and within regions and point to opportunities for service providers to increase their subscriber base (ITU, 2014).
Access to new technologies is important for ensuring full participation by all people in new opportunities related to employment
and with the increasing focus on the opportunities offered by ICTS to developing countries, calls surfaced for reliable and comparable data
Delegates attending the eleventh World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium (WTIS) in Mexico city in December 2014 recommended that ITU should further examine the challenges and opportunities of big data,
and that national statistical offices, in cooperation with other relevant agencies, should look into the opportunities for big data and address current challenges in terms of big data quality,
and there is an opportunity to explore their use in order to complement the existing, but often limited, ICT data.
followed by Better job opportunities and Freedom from discrimination. Also highly ranked, in 7th position, was phone and Internet access.
Jul. 2014 Aug. 2014 Sept. 2014 An honest and responsive government Better job opportunities Freedom from discrimination A good education Political freedoms Protecting forests rivers
For operators, big data open up opportunities for better understanding of their customers, which in turn leads to improved sales and marketing opportunities.
At the same time big data can help optimize network operations and create new revenue streams and business lines, for example when selling data.
While the opportunities discussed above present what is analytically possible, data access and privacy considerations are nuanced complex
Very limited information is available on opportunities for using big data to complement official ICT statistics.
and to initiate a dialogue to identify opportunities and understand needs and constraints. Since many of the big data sources lie within the private sector
Governments Governments have different opportunities and different roles to play in the exploitation of big data for monitoring and development.
and examine the challenges and opportunities related to big data in the ICT sector. To this end, the key international stakeholders have to work together to facilitate the global discussion on the use of big data.
could be formed to explore new opportunities and address challenges, including in the area of international data comparability and standards.
which acknowledges that Big data represents new opportunities and challenges for Official Statistics, and which encourages the European Statistical System
Report 2014 ITU GSR discussion paper (2014), Big data-Opportunity or Threat. Retrieved from: http://www. itu. int/en/ITU-D/Conferences/GSR/Documents/GSR2014/Discussion%20papers%20and%20presentations%20-%20gsr14/Session3 gsr14-Discussionpaper-Bigdata
Seizing Opportunities, Preserving values. Executive Office of the President. Retrieved from: http://www. whitehouse. gov/sites/default/files/docs/big data privacy report 5. 1. 14 final print. pdf. UN Global Pulse (2012), Taking the Global Pulse:
The opportunity for digital technologies to create new businesses is real, and a quarter of respondents expect digital transformation to launch new products and services.
and only 15%said new business models were emerging thanks to digital technology (see Figure 4). It could be that these technologies are so new that they simply haven't had time to be turned into new business opportunities.
sloanreview. mit. edu Embracing Digita l Technology MIT SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW 9 understand the opportunity
including turning down the opportunity to provide chips for the original iphone. Intel's culture has long been built around maintaining market dominance through intense internal competition,
and innovative ideas so that thoughtful executives can capitalize on the opportunities generated by rapid organizational,
With the new digital economy creating significant disruptions and opportunities, our global team of over 3,
which is cheaper and quicker one of the most useful opportunities of social media Ministry for Information Society (responsible) All Ministries offering public services Promoting public debates Ministry for Information Society (responsible) All
Special campaigns and trainings Promoting open database as an opportunity for informal education Provide trainings on the methodology of developing digital skills Provide materials
Special campaigns and trainings Promoting open database as an opportunity for informal education Provide trainings on the methodology of developing digital skills Provide materials
be designed to support cross organizational data sharing opportunities and to facilitate interoperability. Main actions: The creation of the National Interoperability strategy and review Page 41 of 170 implementation National implementation of the legislative package on the review of ICT standards Develop the necessary measures to promote research projects
Implement feedback and evaluation mechanism (Operational) Opportunities for users to provide feedback should be integrated into the design of new electronic systems to facilitate suggestions from those that use the systems with a view to ensuring continuous improvement.
