Public Procurement Public Procurement is the purchase of goods, work or services by a government or a public agency.
Directive on reduced VAT rates for labour-intensive services Revision of the-already existing-Late Payments Directive 20 21 In February 2011, the European commission presented its Small Business Act Review.
Given the extensive work already being undertaken to promote research and innovation in the Region, and the aim of this Strategy to increase innovation through greater collaboration,
Forfás Innovation Works Report 2004 Report of the Research Prioritisation Steering Group 2011 National Smart Specialisation Strategy National Level Midwest Regional Planning
can provide up to 80%of the cost of research work to develop new and improved products, processes or services,
Additionally the Charles Parsons Initiative (CPI) consolidates the work and expertise of several UL-based research centres focused on sustainable forms of energy,
However, further work and collaboration is required if the Region is to reach its full potential.
To work with businesses in the identified sectors to establish the barriers to business expansion and research & innovation in the Region;
To work in coordination with key stakeholders in the Region e g. local authorities, Higher education Institutes and business support agencies such as Enterprise Ireland to ensure that funding is focused on removing the identified barriers to development;
Clusters therefore build strong competitive companies with the capacity to work with innovation in an international arena.
To work with Innovate Limerick Ltd . and the Local authorities in the Midwest to develop a calendar of open innovation events in the Region throughout the year such as open forums
The yearlong festival built on the success of previous events that have been organised through the work of the Alliance since 2009.
To work with Innovate Limerick Ltd. to provide incentives to cultivate Limerick as a‘Start-up City';
It is recommended that these agencies continue to work to raise awareness and increase up-take of the supports that are available to businesses in the Region.
It is recommended also that they work in collaboration with Innovate Limerick Ltd. to develop a suitable Investor Forum Programme for the Region.
however, that the LEOS work in close co-operation with the HEIS in the Region who have both experience
and expertise in this area to ensure that the work of the LEO complements the existing role of the HEIS in accessing EU funding under a variety of programmes.
The work was carried out under the overall direction of Cosmas Zavazava, Chief, Project Support and Knowledge management Department, Telecommunication Development Bureau.
The diffusion of ICTS in the economy has been found to facilitate macroeconomic performance and business growth by increasing labour productivity
health, social welfare, finance and labour. In Africa, 31 per cent of countries provided online information on social welfare and 65 per cent on finance (Partnership, 2014.
The United nations Open Working group (OWG) on SDGS concluded its work in July 2014. Its final report is expected to be submitted to the President of the United nations General assembly (UNGA) and the UN Secretary-general by August 2014.
it recognizes and appreciates the work of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for Development and encourages Member States to collect ICT data at the national level.
and business growth by increasing labour productivity, enlarging enterprises'market reach, saving on costs and fostering innovation.
Its methodological work has contributed significantly to the collection of solid evidence on ICT developments worldwide,
analysed and disseminated, in view of the large data gaps prevailing in many developing countries in basic statistics in the areas of the economy, health education, labour, etc.,
Each member contributes to the work of the Partnership within its specific mandate and competence.
and the Partnership has reported to UNSC on progress in its work in 2005, 2007,2009, 2010,2012 and 2014.
The methodological work developed by the Partnership has contributed significantly to the collection of evidence on ICT developments worldwide, based on internationally comparable statistical indicators.
The work of the Partnership has also been acknowledged in ECOSOC resolutions in 2008,2009, 2011,2012 and 2013,28 in the context of assessing progress made in the implementation of the WSIS outcomes.
The commission requested the group to include the following in its work programme: 31 To make an inventory of ongoing activities and concrete examples regarding the use of big data for official statistics at regional,
In view of the link between big data and ICTS, work is under way in ITU with a view to contributing to the debate
however differ because of varying labour costs across countries and regions, but that is only a part of the total CAPEX of telecommunication operators. 15 For instance, the average revenue per user per month for GSM services in India was less than USD 2 in March 2012,
ITU discussion forums on ICT statistics Much of ITU's work in the area of indicator definitions and statistical methodologies is carried out through its two expert groups:
with speeds of up to 150 Mbit/s. In 2014, the Vice-president of the European commission for the Digital Agenda and the Republic of korea's Minister of Science, ICT and Future Planning signed an agreement to work towards a global definition of 5g
The European commission is partnering with the Republic of korea to work towards a definition of 5g. Furthermore, it launched a publicprivate partnership on 5g (5g PPP) in late 2013 that aims to deliver solutions, architectures, technologies and standards for the ubiquitous next-generation communication infrastructures of the coming decade.
