Transcript JAMES in the context of the Global Information Society

RESPECT for Professional Values and
Practices Conference
Budapest, 12 June 2003
Socio-economic Research in IST Scope, Status
Tina Mede
New Working Environments Unit
Outline
• The impact of ICTs and the Information Society
• Socio-economic research “tradition” over
several framework programmes
• Why socio-economic research in IST?
• IST impact on policies
• Socio-economic research activities in IST
• What has changed from FP 5 to FP 6?
The Impact of ICTs
& the Information Society
Powerful processing
Intelligent software
Media
Communications
Computing
New and enhanced
- products
- services
- organisations
- work
Global
Information
Society
Global networked
infrastructure
Millenium technologies
& infrastructures
Convergence to the
“Single Digital Space”:
commodity computing
Value &
wealth
for people &
organisations
New ways to
work, play,
do business,
govern
Socio-economic Research “Tradition”
… over several Framework Programmes
FP4
(1994-1999)
FP5
(1999-2002)
FP6
(2002-2006)
DG
INFSO
ESPRIT,
ACTS,
RACE
IST
Priority 2
(IST)
Multidisciplinary
research
DG
RTD
Targeted
SER
Targeted
SER
Priority 7
Mainly
social research
Policy Context
ERA: European
Research Area
FP6, Eureka, COST,
National RTD
Programmes
Enlargement
Lisbon Strategy
… towards a
Single Market
for Research
“EU: Largest
knowledge-based
economy by 2010”
Broadband access, ebusiness, e-government,
security, skills, e-health, ...
Candidate
countries
are full partners
in
FP5
Other policies
Single Market, Single
Currency, Security of
Europeans, Sustainable
Development, ...
Why Socio-Economic Research in
IST?
 Definition of Socio-economic research
 Objective
 To understand ICT impact on economy and
society
 To give guidance to R&D strategy within
IST programme
 To provide direct input to the development
of future EU policies
 Challenges
To provide policy making
with a vision
Socio-economic Research Clusters in IST/
FP 5
The Industrial Organisation
scenarios
intangible assets
structural change
innovation
Work & Employment
impact on society
eWork and employment issues
eInclusion
technology adoption
Sustainable Development
corporate practices
transition to knowledge economy
corporate social responsibility (CSR)
sustainability: economic, social,
environmental
Regional Development
Legal & Regulatory
digital regional economies
statistical indicators, benchmarking
rural & regional development
public-private partnerships
60 Socio-economic projects
•13 directly addressing policy-making
Project results
•Analytical (Concepts, Methodologies,
eEconomy factors, Impact Ass.)
•Synthetic (Recommendation for
action, Strategy development)
virtual organisations
contract law, ADR schemes
DRMs, identity & IPR management
consumer protection
Statistical Indicators
productivity, intangibles
New Economy Statistical Information System
measurement harmonisation
impact assessment
IST Impact on Policy Making
How?
•
Variety of contributions
• Scenarios & forecasting (TERRA2000, STAR)
• Policy recommendations, toolkits, policy fora
• Expanding the socio-economic knowledge base
•
Feedback mechanisms
•
•
•
•
bridging the gap between research and policy making
Direct input to policy making by research (e.g. eEurope)
Cross-disciplinary policy fora inside European Commission
Synthesise & communicate research outcomes, e.g. through
events that attract researchers, policy makers & businesses
IST Programme’s Impact on Policies
•
Contribution to
•
Research policy
•
Enterprise policy
•
Regional
•
Enlargement
•
Employment
•
Sustainability
• Technology analysis & trends
• Competitiveness
• SMEs,
• Innovation
• Institutional re-engineering
• Inclusion: Information Society for all
• Geographical focus (e.g. Baltics,
SE Europe, eEurope+)
• Relocation, telework, new employment trends
• Social & environmental sustainable development
What has changed from FP V to FP VI ?
IN T E G R A T IN G E U R O P E A N R E S E A R C H
H um an
re s o u rc e s &
m o b ility
R e s e a rc h
in fra s tru c tu re s
in the know ledge society
ERA
C itizens and governance
Sustainable developm ent
THE
and global change
Food safety and health risks
S T R U C T U R IN G
R e s e a rc h
and
in n o v a tio n
A N T IC IP A T IN G
R e s e a rc h fo r p o lic y
s u p p o rt
A eronautics and space
N anotechnologies, intelligent m at.,
new production processes
Inform ation society technologies
for health
G enom ic and biotechnology
P R IO R IT Y T H E M A T IC A R E A S
S /T N E E D S
F ro n tie r re s e a rc h ,
u n e x p e c te d
d e v e lo p m e n ts
S p e c ific S M E a c tiv itie s
S p e c ific in te rn a tio n a l c o o p e ra tio n a c tiv itie s
J R C a c tiv itie s
S T R E N G T H E N IN G
THE
F O U N D A T IO N S O F E R A
S c ie n c e a n d
s o c ie ty
C o o rd in a tio n
o f re s e a rc h
a c tiv itie s
D e v e lo p m e n t
o f re s e a rc h /
in n o v a tio n
p o lic ie s
Role of Socio-economic Research in IST
EP & Council Mandate
(Specific Programme)
„… close articulation for research & policies needed for a
coherent & inclusive Information Society …“
IST Objective
„… to realise the benefits of the Information Society for Europe
both by accelerating its emergence and by ensuring that the
needs of individuals and enterprises are met. …“
RTD not for the sake of RTD, but …
… to contribute to the overall policy objectives of the EU
6 FP/ IST - Socio-economic research
What is different to FP 5?
