at the AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy

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in the UNIDO mandate
Bridging the Digital Divide through Knowledge
Exchange Information Systems

• at the AREA Science Park, Trieste, Italy
• www.ics.trieste.it
• info_at_ics.trieste.it

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What is ICS ?

• established in 1988 in Trieste, Italy
• operates under the aegis of UNIDO, UN specialist
  agency for industrial development
• forms part of UNIDOs industrial promotion
  network
• receives support from Italian Ministry of Foreign
  Affairs
• promotes transfer of sustainable technology and
  know-how to developing and transition-economy
  countries
• aims to advance industrial competitiveness and
  investment climate of target countries, through
  capacity-building and awareness-raising

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Basis of ICS programme

• Programme shaped by
• priority needs/demands from beneficiary countries
• Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs guidelines
• UNIDO collaboration and complementary programmes
• input of steering committees
• Strategy
• upstream solutions prevention
• optimization of industrial processes and
  technologies
• assessment (technical, environmental, economic
  and societal)

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Technical areas

• Pure Applied Chemistry
• Catalysis and sustainable chemistry
• Environmentally degradable plastics
• Remediation technologies
• Combinatorial chemistry and technologies
• Earth, Environmental Marine Sciences
  Technologies
• DSS for sustainable industrial development
• Coastal zone management
• Medicinal and aromatic plants
• High Technology New Materials
• Laser applications and optical technologies
• New materials
• Photovoltaic solar energy
• Telecommunication technologies

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Horizontal support

• Information Systems
• IT development in-house software, databases,
  networks, decision-support tools (e.g. software
  for process simulation, molecular modelling,
  remote sensing, GIS, mathematical modelling,
  environmental simulation)
• Technology Management
• Training in technology management and transfer
  skills (e.g. competitiveness, business alliances,
  partnerships, technology foresight)

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Achieving goals

• IT-based service modules, implemented through
  projects
• Participation in regional programmes
• e.g. UNEPs Mediterranean Action Plan Adriatic
  programme (MAE, CEI) ...
• In-situ problem-solving, case studies
• In-house validation of project proposals, and
  submission to international donors
• Training courses, workshops, meetings, training
  material
• International meetings, extended workshops, short
  courses, conventional and web-based training
• Hands-on experience
• Sharing of in-house IT expertise with partners
• Training of specialists to use and develop the
  tools they need
• Networking, focal points, training centers

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InfoTech

• Information
• Technology
• Network
• organize technology information
• include documents created by focal points and
  end-users
• search and retrieve information and documents
  through a dynamic databases
• manage information resources and technology
  innovation

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EKEN

• Education and
• Knowledge Exchange
• Network
• provide online learning
• libraries and knowledge exchange
• focus on technologies for industry and SMEs
• build and maintain information resources that may
  be shared within a network of partners
• Internet-based data collection and analysis for
  focal-point ambitions

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Contacting ICS
ICS-UNIDO AREA Science Park Padriciano 99 34012
Trieste, Italy tel [phone] fax
39-040-9228101 www.ics.trieste.it
info_at_ics.trieste.it
AREA Science Park