particularly in specific demographic segments like the transient labour population is one of the policy recommendations brought forward by the report (ICTQATAR 2014).
the results do not show how this relationship works, and should not be interpreted as identifying a causal relationship between the IDI and MDG indicators.
and decent work for all, including women and young people 1. 4 Growth rate of GDP per person employed 1. 5 Employment-to-population ratio Ratio of youth unemployment rate to adult employment rate 1. 6 Proportion
GDP) plus the net flows of factor income (such as rents, profits and labour income) from abroad.
Online job-posting data are being used to supplement traditional labour statistics in the United States7 and other countries.
) Similar work in Haiti showed how mobile phone data was used to track the spread of cholera after the 2010 earthquake (Bengtsson et al.
This could be pursued in a similar way to the work done by Frias-Martinez and Virseda (2012) on estimating socioeconomic variables using mobile-phone usage data,
and cannot know what factors contributed to the strong correlations found in its initial 201 Measuring the Information Society Report 2014 work.
More work is needed to understand fully the potential of big data and examine the challenges and opportunities related to big data in the ICT sector.
Together, ITU and UN Global Pulse could facilitate the work that needs to be done by NRAS and NSOS, through awareness raising and engagement on privacy frameworks
This positioning method works best for cell areas with a radius greater than 500m, so it is suited more for rural and semi-urban areas with sparser antenna coverage.
Other work has sought to understand international societal ties in Rwanda (Joshua E. Blumenstock, 2011) and the effects of migration on societal ties in Portugal (Phithakkitnukoon, Calabrese, Smoreda and Ratti, 2011.
It works through an online discussion forum (http://www. itu. int/ITU-D/ict/Expertgroup/default. asp) and face-to-face meetings.
and invest in the ones that work. Corporate leadership needs to tweak its road map based on these smaller projects,
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and systems III-Trust and security Page 10 of 170 In order to reach the goal to reform the way how the government works,
Society (responsible) Encouraging Access to the Existing Passive Infrastructure Ministry for Information Society (responsible) Page 26 of 170 Improving the Transparency and Coordination in the Relevant Civil Works
and in the collaboration between them 4. Work procedures for the development of egovernment solutions and for the management of subsequent egovernment activity 5. Electronic centralized system of authentication of users and unique identification of the users prepared
and service procedures in the work and processes to determine provisions that could promote the use of electronic channels.
related to determining a technical work frame for the interoperability of governmental organizations. The concept of governmental Cloud approaches both issues combining a particular concept of a hybrid Cloud with an area of Public cloud for citizens and an area of Private cloud for interoperability.
as their primary customer, in their work, their decisions, research and implementation. The citizen should be considered the main source for feedback and solution improvement,
in order to serve their needs 3. Collaboration open data will provide opportunities to work together (improvement of service, generation of data sets) with natural persons,
and skills necessary to adult individuals so they may have the perspective of a work place
when engaging, facilitating their entry into the work environment. Responsible: Ministry of Education with support from Ministry for Information Society Using ICT (OER
Materialization and digitalization of cultural heritage (libraries, physical archives and audiovisual works, museums) to facilitate access to the European level
Romania will have to digitalize approximately 1000 cultural works/day in order to achieve the precise target. Making the collections held by Europe's libraries, archives,
works. By designing all representative cultural creations in a wide digital universe, within an electronic consistent format, will provide access of future generations to the artistic creations from the past By facilitating the access to these digital registries,
of which is represented by the cost of civil engineering works. A major part of these costs can be attributed to inefficiencies in the rollout process related to the use of existing passive infrastructure (such as ducts conduits, manholes, cabinets, poles, masts, antenna installations
, towers and other supporting constructions), bottlenecks related to co-ordination of civil works, burdensome administrative permit granting procedures,
Improving the transparency and coordination in the relevant civil works; Simplifying the authorization procedures for the new network developments;
Strategic) Amendment of Law No. 50/1991 regarding the authorization of construction works, so that the construction of electronic communications networks, of infrastructure elements and of supporting infrastructure for electronic communications networks should be governed by a distinct, coherent and simplified chapter in this law.
