EUMEDIS Focal Points Meeting

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• EUMEDIS Focal Points Meeting
• Brussels, 20-21 January 2000
• Pilot projects for Euro-MediteraneanElectronic
  Commerce
• Dr. Paul Desruelle - European Commission DG
  Information Society Unit C3 Electronic
  CommercePaul.Desruelle_at_cec.eu.int

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Contents

• IST Key Action II
• EUMEDIS Pilot Projects in Euro- Mediterranean
  Electronic Commerce
• For more information

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The Global Information Society A World in
Transition
Powerful processing - Moores law continues - 1
billion transistors chips
Intelligent software - distributed - learning -
self-organising - multimedia
New and enhanced - products - services -
organisations - work
Media Communications Computing
Global Information Society
Universal networked infrastructure - open
(internet-based) - powerful (broadband) -
ubiquitous - pluralistic (cable, satellite,
mobile) - integrated - evolving
New ways to work, play, do business, govern
millenium technologies infrastructures
convergence to the Single Digital
Space commodity computing
value wealth for people organisations
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IST Key Action IINew Methods of Work and
Electronic Commerce
Research networking
0.161 BEURO
KA1 Systems and services for the citizen
0.646 BEURO
KA2 New methods of work and electronic commerce
0.547 BEURO
KA3 Multimedia content and tools
0.564 BEURO
KA4 Essential technologies and infrastructures
1.363 BEURO
Future and emerging technologies
0.319 BEURO
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Key Action II New Methods of Work and Electronic
Commerce
Aims To develop Information Society technologies
and policy to enable European workers and
organisations to increase their competitiveness
in the Global Information Society, whilst at the
same time improving the quality of the
individuals working life, and consumer confidence
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Build on European Strengths

• Mobile communications
• Smart cards
• Electronic payments
• Digital television
• Enterprise software
• Digital local access
• Multicultural and multilingual society
• SME networks
• World class education system
• World leader in international trade
• World leader in key user industries
• (automotive, pharmaceutical, aeronautics, )

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Information Society New Economic Perspectives
Traditional Business

• Complex jobs/ simple organisation
• Assets tangible intangible
• Vision learning organisations
• Setting
• uncertainty, highly dynamic
• intangible resources
• the law of abundancy
• customer focus
• value-added products
• processes

• Complex organisation /simple jobs
• Assets tangible
• Vision efficient organisations
• Setting
• certainty, little change
• tangible resources
• the law of scarcity
• mass markets
• simple products
• processes

E-Business
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The Information SocietyNew Terminology
internetworked organisations
innovative workplaces
confidence
electronic business
smart products
trust
customer empowerment
dynamic processes markets
portfolio careers
intellectual capital
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Smart Organisations The inter-organisational view
Business environment in which clusters of
internetworked organisations collaborate around a
particular technology and make use of a common
architecture to deliver independent elements of
value that grows with the number of participating
organisations
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The Digital EconomyPerspectives
the technology perspective
C4
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IST WorkprogrammeComplementary Activities
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IST Key Action II New Methods of Work and
Electronic Commerce
Focus of Work New Ways of Working Unit C1 - a
society of skilled individuals Peter
Johnston The Smart Organisation Unit
C2 - competing in the digital economy Rosalie
Zobel Electronic Commerce Unit C3 - enhanced
products, services market Bror
Salmelin processes Trust and Confidence Unit
C4 - the enabling technological building Michel
Roy blocks and infrastructure
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Unit C1 New Methods of Work The individual's
perspective to increase individual and team
effectiveness, the quality of working life and
the range of work/employment opportunities for
all social groups in all regions through
development of user-friendly IS technologies and
new methods to organise work, and promotion of
best practice in their use. The unit will also
support consumer and citizen rights in work and
electronic commerce

• New work methods for individuals and teams
• Innovative workplaces
• Integration of roles of worker, consumer, citizen
• Employable, skilled and creative people
• Close links to related policy

Builds on work in ACTS Teleworking Esprit TBP
and IiM
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Unit C3 Electronic Commerce To keep Europe at
the forefront of the global digital economy via
facilitating innovation, creating value in the
electronic market place and co-operation with
leading edge organisations.

• New paradigms in value networks and dynamic
  markets
• Radically new systems approach for electronic
  business
• New forms of mediation brokerage
• Digitally enhanced products and services
• People-oriented electronic business
• Close links to related policy

Builds on work in Esprit IiM, MMS, TBP, ACTS,
e-commerce
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Pilot Projects inEuro-Mediterranean
Electronic-commerce (1/3)

• Projects should be test solutions which are
  likely to leverage
• - the creation of joint ventures or economic
  partnerships between companies and/or,
• - the development of a Euro-Mediterranean
  electronic market of both products and services.
• - the specific local economic resources of the
  Mediterranean regions in view of matching local
  offer with the demand of a larger
  Euro-Mediterranean market.
• -
• Projects may also include pilot outsourcing
  solutions (based on telework systems)

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Pilot Projects inEuro-Mediterranean
Electronic-commerce (2/3)

• Pilot projects should help prepare facilitate
• - Direct marketing
• - Distribution
• - Business-to-business relations
• in various sectors (e.g. chemicals, tourism,
  textile, food, etc.)
• Involvement of major economic actors and market
  intermediaries of the region is expected (e.g.
  Custom authorities, Industry federations, Bank
  Federations, Chambers of Commerce, Investment
  promotion agencies, etc.)

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Pilot Projects inEuro-Mediterranean
Electronic-commerce (3/3)

• Pilot projects should ensure e-commerce
  intermediaries the usage of open and
  interoperable systems.
• Projects should ensure sustainability with
  specific reference to transport and logistics
• Specific attention to be given to the visibility
  and user-friendliness of proposed solutions

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IST Key Action II New Methods of Work and
Electronic Commerce

• EUMEDIS Contact Persons
• IST Key Action II Teresa de-Martino
• E-commerce Pilot Projects Paul Desruelle
  Teresa de Martino
• Technologies for Industries Pilot Projects
  Jesus Villasante and Michel Roy
• e-mail address first name.last name_at_cec.eu.int

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Participating

• Innovation in technologies and business models
  participate to pilot and RD projects of the
  Information Society Technologies Programme
• ? http//www.cordis.lu/ist/home.html
• European Commission and Electronic Commerce
  legislation, business information, projects,
  background, etc.

? http//www.ispo.cec.be/ecommerce ? Email
ecommerce_at_www.ispo.cec.be
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Book on Accelerating Electronic Commerce in Europe

• 350 projects (2nd edition - March 1999)
• http//www.ispo.cec.be/ecommerce/books/aecebook.h
  tml