• Socio-economic module as part of large
R&D projects in:
• Priority areas e.g. IST, biotechnologies,
sustainable development
• Targeted socio-economic projects in:
• Citizens & governance in a knowledge-based
society
(Priority 7)
• Supporting policies & anticipating scientific
& technological needs (Priority 8)
• Science & society:
awareness measures, dialogue between research,
business & society, ethical issues
IST WP 2003/2004 : vision
 Vision
 “to increase innovation and competitiveness in
European businesses and industry and to contribute
to greater benefits for all European citizens”…
 “Realising this vision requires a massive and
integrated effort that addresses the major societal and
economic challenges”.
 Main societal and economic challenges to be
addressed are
 solving trust and confidence problems
 strengthening social cohesion
 enabling growth and improving competitiveness of
businesses and governments
 supporting complex problem solving in science,
society, industry and businesses
IST WP 2003/2004 : new approach to SE
research
 New approach : more holistic understanding of the
SE drivers and implications of IST
 IST projects:
– SE dimension as integral part of each IST project
– Multidisciplinary. Strategic visibility
– Supporting actions (project specific)
SE in project
 General accompanying actions.
– Cover socio-economic aspects that cut across differentHorizontal
IST fields (horizontal)
– Run in parallel with Strategic Objects, to support
adoption/ transfer of technologies/ research results
 Priority 8/ IST
– Demand driven policy oriented research
SE
Policy SE
Indicative call sequence & topics
Strategic objectives covered in Call 2
1. Advanced displays
2. Optical, opto-electronic, photonic functional components
3. Open development platforms for software and services
4. Cognitive systems
5. Embedded systems
6. Applications & services for the mobile user & worker
7. Cross-media content for leisure and entertainment
8. GRID-based Systems & solving complex problems
9. Improving Risk management
10. eInclusion
11. Product design & manufacturing 2010
+ FET proactive + Research Networking + Accompanying actions
Technology
components
Integrated
systems
Sectorial
Applications
How are Socio-economic aspects being
addressed in the project evaluation ?
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Practical implementation of the socio-economic crosscutting
issue in the IST execution process:
Strategic Objectives / Proposal phase
Composition of the evaluation panel
• SE expertise
Briefing of evaluators
• Raising awareness of SE relevance
Evaluation
• SE dimension as condition of S&T excellence
• SE issues as management quality criterion (IP, STREP)
• SE dimension as policy concern
Contract negotiations
• Upgrade of SE equality if necessary
Follow up
• Final plan/ Indicators and qualitative analysis
Towards an “all inclusive knowledge society”
IST today
“Ambient Intelligence” tomorrow
• PC based ………………………….
“Our surrounding” is the interface
• “Writing and reading” ….…………
Use all senses, intuitive
• “Word” based information search …
Context-based knowledge handling
• Low bandwidth, separate networks ..
Infinite bandwidth, convergence, ..
• Mobile telephony (voice) …………
Mobile/Wireless full multimedia
• Micro scale ………………………
Nano-scale
• Silicon based ….…………………
+ new materials
• eServices just emerging …………
Wide adoption (eHealth, eLearning, …)
•Only 5% of global population on-line
>70% of world-wide population on line
Ethics and IST - New challenges
IST today
“Ambient Intelligence” tomorrow
(Internet generation)
(post-Internet/ GSM generation)
• Cybercrime
GRID, embedded systems, bionic implants
• Privacy
• Internet child pornography ………………………….
•Manipulation and Control
• Copying of content and authors rights ….…………
• Medical data over the internet …
•Sense of Self and Personal Identity
•The digital divide
•Medical ethics
• Data protection
•Groups and Organisations
•Environmental concerns
Information Society and technology related
socio-economic research
• Trends and Challenges - IST technologies introduced new
research tools
• Data protection and Ethical issues. Increased difficulty
to verify authenticity, originality, reliability of data
• Intellectual property. Availability of digital material
makes plagiarism easier to carry out.
• ‘Public’ and ‘private’ information
• Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity
• -> Raises issues of international benchmarking/ common
approaches to socio-economic research, and ethical
guidelines
Professional and Ethical Guidelines for SERin the
Information Society
• October 2003 Workshop in Brussels
• DG INFSO/ DG Research/ other DGs
• RESPECT presentation of the emerging codes and
guidelines and use/ exploitation of the research
results
• User manual to European socio-economic
research
• Professional and Ethical Guidelines
• Discussion of how the guidelines being created by
RESPECT might be used by DG INFSO and DG
Research, and will contribute to the ECs socioeconomic activities and policies
For More Information
http://www.cordis.lu/rtd2002
http://www.cordis.lu/ist
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka2
http://europa.eu.int/comm/information_society/eeurope/
http://europa.eu.int
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/index_en.htm
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