Transcript The GNKS concept

Introduction to
GNKS Consult
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Vision
• Vision: the world is changing, rapidly, into a Global Networked
Knowledge Society (GNKS). Understanding this is crucial for policy
makers and strategists, as their aim is to take decisions that will
impact the future. In order to better understand in what ways that
future might develop and how to develop policies and strategies with
sustainable impact, insight in the concepts underlying GNKS is key.
• Mission: Inform policy makers and strategists by addressing specific
challenges building on the insights that come with the understanding
of GNKS
• Why work with GNKS Consult:
• Build on excellence in understanding the issues GNKS
• Have a home market in DG INFSO that allows further development of that
excellence
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GNKS:
• Global
• Location of production and markets
• Access to information and communication
• Networked
• Social and economic networks
• Communication networks
• Knowledge
• Increasing amount of information on line
• Growing ability to access and process it
• Society
• It’s all about people, stupid!
• Sustainability from social, economic and environmental
perspective
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The organisation
• GNKS Consult is an independent private company,
registered under number 24396166 at the Rotterdam
Chamber of Commerce since May 2006
• GNKS is conducting research and consultancy on its
own, and in partnership with appropriate partners,
depending on the challenge. It has partnership
arrangements with the Danish Technology Institute
(Aarhus, DK) and RAND Europe (Cambridge, UK)
• GNKS brings together a set of world class associated
policy researchers, including those explicitly listed on the
website
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Core competences
• Technology impact assessment, including foresight,
scenario based analysis, etc
• IS policy preparation through foresight, ex ante and ex
post evaluation
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Information Security: Trust, privacy, identity, CIP
eInclusion
eGovernment
Sustainable development
Global governance issues
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The networks
• GNKS has clients in Brussels, UK and the
Netherlands
• GNKS has access to client- and research
networks in Europe and the United States
• GNKS has experience with Information
Society policy work in Europe, USA and
the Middle East
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