Transcript Digital Content in the EU

eContent
European Digital Content
on the
Global Networks
Roland Haber
On behalf of the European Commission
Agenda
• The rational
• The eContent programme
• The focus in 2003 - 2004
More and more people are connecting
to the global networks
According to Nua.com 605 million people
have internet access (Q3 2002)
Users
2004
2003
Users
2002
2001
0
50
100
150
200
250
190 million of those live in Europe,
and the number is growing
The ability to deliver rich content over the networks
is increasing
Even if the latest stock market downturns has
slowed down the technology sectors
Europe
has
Rich content base
Assets in
linguistic
and cultural
customisation
...but it
is
Long publishing
tradition
World
ranking players
Lagging in
e-publishing
The objectives of the eContent programme
• improving access for all to high-quality digital
content on the global networks
• in a multiplicity of languages, catering for
different cultures
• supporting the increased availability, use and
distribution of European digital content
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will the eContent programme
reach these ambitions? ?
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100 million Euro
Action Line 1
Action Line 2
Improving access to
and expanding the use
of public sector
information
Enhancing content
production in a
multilingual and
multicultural
environment
40%-45%
40%-45%
Call 1
2001
Call 2
2002
Action Line 3
Increasing dynamism
of the digital content
market
10%-15%
Call 3
24-26 million
2003
Call 4
2004
2005
Call 3
Call 4
Action line 1
Improving access to and expanding use of
public sector information
Action line 1
Public sector information
What is public sector information?
– Legal/administrative data.
– Financial/economical data,
– Culture, archives, entertainment, information
material
– Geographical data including land and property
information, traffic information, environmental
data
– Services at local level such at education, health etc.
– Science and technical information
– And more……………………………..
Action line 1
Public sector information
Important for citizens:
• Bringing citizens closer to administrations
• Important in the democratic process
Important for business:
• Essential to make business strategies
• Crucial for taking advantage of the internal market
rights
And in particular for the content industries:
• Source for new information products (aggregation)
Action line 1
Public sector information
(1.1) Cross-border information services based on
public sector information.
What the Commission is looking for?
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The cross-border nature of the information service
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The added-value nature of the information service
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The business case,
-
Re-use aspect
Action line 1
Public sector information
(1.2) Establishment of European digital data collections
based on public sector information
What the Commission is looking for?
Projects that will show:
–
Coverage of a considerable part of Europe
-
Scalability
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Impact of the action on the digital content market;
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Involvement of Candidate Countries where
appropriate
Call 3
Call 4
Action Line 2
Producing Content in a multilingual
and multicultural environment
Action line 2
Multilingual and multicultural environment
Objective
To ease access to and ensure a wider
availability of high quality networked content
across markets and communities, by
encouraging co-operation between the
European content and language industries.
Action line 2
Multilingual and multicultural environment
What the Commission is looking for?
(1) Partnerships for multilingual and multicultural
content
between various actors in the content and language
industries:
localisation of applications and services
addressing multimedia content accessible
through various platforms and devices
Action
Actionline
line21
Multilingual and
Public
multicultural
sector information
environment
What the Commission is looking for?
(2) Projects strengthening the linguistic infrastructure in
Europe:
Networking of existing regional and national
resources and their access and use by content actor
Development of new multilingual resources for less
widely spoken languages
Covering an adequate number of languages
Call 3
Call 4
Action Line 3
Increasing dynamism of the digital
content market
Action line 3 Increasing dynamism of the digital content market
Objective
To support the European content market by
horizontal actions that increase the effectiveness of
the main action lines of the programme.
Action line 3 Increasing dynamism of the digital content market
(3.1) Exchange of good practices
To stimulate the exchange of best-practices throughout Europe
on the re-use of public sector information and the linguistic
customisation of content.
What the Commission is looking for?
case studies,print and electronic publications, and
presentations at major public event.
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Thematic networks to improve the learning processes
and the exchange of good practices on the re-use of
public sector information at European level
Action line 3 Increasing dynamism of the digital content market
(3.3) Management of rights for digital content
Stimulate an environment for the acceptance of right clearance
solutions for digital content, with a special attention given to
material originating from the public sector.
What the Commission is looking for?
Actions aiming at creating a dialogue between:
- content creators,
- collecting societies,
- content industry players and
- consumer organisations.
Identification of emerging business models and pricing
schemes.
Ideal eContent project
eContent co-funded project
=
available technology + right partnerships +
innovative idea with a business model
Based on:
•Re-use of public sector information
•Linguistically&culturally customised content
Contact points & info
http://www.cordis.lu/econtent
Help desk
[email protected]