PIKE Project workshop

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• PIKE Project workshop
• eGovernment good practices transfer between
• regional authorities
• experiences and challenges of Interreg IVC
  Capitalisation projects
• SARA DI FALCO
• Regione Piemonte
• 24th September 2009, Brussels

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CONTENTS

• Overview
• Fast tracking elements
• Partnership strength aspects
• Approach
• Exchange of experiences and transfer tools
• Transfer strategy good practices
• Transfer strategy workshops
• From good practices to action plans
• Methodology and transfer strategy the APST

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OVERVIEW

• B3 Regions is a fast track project funded under
  INTERREG
• IVC Programme
• B3 Regions aims at
• - exchanging and sharing good practices around
  the common theme of broadband regional
  development
• (main result indicators 8 thematic workshops)
• in order to
• - capitalise expertise under OPs 2007-2013
• (main result indicators 13 action plans)
• Duration 26 months (September 2008 October
  2010)

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OVERVIEW

• The projects components
• Component 1 Management and coordination
• Component 2 Communication and dissemination
• Component 3 Exchange of experience and transfer
  of good practices into the Structural Funds
  mainstream programmes

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B3 REGIONS FAST TRACKING ELEMENTS

• The main advantages of being a fast track project
  are
• Capitalisation of knowledge already available
  (tools, methods, approaches, managements skills,
  thematic knowledge..). Moreover capitalisation
  means to create a stronger link between exchange
  of good practices and mainstream funding
  programmes.
• Focus on the action translation of good
  practices into mainstream policies and
  programmes.
• Active involvement of the Managing Authorities
  of the relevant OPs.
• Concrete deliverable action plans.
• Better use of EU Structural Funds.
• Support of the EU Commission services
  especially DG Infosociety and DG Regional Policy.
  The projects partners are supported by
  Commission in different stages in their efforts
  to implement action plans within the OPs.

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The partnership strength aspects

• COMPLEMENTARITY OF THE
• PARTNERSHIP EXPERTISE towards project
  activities
• 8 Regional Managing Authorities
• (Piedmont, Sterea Ellada, Catalunya,
• Malopolska, Lodz, Crete, Lower Silesia)
• 5 ICT implementing Agencies
• (CSI-Piemonte, Nynet, NCA,
• iCentres Association, Fundecyt)
• 1 Local authority (Lodz)
• 2 ICT University Departments
• (Crete, Cyprus)

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The partnership strength aspects

• 2) HOMOGENEOUS DISTRIBUTION ACROSS EUROPE
• 16 partners coming from 8 Member States
• - 4 old MS Greece, Italy, Spain, UK
• - 4 new MS Bulgaria, Cyprus, Hungary, Poland.
• 3) MIX of MORE and LESS experienced partners
• about digital divide issues.
• 4) PRE-EXISTING collaboration among partners
  helpful at
• - making available a wide range of different
  broadband policy cases
• - supporting less advanced Regions in developing
  their ICT plans.

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THE APPROACH

• The 3 projects components are strongly
  interrelated to deliver the main output of the
  project action plans that define precisely how
  the good practices will be concretely implemented
  under OPs 2007 2013 of each Region involved.
• All the three processes are structured as follow
• CONTENT PULLING instruments for feeding the
  existing knowledge repository (thematic
  workshops, study visits, twinnings)
• KNOWLEDGE HARMONISATION instruments for
  organising and making available all the
  information collected
• CAPITALISATION ASSETS instruments for
  exploiting knowledge (conferences, e-learning,
  action plans, guidelines, reports).

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EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCES AND TRANSFER TOOLS

• 8 Thematic workshops and exchange of broadband
  good practices
• Study visits
• Staff exchange through twinning between Regions.
• Each twin couple is formed on the basis of
  common interests by a Region which has already
  developed a broadband strategy under SF 2000-2006
  and a Region which has to develop broadband under
  SF 2007-2013
• National and international conferences
  (dissemination events)
• The project platform (Action Plan Support Tool).
• The e-learning platform

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TRANSFER STRATEGY good practices

• In order to successfully transfer the broadband
  practices into OPs, the partnership has to share
  the following know-how
• good practices in broadband strategies
• experiences in managing OPs and designing ICT
  strategies.
• Each workshop is an useful learning moment to
  share good practices around the main broadband
  themes. The good practices are selected on the
  basis of successful results obtained in each
  Region and their potential to be transferred to
  different geographical areas creating added value
  at the European level.
• E.g.
• Piedmont Region WI-PIE Programme
• Catalunya Broadband
  infrastructure in the Pyrenees area
• University of Crete The smart village
  project
• Malopolska Region One of the new MS having
  an initial experience in broadband
  strategy development using SF.