European commission Strategy http://ec. europa. eu/digital-agenda/en/news/eu-cybersecurity-plan-protect-open-internet-and-online-freedom-and-opportunity-cybersecurity In its Pillar III
which is cheaper and quicker one of the most useful opportunities of social media (Operational) ) Structure:
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 in both formal and non-formal settings. 3. 1. 2 European context An advanced digital society requires that most citizens can regularly access the Internet and benefit from the opportunities if offers.
and archiving the educational content (Strategic) The current technological opportunities provide access to resources such as OER-Open Educational Resources.
as well as an opportunity to develop digital interaction with the pupil/university students by creating, storing and sharing original content generated by them within OER.
255 Romanian disadvantaged communities had the opportunity to create and store in the Europeana. eu library original cultural material
Overall, 255 communities across Romania, namely 1. 8 million people living within this communities had the opportunity to be part of a new knowledge-based economy, through a successful implementation of local electronic networks.
Special campaigns and trainings (Operational) Promoting opening the learning databases as an opportunity for informal education (Enabler) Provide trainings on the methodology of developing digital skills (Strategic) Provide materials
NFC communication technology with short range (0-7 cm) which provides the opportunity to transform the mobile telephone in:
and software does not provide transparency at governmental level Opportunities Threats and constraints The development of an infrastructure for the egovernment of the public services The increase of the public services utilisation degree which are available in the online media The preparation of the coordinated implementation of intra-communitarian projects,
in order to benefit from the opportunities which were identified in Romania, in a regional framework: Utilisation of European coordination opportunities in order to increase the performance level of the interoperability between the informatics systems implemented at national level
and for the improvement of cybernetic security Support for the use of open sources and standards for future facilitation and assurance of interoperability of the informatics systems Introducing technologies such as Cloud computing
The existence of very few e-learning projects dedicated to the adult population The lack of a coherent approach for the continuous formation also during the adult life Opportunities Threats and constraints National and international financing
non-targeted Digital division According to the results of the SWOT analysis we can use the identified opportunities, such as:
and to support the homogenous internet utilisation among all groups of inhabitants and among all the regions of the country The opportunities
availability of the medical practitioners'with increased ICT competencies Opportunities Threats and constraints The development of the informatics infrastructure in Romania
and healthcare regional development policies provide development opportunities applicable to the healthcare system in Romania, such as:
and support of the development of digital competencies among the users The degree of provision of the cultural institutions with ICT equipment Opportunities Threats and constraints
by the clients The impossibility to establish the quality of the purchased product prior to its physical delivery Increased costs with the product shipment/delivery Opportunities Threats
as a development opportunity within future unique digital market of the European union: Development of legal framework with respect to the cross-border online services offer with the aim of reducing the legal and fiscal barriers of to the cross-border e-commerce Improvement of the level of informing the online service operators
and technological transfer The fragmentation of the Romanian research system the existence of an increased number of research institutes specialised on different fields of activity Page 133 of 170 Opportunities Threats
a series of measures will be prepared mainly for the improvement of opportunities in the field of ICT innovations,
Opportunities Threats and constraints RONET project laying backhaul will harmoniously complete the NGN developments into an overall NGN Plan for Romania;
exploring financial opportunities) 2. Evidence of qualification (confirming general management skills to the authorities, confirm to the authorities the specific qualifications provided) 3. Administrative requirements (obtaining the fiscal clearance certificate,
In order to have a coherent mechanism for defining an opportunity and assessing change in the current context,
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats TO...Thematic Objective TEÁOR...Single classification system of sectoral activities S&t...
Despite the significant market opportunities, the barriers to market development are still there. By encouraging innovation and introducing more effective processes
and technologies, there are significant opportunities for improving the efficiency and the capacities. Renewable energies Here, the initiative refers to energy sources that are extracted from regenerative energy sources, such as wind, solar, biomass, biodegradable waste or feedstock, geothermal waves, tidal and hydropower plants.