Improving the Transparency and Coordination in the Relevant Civil Works. Operational) Developing a system to inform the operators with regard to the civil works planned by local authorities The systematic possibility to mount pipes
and related infrastructure together with the performance of public works Simplifying the Authorization Procedures for New Developments.
Data calculated for people of work age (15 64 years. Source: Statistical research of work force in households (AMIGO.
The Labour Inspection Purchasing a vehicle Registration of the vehicle 1. Obtaining a certificate of authenticity from the Romanian Auto Register 2. Payment of registration fees
The Ministry of Labour Retirement 1. Retirement at the age limit 1. 1 Application for Retirement 1. 2 Submission of documents proving the fulfilment of the full seniority required for retirement 1. 3
Issue of the retirement decision 2. Early retirement 2. 1 Application for Retirement 2. 2 Submission of documents attesting to the amount of work placements 2. 3 Submission of documents
Authority for Communications Ministry of Interior Ministry of Labour Ministry of Defence Ministry of Education Special Telecommunications Service Ministry of Health Ministry of Transport Ministry of Public Finance
Prepared as a result of the work, the national smart specialisation strategy sets the directions for the entire country,
and require skilled labour industries have been able to show a significant improvement in recent years (manufacture of machinery and equipment, vehicle production, manufacturing of computers,
electronics and optical products) as opposed to the more labour-intensive industries which required a lower level of automation (manufacturing of textiles,
Territorial characteristics of RDI Almost two-thirds of the country's approximately 24 thousand researchers work in Budapest.
where the majority (in FTE) works outside Budapest or the central region owing mostly to the research-intensive universities of Baranya, Csongrád and Hajdú-Bihar counties.
80%of researchers work in Budapest and Pest county. The R&d expenditures develop similarly to the personnel data,
compared to the more labour-intensive industries, which require less automation. The service sector dominates in the production of added value in a significant part of counties and Budapest,
The large foreign and Hungarian companies operating in the country have created cuttingedge work culture. R&d capital concentration and the modern RDI infrastructure appeared in the vicinity of the large companies.
which results in reduced labour-holding capacity, and the standard of living cannot be maintained. The H2020 appearance of the scientific and economic actors is realized not at the expected level.
which coordinates the work of the other organizations involved in the design process, directs and ensures the work of these organizations from the methodological and quality aspects,
and prepares the smart specialization strategy for strategic decision-making. Inter-ministerial Working group: it was formed in order to ensure the monitoring of the planning process of the S3 strategy-building at the government level,
their work is supported by the county government offices under the guide of the S3 Management Team.
The county governments are involved also in the work of the Local Research Priorisation Working groups. Under the leadership of appointed experts, the work organisations are jointly carrying out the organising work
which ensures the mobilisation and involvement of the local stakeholders. The counties are responsible for establishing the specialisation directions with the involvement of all stakeholders by setting out from the local and regional experience and building on the own knowledge and information of the participants.
RDI infrastructure) arising during the implementation of S3 are linked also to the work of the Office.
which envisions an internationally competitive specialization-learning-alignment process which works on the long term, and the strengthening of an STI ecosystem. 3. 2. Classification of the Hungarian counties In order to ensure that the domestic regions,
The established directions, identified breakthrough points and main RDI key sectors could be used as a basis both by the work organisations responsible for planning
the S3 work organisations have collected also proposals through an on-line, publicly available questionnaire. The respondents have had the chance to provide their priority proposals as an answer to an open question (not a closed form of questionnaire has been used),
Formal assessments are carried often out in the interests of those who manage the interventions with the aim to improve their work.
in addition, the most appropriate and competent experts carry out the work, which develop the local and the national economy.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attributionnoncommercial-Sharealike 4. 0 International License Principal investigator and main author:
Nesta is backed with an endowment originally provided from the UK National Lottery and works through a combination of research, investments,
One example of the potential in mobilising citizens to create collective knowledge is done the work by Cancer Research UK on their citizen science platform Cellslider.