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TRANSFER STRATEGY workshops

• The capitalisation process is achieved thanks to
  a transfer process of broadband experiences
  around specific sub-themes in a harmonised way.
• The main themes proposed by Regions (which
  correspond to as many workshops) are
• LESSONS ALREADY LEARNT
• Demand Aggregation (Nynet - UK)
• E-government services and management of the
  infrastructure
• (Lodz/ Malopolska/ Lower Silesia - Poland)
• State Aid Regulation (Extremadura/ Catalonia -
  Spain)
• Educational services (Crete/ Sterea Ellada -
  Greece)
• Establishing an ICT Observatory (Piedmont -
  Italy)
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• LESSONS STILL TO LEARN
• Access in remote rural coastal mountain areas
• (University of Cyprus - Cyprus)
• EU broadband search engine (NCA - Hungary)
• Public Private Partnerships and funding models
  (iCentres - Bulgaria)

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WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

• Each workshop has a standard structure able to
• ensure the good practices exchange
• promote the discussion.
• STRUCTURE
• Problem definition
• Statement of the objectives set (quantitative
  and qualitative)
• Methods, practices and approaches implemented
• Outputs and outcomes generated
• Adaptations/customizations required
• Transferable lesson learnt
• Q A session
• Open discussion
• Exchange of views and information among project
  partners.

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WORKSHOP OUTPUTS

• Report, a sort of handbook containing topics and
  good practices presented
• Audio-video documentation
• Feedback form (about the workshop satisfaction,
  contents and
• improvements)
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• E-learning modules containing for each theme the
  following issues
• - context definition,
• - statement of objectives set,
• - methods,
• - practices and approaches
• implemented,
• - transferable lessons learnt,

- discussion section, - glossary, - e-game, -
similar initiatives and projects.
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B3 REGIONS E-LEARNING PLATFORMexample of a
course

http//merope.ucnet.uoc.gr/b3regions/
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FROM GOOD PRACTICES TO ACTION PLANS
transferred experiences
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FROM GOOD PRACTICES TO ACTION PLANS
transferred experiences
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FROM GOOD PRACTICES TO ACTION PLANS
transferred experiences
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FROM GOOD PRACTICES TO ACTION PLANS
transferred experiences
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PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED IN THE TRASFERRING PROCESS

• During the B3 Regions review meeting hold in
  Pollenzo (July 2009) emerged that regional
  elections can be a crucial point in the action
  plans transferring and in their adoption in the
  Regional Operational Programmes especially if the
  elections are unpredictable with a sudden change
  in the Regional government (e.g. Sardinia Region)
  and a consequently reorganisation process as well
  (political issues)
• Other issues raised were
• a lag time in the Regional Operational Programme
  budget allocation
• - sometimes it is easier to get funds by National
  government instead ERDF due to a strengthen
  relationship between National/Regional Bodies.

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METHODOLOGY and TRANSFER STRATEGYthe APST

• The B3 Regions transfer methodology is also
  implemented through the Action Plan Support Tool
  (APST), aimed at
• collecting and organising existing experiences
  among partners (the various best practices are
  split into their basic components in order to be
  easily transferable and adaptable to the wider
  number of Regions and contexts)
• supporting the Managing Authorities involved to
  develop strategic action plans through OPs
  2007-2013.
• Such tool is conceived as a multidimensional
  matrix making possible to connect 4 types of
  information
• 1. problems / issues targeted
• 2. policy solutions
• 3. contextual environments
• 4. rate of success.

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METHODOLOGY and TRANSFER STRATEGY the APST

• The APST, based on the Case Base Reasoning (CBR),
  is useful in solving problems studying similar
  cases.
• The tool recognises the policy by searching and
  retrieving in the memorised good practices those
  that better fit some requirements allowing to
  identify the starting point in defining the
  broadband strategy.
• In practice the APST aims to assist regional
  policy makers in developing broadband action
  plans through
• an intelligent provision of essential
  information about broadband good practices across
  Europe
• an ex-ante evaluation of plans building-blocks.
• APST delivery by April 2010.

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For more
For further information please visit the B3
Regions official website

http//www.b3regions.eu/
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• Thank you
• for your attention!
• Sara Di Falco
• Direzione Innovazione, Ricerca ed
  UniversitàSettore Sistemi Informativi e
  Tecnologie della ComunicazioneC.so Regina
  Margherita, 174 - 10152 TorinoTel.
  39.011.4325663
• sara.difalco_at_mail.regione.piemonte.it
• http//www.regione.piemonte.it/

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