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Socio-economic aspects - Sustainable development

SASKIA (IST-2001-38184)

Strategic Action for a Sustainable Knowledge and Information Age

SASKIA roadmaps the requirements and playerss to ensure that the emerging knowledge society will be sustainable in social, cultural, economic and environmental terms. It identifies ways of unlocking contributions of IST and IST-based processes to sustainability, and how future research agendas can increase that contribution. This is a key component of the EU's Lisbon, Stockholm and Gothenburg strategies. SASKIA is based on networking and the creation of constituencies of RTD stakeholders, through workshops. In its process dimension, SASKIA first defines a "landing place" scenario - where we want to be in 2030 - achieving a holistic vision through an inter-disciplinary integration of current approaches. From there, it roadmaps implementation models for players, roles, required R&D and open, to facilitate the players and actions, the advanced IST tool requirements that will allow a holistic approach to these complex issues.

Start date: 1 July 2002
Duration: 12 months

NESKEY (IST-2001-39080)

New Partnerships for Sustainable Development and Knowledge Economy

NESKEY establishes the agenda for research on Sustainable Development in the Knowledge Economy.

  1. Measurement and reporting project addresses disclosure of information on corporate environmental, social, and economic performance for stakeholders' decision-making. It develops global guidelines for companies in the ICT sector.
  2. Intangible assets project defines how to measure intangibles at micro and macro levels. It develops reporting standards facilitating evaluation the soft assets of a company, including the risk and opportunity elements.
  3. Sustainable cities project develops socio-economic and environmental indicators and creates communities between companies, projects, individuals, NGOs, experts and cities using ICTs contribution to Intelligent Houses as a test case.

The final report pulling the results together facilitates the development of EU models and scenarios for sustainable development and the knowledge economy.

Start date: 1 August 2002
Duration: 12 months

INTELCITY (IST-2001-37373)

Towards Intelligent Sustainable Cities

The thematic network will contribute to the IST 2002 Work programme Key Action II: New Methods of Work and Electronic Commerce, Action Line II.1.2, Strategic Roadmaps for Applied Research. It seeks to explore the possibilities of novel and emerging ICTs in seeking better understanding of the future research options & priorities in the application area of sustainable urban development, beyond FP5. It will bring together a wide range of European stakeholder interests & experience of planning, property development & management, utilities, urban transport, organisational knowledge management, e-business, e-governance urban modelling and scenario building in a consultative process. The network will explore user needs and expectations of ICTs in terms of new way so working in urban planning (application pull) as well as the research challenges for new developments in ICTs (technology push) for use in urban re/development in all regions of Europe.

Start date: 1 July 2002
Duration: 12 months

G-NIKE (IST-2001-38068)

Growth-Nodes in a knowledge-based Europe

EU enlargement and European monetary integration will both intensify interregional competition and increase inequalities between European regions. Growth and interregional competition will be based on "growth nodes" (networked clusters). We propose building a strategic road map for research into the impact of ICTs on the evolution of growth nodes. The research will adopt a knowledge management perspective to focus on the complex interactions that take place within and between these nodes. The strategic road map will address three questions:

  • How will the deployment and use of new ICTs modify the viability and sustainability of growth nodes?
  • What new 'rules of the game' will be required to equitably foster the growth of ICT-enabled growth nodes?
  • At what policy level will such rules be managed?

The research will involve a number of research collaborators and potential stakeholders that will form the nucleus of a pan-European network.

URL: www.uoc.edu/in3/gnike

Start date: 1 July 2002
Duration: 12 months