and utilizing the opportunities for Hungarian participation on RDI-related large international projects. Participation in major international programmes and projects CERN EFDA-JET (EURATOM) ILL EMBL SHARE ECRIN CENTRAMO Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development
Opportunities Education, training, research background: The high-quality higher education, which is currently operating in the industrial and agricultural zones, moves the big cities and their surroundings towards a knowledge-based economy,
while observing the local needs and opportunities. The process is designed to enable the individual Member States
the regions will have the opportunity to set up their own knowledge centres along the specialisation directions and,
and exploit the opportunities for cooperation at the local level in respect of all three visions.
and determine inter-sectoral and technological development opportunities at a satisfactory level. It has been important that the priorities should try to diversify the development directions.
on the other hand, gives an opportunity to innovation in the health tourism. Hungary has exploitable resources in the latter area also in respect of the medicinal waters,
Such complex agribusiness developments should be implemented that represent an opportunity to use innovative R&d solutions in crop production and protection technologies
Hungary has the opportunity to cooperate with the neighbouring countries in several various potential RDI-related areas of expertise in the next period.
The mining and raw material industry offer an opportunity for international cooperation with Bosnia and herzegovina in particular in the field of mining machines and technologies,
and higher education institutions and undertakings at Union level, increasing the social capital of the national institutions and exploitation of opportunities for cooperation with internationally renowned institutions.
there is an opportunity to reduce the taxes and charges on employment of personnel participating in research and development activities
it is the aim that this opportunity will be available to the broadest possible target group.
Taking into account Hungary's innovation abilities, opportunities and human potential, supporting the operation of start-up companies built on technological innovation brings along significant socioeconomic benefits.
Hungary has started a shared understanding between the government and the business operators on the promotion of the domestic business incubators and the opportunities for the development of the so-called start-up culture.
opportunities, value is given to creativity, knowledge and risk-taking, the domestic business opportunities are given a value,
and the country's ability to attract capital increases, the migration of skilled workforce decreases,
promoting access to opportunities of lifelong learning; updating the skills of employees, and matching education and training systems to labour market needs.
the reviews provide an opportunity for methodologically sound recommendations on how the resources can be reallocated
the opportunities offered by the tender can be used. This is an indicator more of a technical nature,
Open data increases awareness and coordination, creates new opportunities for innovation, and strengthens inclusion, participation and, ultimately, human well-being.
Opencorporates (OC) provides a good example of the opportunities in open data. It was set up to in the wake of the financial crisis to make information about companies and the corporate world more transparent and accessible.
This could be done through growing the digitalsocial. eu network to enable more opportunities for collaboration;
scaling and attracting funding opportunities. Equally, as DSI evolves policymakers need to understand the extent to which the policies they are putting in place to support DSI are affective 10 Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe 1 15 56 69 21 2
At the present moment, the Internet offers unprecedented opportunities for collective intelligence via its increasing ubiquity and the massive amounts of data available for collective transformation into knowledge.
Right now few of these opportunities are being taken advantage of by European social innovators for the most part due to a lack of an open infrastructure and difficulty finding investment.
Growing a Digital Social Innovation Ecosystem for Europe 29 Participatory democracy strives to create opportunities for all members of a population to make meaningful contributions to political decision-making
as well as broadening the range of people who have access to such opportunities. Since so much information must be gathered for the overall decision-making process to succeed,
These sensors provide the opportunity to implement applications that help citizens to move around in cities.
or corporate forecasters who have the opportunity to access and analyse data. By making data open, governments and other large organisations and companies that hold or generate data about society have the opportunity to enable citizens to hold government to account for
what it spends, the contracts it gives and the assets it holds. Local authorities are playing a leading role in implementing open data policies
and opportunities to develop the knowledge and self-sufficiency toachieve inclusion in decision-making processes. These are some of the main initiatives within the DSI field that are focusing on capacity-building
and women bring new perspectives while improving access to information, education and work opportunities for women.
