Description du projet
Un outil pour réduire la fracture numérique entre toutes les régions
Le développement durable, équilibré et inclusif des zones rurales, côtières et urbaines dépend de l’accès à la connectivité du dernier kilomètre et aux solutions informatiques de périphérie. Des outils d’aide au développement commercial et à la prise de décision dans le choix d’un écosystème de technologies sont importants pour accroître la résilience aux perturbations et aux déficiences de la chaîne d’approvisionnement. Dans ce contexte, le projet XGain, financé par l’UE, adoptera une approche orientée vers les praticiens pour développer un outil de facilitation des connaissances, conçu pour faciliter le développement de modèles commerciaux et soutenir la prise de décision dans la sélection d’un écosystème de technologies. L’objectif global est d’accélérer l’adoption des solutions XGain par la communauté au sens large, et de garantir un impact maximal sur la réalisation d’un développement durable, équilibré et inclusif des zones rurales.
Objectif
New trends such as teleworking and e-commerce, as well as the need for a further increase of digital tools in all sectors (i.e. health, education, transportation, farming, etc.) demanded by the Covid-19 pandemic, are pointing out once again digital territorial inequalities, supply-chain disruptions and deficiencies in economic opportunities that hamper resilience and prosperity of rural communities. Accessibility and connectivity are key issues to mitigate this erosion of socio-territorial cohesion. However, identifying a common solution for equipping rural communities with increased access to services, opportunities and adequate innovation ecosystems ensuring that no one left behind is a challenging task, mainly due to the diversity of challenges and needs of different locations. In this respect, XGain fosters a sustainable, balanced and inclusive development of rural, coastal and urban areas by facilitating access to relevant stakeholders, such as municipalities, policymakers, farmers, foresters and their associations, to a comprehensive inventory of smart XG, last-mile connectivity and edge computing solutions, and of related assessment methods. The XGain overall project objective is, to deliver a Knowledge Facilitation Tool, facilitating business model development, supporting decision-making in the selection of an ecosystem of technologies, consisting of connectivity options and edge processing solutions, by following a multi-actor and practitioner-oriented approach, and by coherently assessing their socio-economic and techno-environmental effects, aiming at: increasing systemic resilience and energy efficiency; contributing to climate mitigation; and reducing the digital divides between different types of citizens, farms, sectors and regions.
Champ scientifique
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementcommercee-commerce
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementbusiness models
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesinfectious diseasesRNA virusescoronaviruses
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesforestry
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinateur
106 82 ATHINA
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