The study also indicated some examples of how these actions could be implemented within the framework of the Digital Agenda for Europe and under the Horizons 2020 Work Programme.
and policy for DSI in relation to the Digital Agenda for Europe and under the Horizon 2020 Work Programme,
Health and Wellbeing, Finance and Economy, Energy and Environment, Education and Skills, Culture and Arts, Work and Employment, Participation and Democracy, Neighbourhood Regeneration,
Bitcoin) 7. Some of these have encouraged deliberately a changed awareness of how economies work for example, valorising labour time equally,
Projects and areas of work like Safecast or open source Geiger, the Smart Citizen Kit and open wearables are showing interesting potential in combining innovative technology trends to generate unexpected services.
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC) HACKERS NETWORKS 34 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe The World wide web Consortium (W3c), an international community that works on developing
that works on promoting peer-to-peer practices, and the Iot Council, promoting an open Internet of things vision,
The work by Nesta in the UK, on the tech for good incubator Bethnal Green Ventures,
Most European cities work with sensors that monitor environmental conditions. Pollution, temperature, humidity and light sensors are installed that provide information that could be used to develop applications for citizens
Guifi. net COMMUNITY NETWORKS The work by Tor on creating secure, privacy-aware and crypto tools that bounce Internet users'and websites'traffic through‘relays'run by thousands of volunteers around the world,
Other pioneering examples include the work by the Estonian Government and the not-for-profit Praxis on the Meiraha project
as is the work by the social innovation research project COMMUNIA. The European Thematic Network on the Digital Public domain is an international association based in Brussels. COMMUNIA is built on the eponymous COMMUNIA Project Thematic Network, funded by the European commission from 2007 to 2011,
which is funded not by the European union but shows how open research works, is FLOK Society in Ecuador.
The work by organisations like Raspberry Pi and Arduino illustrates the potential in open hardware.
and Economy Energy and Environment Participation and Democracy Smart public services Science and technology Education and skills Culture and Arts Work and Employment DSI AREAS AREAS OF SOCIETY New
AND SKILLS PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRACY CULTURE AND ARTS HEALTH AND WELLBEING WORK AND EMPLOYMENT Arduino Avaaz Avoin Ministeriö Bethnal Green Ventures Citysdk Clearlyso Angels Communia Commons 4 Europe Confine Crisisnet Desis Network Everyaware Fablab
AND ECONOMY ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT PARTICIPATION AND DEMOCRACY NEIGHBOURHOOD REGENERATION SCIENCE EDUCATION AND SKILLS CULTURE AND ARTS WORK AND EMPLOYMENT 254 251 164 163 162 138
and women bring new perspectives while improving access to information, education and work opportunities for women.
Most of the ideas you come up with at first won't work. But it's only through the process of constant idea creation that you arrive at something that is radical and transformative.
As outcome of the DSI policy work shop, we have designed a Bottom-up Policy Toolkit for practicioners
and helped them to scale up their work What the biggest barriers were faced that they and how to address them (through policy?
You may also want to promote the importance of evidence-based policy-making as a continual process of understanding what works (and
Conversely, institutions and in particular public institutions and work done with public money should be open and transparent.
seeking the right balance between the interests of creators (to control their work and to be able to make a living from their creativity) and the interests of society (access to information and culture, freedom of expression)( Keller,
and to create collaborative work environments. In this context labs can be understood as spaces and units set up run
Observing potential users to see if the product works in their context Quantitative responses to the idea,
Establishing potential routes to market How the impact is measured As emphasised in the framework developed by Nominet Trust there are a number of tools digital social innovations can apply to capture the impact of their work,
The work done by Wikiprogress is exploring new digital tools for including people, in relation to what should be measured through the development of indicators,
design work. Thank you to the projects Advisory Group who have been generous in sharing their own experience from working with
A teaching gimmick that works. Developmental Cell, 7, 796-798. Wood, J.,Keen, A.,Basu, N,
and our work led to audited savings of almost £1. 2 billion in 2012. Our vision is to help the nation spend wisely.
The processing and payment of the state pension, a service delivered by the Department for Work
NAO analysis of Authority data 3. 4 The Authority works to a target to process 97.5 per cent of items accurately.
or implement the remaining work. The Authority is taking ongoing tactical steps to reduce the scope of the legacy system
CIP would also require further development to add the business rules for the work-load currently handled by the legacy system.