3 4 5 6 Opportunities 7 and challenges Generating Ideas Developing and testing Making the case Delivering
Opportunities and challenges: These include all the initiating factors for instance a crisis, new evidence, and inspiration.
or identifying the opportunities that a new change could bring about. Generating ideas: Most of the ideas you come up with at first won't work.
and who know what the problems/challenges/opportunities are. Make sure they represent a sample of the type of practice you are developing policy for
including any evidence they have of impact Opportunities and challenges What really helped them get their project of the ground
Identify the problems/opportunities. We asked everyone in the room to individually complete this template to quickly generate ideas:
Crowdfunding allows people to have the opportunity to support what they consider to be an attractive idea
innovation labs present an opportunity to activate networks and to create collaborative work environments. In this context labs can be understood as spaces
PS21 has created systemic interventions such the Staff Suggestion Scheme that creates an opportunity for any public officer to directly submit ideas to improve public services.
identifies funding opportunities, and promotes new economic instruments (such as challenges, and prizes) should be promoted the,
scaling and attracting funding opportunities. As DSI evolves policymakers need to understand the extent to which the policies they are putting in place to support DSI are effective.
This focus could be on four key areas of opportunity in DSI. a. Collaborative economy b. Digital social innovation in cities and public services c. Open tools and distributed architectures
DSI has the opportunity to improve public services, cut costs and improve the environment. Easier procurement could be a route to scale
1. Grow the www. digitalsocial. eu network to enable more opportunities for collaboration through the platform,
such as the opportunity for organisations to jointly develop new projects and apply for funding through innovative mechanisms such as challenges,
and perspectives providing alternative solution pathways collaboration allowing for the social construction of knowledge opportunities for reflection involving metacognition opportunities for articulation to enable tacit knowledge to be made explicit coaching
and opportunities are exploited and managed. Ongoing costs Costs of the services are understood fully and managed against a budget and prioritised business demands.
and prioritise changes in business requirements and legacy ICT capabilities, risks and issues, opportunities and threats.
and the structure of their values chains and operations shape opportunities for small and medium size enterprises (SMES).
and they offer important opportunities to small firms. Government and the private sector have key roles in facilitating content availability across all platforms
and providing them with information to assess the opportunities and costs of e-business. However there is no one-size-fits all approach to policy
It can therefore provide small players with an opportunity to join and compete in a wide variety of supply chains,
When firms perceive a higher level of market opportunities, they commit more resources to ICTS
where firms perceive a higher level of market opportunities, they tend to commit more resources to e-commerce.
Barriers such as lack of technological capabilities and ability to identify business opportunities are greater for SMES than larger firms.
as these generally represent the initial opportunity for SMES to obtain affordable higher speed Internet connections (OECD, 2001b).
Firms need to make realistic assessments of e-commerce/e-business opportunities, benefits and costs. Policy measures that,
Financing may be an issue even after identifying beneficial e-commerce/e-business opportunities. Many commercial factors inhibit small business debt financing including high transaction costs for small loans, lack of sufficient collateral and high risk in innovative start-ups and micro-enterprises.
including delivery of recommended guidelines for on-line consumer protection. 38 Competition issues Ensuring competition and entry opportunities for other market players,
While Internet commerce provides SMES with opportunities to participate in new supply chains and markets,
and focus on self-assessment of opportunities, benefits and costs of e-business. Third is need a to coordinate
Industry Canada works closely with the E-business Opportunities Roundtable, a private sector initiative, on a series of regional events to help SMES understand
In the first place, they should help SMES self-assess the costs and risks as well as opportunities related to ebusiness.
Encourage business and sector associations to provide tools to assess e-commerce/e-business opportunities benefits and costs,
and improve information regarding financing opportunities. These issues may be of particular importance in developing non-OECD countries.
the Opportunities and Challenges for Australian Industry, March (available at http://www. itr. gov. au.
The opportunity to review the details of the order before placing the order was offered not in 11%of purchases.
It would welcome the opportunity to learn more about the experiences of both internet consumers
It is only in two recent preliminary rulings that the European Court of Justice has had the opportunity to provide more clarity on the scope of Article 14.
"Many stakeholders consider it important that the provider of allegedly illegal information should be given the opportunity to submit a counter-notice
when selling crossborder and also to create more awareness about the opportunities offered by selling in other EU countries
and provide an opportunity to examine the feasibility of an optional"unitary"copyright title to provide right holders with the flexibility to choose
and the non-availability of the information in a machine-readable format make it impossible to reap maximum benefits from the new opportunities that the data offer.
