Digital Agenda for EuropeDoes ICT matter - Dimensioning the issue

Maresa Meissl, CONNECT-F1, Growth and JobsTraining programme for European Semester Officers

Does ICT matter ? – Facts [Growth]"Embracing an Innovation Stimulus Package", Google Inc., 12 July 2012

But we lack 900.000 people!

ICT boosts productivity

•Investment in ICT generates a bigger return to productivity growth•than most other forms of capital investment.

•(Source: Oxford Economics, Capturing the ICT Dividend, 2011)

Sources of average annual labour productivity growth, 2000-2007

Broadband drives competiveness

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A 10% increase in the broadband penetration rate results in 1 to 1.5% increase in annual GDP per-capita. Faster broadband = higher GDP growth. (Czernich et al. -

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What is the Digital Agenda about?

Single European Market in digital sphere

Basic broadband for all Europeans by 2013 and faster rollout of

high speed internet

E-skills for all Europeans

Interoperability & standards

Trust & security online

ICT research & innovation

ICT solutions for ageing, climate change, cleaner transport, e-government, e-health …

Going digital means ensuring conditions for growth and jobs

Still Europe is lagging in going digital

eCommerce: citizens

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e-Commerce – not enough cross-border purchases

Target: 20% of the population should buy cross border online by 2015

Source: Commission services based on COCOM Total number of subscription by households and enterprises divided by population.

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Regular Internet users never use the Internet

Increase regular use from 60% to 75% - Halve the % of the population that have never used the internet by 2015

Confidence in IT skills is low, especially those related to work and privacy and security

% of people feeling confident in performing certain computer and internet activities, 2011 (Scoreboard)

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…only 53% of the active labour force

DAE Review December 2012

7 Key Transformative Actions

Copyright Framework Review

Public Sector Infrastructure (CEF)

Regulatory measures on non-discrimination & wholesale pricing (Broadband)

European Cloud Partnership

Directive on Network & Information Security

Grand Coalition on ICT skills & Jobs

Common Industrial Strategy for micro- and nano-electronics

The Digital Single Market – a borderless EU economy

Full implementation of updated DAE - Impacts

• Annual state of play of progress in all 101 Digital Agenda actions in all 27 EU Member States

• Overall progress good:

• more than 50% actions completed

• ~10% actions behind schedule

• DAE review December 2012 announced refocused actions

Digital Agenda Scoreboard

DAE implementationOnline stakeholder engagement

work with the Digital Agenda High Level Group

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/GOING LOCAL

Connecting with local stakeholders

SCOREBOARD Monitoring country progress – explore open data

DIGITAL AGENDA ASSEMBLY

23 Actions for Member States

• Overall good progress

http://www.daeimplementation.eu

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