The introduction of the streamlined process, November 2011.6 Department for Work and Pensions: The introduction of the Work Programme, January 2012.7 Department for Work and Pensions:
Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission: cost reduction, February 2012.8 HM Revenue & Customs: The Compliance and Enforcement Programme, March 2012.
and Trade The report sets out policy messages and recommendations from the work undertaken on this topic.
Further work by researchers in 13 OECD countries based on large scale statistical surveys provides evidence that the use of ICT can contribute to improved firm performance, in terms of increased market share,
Moreover, it indicates that ICT may help reduce inefficiency in the use of capital and labour, e g. by reducing inventories,
organisational change and innovation are key to making ICT work, and that the use of ICT affects firm performance primarily
Any further work on ADR/ODR in the SME context would need to be undertaken in close coordination with the ongoing work programme of the Consumer Policy Committee on ADR issues,
Industry Canada works closely with the E-business Opportunities Roundtable, a private sector initiative, on a series of regional events to help SMES understand
HTML. 7 Communication from the Commission to the European parliament, the Council, the Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions, Towards a Single Market Act, For a highly competitive social market economy, 50 proposals for improving our work
Right holders tended to claim that the EU acquis has promoted the cross-border availability of copyright protected works.
a peer-2-peer file sharing service particularly known for sharing pirated works, was not a hosting service provider.
which is capable of identifying on that provider's network the movement of electronic files containing a musical, cinematographic or audiovisual work in respect of which the applicant claims to hold intellectual property rights,
or counterfeited works, information about both up-and downloaders needs to be shared between the right holders
It includes practical examples showing how the Directive works. The guidelines must evolve in response to the input received from national enforcers, the emergence of new practices or additional questions and the development of European and national case law;
online service providers adapt works according to the linguistic and cultural tastes of each country in an attempt to maximise economic returns e g. film distributors'staggered release windows. 195 In the absence of a European public domain,
Second, the creation of a clear and well-functioning legal framework for the multi-territorial licensing of musical works for online services will encourage the uptake of new business models that provide online services to European consumers 2
http://ec. europa. eu/internal market/copyright/docs/ipr strategy/COM 2011 287 EN. pdf 73 digitisation and making available of"orphan works".
"198 Orphan works are works such as books, newspapers or films that are protected still by copyright but
and archives to digitise their works and make them available online. The lack of a common EU framework on orphan works is a particular obstacle to the development of European large-scale digital libraries.
As part of its efforts towards the creation of digital libraries, the Commission brokered a Memorandum of Understanding with Key Principles between authors
They differ from orphan works in that their right holders (authors and publishers) are known. 199 3. The proper functioning of the Internal Market requires the development of a durable approach to private copying levies.
Remuneration for private copying of copyrightprotected works is collected in the form of levies on recording media or recording equipment (photocopiers
the Commission launched a public consultation on the online distribution of audiovisual works on 13 july 2011
Proposal for a Directive of the European parliament and of the Council on certain permitted uses of orphan works,
http://ec. europa. eu/internal market/copyright/docs/orphan-works/proposal en. pdf 199 See for more details European commission, Memorandum of Understanding:
Key Principles on the Digitisation and Making Available of Out-of-Commerce Works, 20.09.2011, available at:
and their work is crucial in Europe's pluralistic and democratic society. Protecting author's rights for journalists and ensuring that they maintain a say over how their works are exploited is central to maintaining independent
high-quality and professional journalism. Publishers play an important role in disseminating the work of writers, journalists, researchers, scientists, photographers and other creators.
The Commission believes it important to safeguard the rights that journalists and publishers have over the use of their works on the Internet, in particular in view of the rise of news aggregation services.
Commission services will continue to examine these issues in the light of new legal and technical developments. 4. 3. 6 Grey markets In its application report on the implementation of Directive 98/84/EC (on the protection of conditional
which would follow up on the full range of previous Commission work on collective redress at the EU level is scheduled in the Commission Work Programme for 2012 (Initiative 110 in the Annex to the Communication from the Commission to the European parliament, the Council, the European Economic
and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions Commission work programme 2012. com (2011) 777 final vol. 2/2.-.299 Council Regulation (EC) No. 44
One of the achievements of this work programme is notably the so-called"e-commerce moratorium"(WTO members will not charge import duties on electronic transmissions),
The work programme has been ongoing since 1998 and covers all trade related aspects of e-commerce,
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