Opportunity risk is another facet of collaboration barriers, since difficulty in finding the right partner to innovate is high and,
We have the opportunity to experiment, scale up successes and kill early stage ideas which do not make sense;
Open/Big data and fast mobile communications are all creating opportunities for major changes in business models, in societal behaviour and in value-creation models in general.
We have the opportunities Open Innovation 2. 0 is paving the way for, in an inclusive, safe but disruptive way.
just as societal welfare depends to a large extent on economic development, jobs for people and new opportunities for industry.
entrepreneurial regions and entrepreneurial citizens become aware of new opportunities for business and social innovation and leverage resources to take advantage of them.
and demographic changes to discover opportunities to produce new goods and services'.'Kirzner focused on entrepreneurship as a process of discovery, in which the entrepreneur looks for previously unnoticed profit opportunities, after
which he/she initiates a process in which these newly discovered opportunities are acted on in the marketplace.
Of course, opportunity discovery for enhancing societal value is an entrepreneurial process as well. The Financial times Lexicon tells us that,
‘Entrepreneurship involves creating or discovering new ideas or opportunities for the purpose of creating value,
whether economic, social, or even political and forming a new organisation to do so'.'3 Dominique Foray, one of the conceptual founding fathers of smart specialisation, describes entrepreneurial discovery as the‘discovery and exploration of a new space of opportunities,
which is likely to generate many innovations and the development of a new activity'.'4 It is a process at the core of renewing Europe's capacity for renewal.
communities and businesses be given the opportunity to have their say, as traditionally they have often felt that they do not have a voice.'
Conference participants will have an opportunity to propose concrete activities to translate each of the action points into practice in their own real-world environments
diverse challenges and opportunities are being addressed. Mega-endeavours like the West Metro, a major transportation infrastructure project with a capital investment of close to EUR 1 billion
-and-out-of-the-box opportunities for creating breakthroughs in a process of collaborative solution seeking.
explore opportunities for open innovation and help eliminate the obstacles that block it. During the Camp, multi-disciplinary and international groups develop new ideas
and opportunities for realising the strategy with a broad group of local and international stakeholders.
an opportunity for its many pioneering innovation-based regions to organise open collaborative activities to engage the rest of Europe.
and building a Europe of excellent opportunities, co-created by its own citizens. References (1) Committee of the Regions (2014),‘Smart Specialisation Strategies:
and opportunities for entrepreneurs and SMES to build on the ecosystem offering, or use it as a channel to reach a broader customer base.
Opportunities for SMES and entrepreneurs. Establishing a core infrastructure of federated testbeds as a resource for users (academia, research institutes, industry, SMES.
In addition there are stronger opportunities to experiment with potentially risky technologies outside the company's boundaries using venture capital support and finances.
and develop funding opportunities; technology and knowledge transfer offices; education technology structures to develop education and learning products;
University marketing in the age of open innovation Open Innovation brings new opportunities and new challenges to universities in promoting their education programmes,
Universities are gradually exploring crowdsourcing and crowdfunding opportunities. While there is a need to pay some scrutiny to funding sources there are new crowdfunding platforms
The universities are given an opportunity to express their opinion on proposed legislation concerning their issues.
However, one has to find out the proper way to identify collaboration opportunities among the diverse innovation ecosystems leading to innovative co-created values
the brokerage session is intended more to offer to participants a source of leads for collaboration opportunities in terms of potential project proposals.
Logically, the next big issue for proposers is to find out either potential opportunities to join an ongoing research
The main goal of these matchmaking sessions was to provide every participant with a chance to identify collaboration opportunities in view of specific targeted actionlines of the H2020 Work-programme (WP.
and suitability of an online serendipity service (CONEX) to identify H2020 collaboration opportunities 6. The results of this previous study provided interesting insights in terms of individual
and an emerging matchmaking approach for systematically sensing collaboration opportunities. Related theories and previous work Open innovation
Matchmaking in the open innovation approach becomes an element of paramount importance 9 (Galbraith et al. 2008) in identifying collaboration opportunities.
