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Project Contributions to Programme Objectives
Domain 6 - Horizontal Actions
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Contrib. to Progr. Objectives |
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Tested advanced communications services for parliamentarians & policy makers with about 800 users from 27 countries. |
Stimulated technology & policy links. | ||
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Impact assessment & forecasting of global developments in advanced communications |
High impact of scenarios and results including input to G7/8 meeting in Ottowa | ||
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AC113 |
Provided an 'information window' for the ACTS programme, with two way information flows, both from ACTS to the outside world, and from the outside world to the ACTS community. Structured around information gathering and authoring, editing, marketing and publishing - across a variety of target audiences - products included: two-weekly Newsclips service on the www site, Thematic Issues giving in-depth analysis of state of the art within the ACTS programme; Annual publications of reference material on the programme & projects on CD-ROM and www. |
Promoted the development of advanced communications in Europe and beyond, by maximising accessibility of information from the ACTS programme. | |
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Increased the participation of SMEs in the work & exploitation of results from ACTS, by providing: a Participation Broker system based on ACTS services and used by SMEs Europe-wide: an electronic news & information service on ACTS topics relevant to SMEs; a SMARTS designed user-friendly tool that enabled SMEs to engage easily in electronic commerce; a 'Marriage Broker' service, with events to promote SME participation in ACTS |
Helped small & medium enterprises (SMEs) to acquire advanced telematic and communication services and implement them in their business procedures and work environment. | ||
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Established the European Charter for Telework, supported by hundreds of very relevant business and public figures throughout Europe in order to make the positive potentials of new ways of working more feasible than potential threats. Consensus Groups were established by the project, within which the Signatories of the Charter worked together with Partners of DIPLOMAT, Expert advisers and very high level representatives to develop Guidelines and improve information availability and the knowledge needed for the deployment of telework. With even more emphasis on studies, knowledge dissemination and advisory services for the implementation of further improved guidelines; the work of Diplomat will be continued in the new European Forum on Work Organisation (Work, Information Society and Employment Forum - The W.I.S.E. Forum). |
Work, Information Society and Employment Forum has been established by DIPLOMAT for follow-up activities on a broader scale and wider scope. W.I.S.E. is placed as a pan-European instrument for policy and business consultation on a very high level, with major impact on strategies for work, employment and policy development, in order to assist European leadership into the Information Society. | ||
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Provided information on potential benefits & stimulated consensus development in Europe on Telework, Teletrade, & Telecooperation through: its website, established as the worlds most complete & active point of connection for telework; support of other ACTS projects in GAT (telework chain) to promote wider take up of ACTS concepts & project results through guidelines; support of other key activities, including the annual Commission Telework status reports, annual European Telework Assemblies, European Telework Week and major contributions to the European IT Observatory (EITO). |
Helped to build European confidence & competence in telework, teletrade and telecooperation. Provided information of considerable value to researchers, developers, suppliers & users of IS products and services as well for policy making. | ||
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A CD-ROM, presenting the state of the art in user-centred service design and usability methodology. |
The USINACTS User Group, contributed to a new ETSI Guide to disseminate world-wide the user-centred service design and usability methodology training information. | ||
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Tecno-economic evaluation of different fibre/mobile access networks. Modelling tool allows comparison of alternative architectures, investment scenarios, and cost-effective broadband deployment. |
Promotes understanding of the different cost elements, competitive alternatives, risks and opportunities for the provision of advanced communications to businesses and homes. | ||
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Identifies end user requirements and performs techno-economic evaluations for ACTS projects |
Support to ACTS projects researching any form of cost-effective applications of advanced communications technology | ||
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AC234 |
"Foresights, Visions, Critical Issues and Statements for the European Telecommunications Evolution" identified critical issues preventing or obstructing the development of advanced communications and provided foresights and visions of how telecommunications can serve the forthcoming Information Society. |
CONVAIR established common strategic views on the appropriate evolution of Communications in the forthcoming Information Society. | |
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Creation of a state-of-the-art service platform providing access to ACTS-relevant technologies and interfaces to information on ACTS RTD |
Supported European RTD projects in commercialising their products via sustainable and successful trials. | ||
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Impact assessment analysis of the potential sustainability of Information Society development. |
Promoted debate, understanding and awareness of ICT and IS opportunities which can contribute to sustainable development in its environmental, social and economic dimension. | ||
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Synthesis of ACTS Guidelines and channelling of specific programme results to targeted audiences. Results are available on www.actsline.org |
Core project for Programme Level dissemination, helping to increase the impact and awareness of projects' results where it really counts. | ||
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24 thematic videos and one 1-hour institutional documentary to present the key messages of ACTS; an audio-visual database from which producers and journalists can extract images/video-clips to use in their media. |
The promotion and dissemination of ACTS key messages to a large scale non-technical audience (the dissemination goal is to reach 20 million people all over Europe), by producing high quality audio-visual programmes and documentary reference information, to be disseminated through broadcast TV programs. | ||
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Generated and tested a new information system combining textual, graphics & videosources. |
Improved awareness of technology policy issues relating to advanced communications to parliamentarians, including CEE. | ||
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Continued the base information & service infrastructure after the end of the INFOWIN project, to ensure the visibility of ACTS results into the 5th framework programme. Provided additional dissemination activities: extending the information window to new geographical regions, especially Eastern Europe; & editing and publishing information on ACTS success stories. |
Improved the exploitation of results from ACTS projects and increased interest in participation in future European IST research and development programmes. | ||
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Business case studies: the Economics of UMTS, Fibre Access Evolution, Broadcast Convergence, Tele-learning in N-Africa. Tecno-economic tool (free to all ACTS trials who requested it). |
Diffusion of ACTS trial results on the economics of broadband deployment. |