. Projects must use ICT in an innovative, interactive way and provide remote access. They may concern a large number of social and economic sectors and be initiated by national, regional, public and private organisations, or through partnerships set up between public and private groups. This inventory is conducted on the basis of a standardised questionnaire that is filled in by project promoters. This permits national and European qualitative and quantitative analysis based on standardised data and statistics. · The monitoring and regular analysis of new regulations and a collection of basic facts on Information Society developments. · A permanent overview of public and private promotional actions and initiatives aimed at favouring the development of the Information Society. · The mapping of the actors, notably the public or private network facilities offering Information Society infrastructure, services and applications (e.g. gas, railways, water supply, cable TV, highways, electric networks etc.). The European Commission has made the general findings and statistical results openly available to all parties with a strong interest in the development and progress of Information Society initiatives, including various European Commission directorates, units and services, industry and social partners in Member States, individual organisations and research bodies, as well as the general public (http://www.ispo.cec.be/esis). Sema Group and LL&A provide Project Management support services to the project. LL&A would like to thank Athena Argyriou, stagiaire from the Leonard de Vinci University in Paris, for her valuable contribution to this report. Contact: [email protected] This report has been prepared under the sole responsibility of the contractor. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Commission, nor does the Commission accept responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of information contained herein. ã European Communities, 2000 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged 2 Public Strategies for the Information Society in the Member States of the European Union Table of contents Introduction ....................................................................................................... 9 General Overview ............................................................................................. 11 Towards Information Society Public Strategies.......................................................13 Key actors ........................................................................................................14 Key points ........................................................................................................15 Public Strategy Overview: main documents, key actors ..........................................19 Country Summaries ...........................................................................................23 Austria.............................................................................................................. 39 Introduction ......................................................................................................41 1. Historical overview .........................................................................................42 1.1 Telecommunications initiative Austria (1994)..............................................................................42 1.2 The Austrian's way into the Information Society (1995-1996) .......................................................42 1.3 The Federal Information Society Report: an Austrian Strategy and Action Plan (1997) .....................43 1.5 Regional Information Society Initiatives .....................................................................................44 2. "Österreich digital", Government's Information and Communication Project and "eAustria in eEurope" .........................................................................................45 2.1 Österreich digital.....................................................................................................................45 2.2 Organisational changes ............................................................................................................45 2.3 Launching the "Government's Information and Communication Project" and "e-Austria in Europe" ....46 2.4 Recent development: E-commerce Task Force ............................................................................51 Belgium ............................................................................................................ 53 Introduction ......................................................................................................55 1. Historical Background .....................................................................................56 1.1 Federal Initiatives (1994-1998).................................................................................................56 1.2 Initiatives of the Flemish Government (1994-1998).....................................................................57 1.3 The Walloon Region (1995-1998) ..............................................................................................57 2. Current developments at the federal and regional level.......................................58 2.1 Federal Initiatives....................................................................................................................58 2.2 Flanders Government initiatives ................................................................................................60 2.3 Walloon Government: Contrat d'Avenir pour la Wallonie...............................................................61 Denmark........................................................................................................... 63 Introduction ......................................................................................................65 1. From "Info-Society 2000" to "Action for Change": evolution of the Danish IT action plans................................................................................................................66 1.1 White Paper "Info-Society 2000” (1994).....................................................................................66 1.2 IT Policy Action Plan 1995: "From vision to action - Info-Society 2000"..........................................67 1.3 IT Policy Action Plan 1996: "Info-Society for All – the Danish Model».............................................67 1.4 IT Policy White Paper "Authorities heading for a fall" and IT-policy Action Plan 1997/1998: "Action for Change" ......................................................................................................................................67 1.5 National sub-strategies and sectoral action plans ........................................................................69 2. Digital Denmark; "Conversion to a Network Society" and "Realigning to a Network society" ............................................................................................................71 2.1 Preparation of a New IT Strategy (November 1998).....................................................................71 2.2 Publication of the Discussion Paper: "Digital Denmark: conversion to the network society " (November 1999)..........................................................................................................................................72 2.3 IT Policy Strategy: "Realigning to a Network society" (December 1999) .........................................73 2.4 Recent developments...............................................................................................................77 Public Strategies for the Information Society in the Member States of the European Union 3 Finland ............................................................................................................. 79 Introduction ......................................................................................................81
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