H2020 partners search and opportunity finding Idealist was established in 1996 as an international ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) network.
such as opportunity finder and partners search through specific online tools and brokerage events. On the Idealist website, it is mentioned that‘Idealist addresses ICT companies
2) on the other hand, an online application tool (CONEX) offered a connection map (named‘My Network')providing a set of potential collaboration opportunities to every registered participant before, during and after the event.
The first one provided a source of identification of collaboration opportunities among attendees wearing the same colour-coded H2020 Challenge.
further exploration of all identified collaboration opportunities during the event or even after the event through asynchronous exchange (e-mail) or synchronous discussions (e g. phone or online).
in order to identify potential collaboration opportunities. CONEX users, simply browsing their network map, were able to identify the most relevant participants they had to talk to as a top priority;
in order to further explore these collaboration opportunities. Figure 1: Example of network map showing connections between participating entities (organisations and H2020 topics) O P E N I N N O V A t I O N 2. 0:
and to discuss eventual collaboration opportunities. This identification of relevant attendees could be done through the analysis of the CONEX network map based on the number of tags involved Figure 2:
It means that the overall matchmaking activity was good enough that every participant was quite busy with further discussing collaboration opportunities until the end of the event.
the matchmaking approach is intended more to create systemised connections among potential proposers that lead to unsolicited collaboration opportunities and eventually new breakthrough ideas.
One could conclude that the two approaches perfectly cover the full spectrum of proposers'cases in their willingness to identify collaboration opportunities
appropriate and attractive mean for creating event attendees'opportunities to connect and interact. For sure, it works until they are in the same physical space
Furthermore, it would be great to have the opportunity to explore and experiment the contribution of digital matchmaking (e g.
and speed-dating sessions offer much more opportunities of physical presence and social interactions due to their use in a physical space.
One could even start the discussion about collaboration opportunities through asynchronous and synchronous technologies (e g. e-mailing,
These spaces offer opportunities for testing and experimenting with ideas, business models and practices; they allow for flexible forms of cooperation in and across government, academia, research,
and have the opportunity to adapt their highest-scoring products to the market through the feedback that they receive from users.
and the opportunity to present products on international platforms will arise. The Executive Board Committee of ENOLL has decided during Open ENOLL 2014
and see opportunities in new ICT-based technologies. Public lighting and public lighting infrastructure can play a significant role as a stepping stone to achieve the ambitions of cities to become‘smart cities'.
and jointly seeking opportunities that deliver the best value for all partners. Introduction Cities strive to improve quality of life for their citizens
and see opportunities in new ICT-based technologies. At the same time companies are looking for ways to create a sustainable business in the smart city domain.
The resulting growth in the availability of data from sensors and controls creates many new service opportunities.
creating new design opportunities that address the innovation questions at different levels. If the system can create any desired ambiance for any moment, then
changing contexts and new opportunities. An example of a project that aims for a continuous learning environment to find ways to influence mood
which a living lab has been set up to explore the opportunities for innovative lighting solutions that will improve the atmosphere
Next to the challenges in finding sustainable and scalable business opportunities, there are also challenges in how to deal with privacy and ethics.
The shift from a focus on products to integrated services also creates the opportunity for recurring revenues in service development.
and opens up new opportunities for the co-creation of shared value through innovation. Public lighting and public lighting infrastructure can play a significant role as a stepping stone towards achieving the ambitions of cities in their transition towards smart cities. 94 O P E N I N N
embracing the uncertainties in the outcome and jointly seeking opportunities that offer the best value for the most partners.
This seeming economic disaster turned out to open opportunities for developments of new industries, the creation of new markets and the chance to build a new identity.
Blendle offers the opportunity to pay only for the article you want to read. Correspondent is an adfree medium that delivers the so-called long reads People are joining the movement for quality journalism.
We think that many opportunities lie in no-tech solutions, but as an innovator can you sell something that the rest do not even believe in?
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