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Local Digital Agenda

The  “DAE Goes Local” event in Brussels on 4/5th April started the debate about a Local Digital Agenda, and how the Digital Agenda Europe might be revised to provide more of a local element.

Output from that event is accessible at the DAE Goes Local website http://daegoeslocal.ning.com/ including a range of mindmaps from the Diner Pensant.

The questions are ?

What is a Digital Agenda? Is Digital relevant to local?

What are the key issues/challenges at local level? On what issues is ICT making a difference? What is being done to generate value from existing and planned ICT investments? Is ICT investment a luxury in times of austerity?

Please comment and join the debate.

 

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11 Responses to Local Digital Agenda

  1. Vin Sumner says:
    May 7, 2011 at 12:26 pm

    Manchester will also be creating a local digital agenda as we revise the Digital Strategy for the City Region which was first produced in 2008. In June we will start an open consultation on updating and enhancing the Digital Strategy and we will develop this through a local Manchester Digital Agenda.
    Dave Carter – d.carter@manchesterdda.com

  2. Vin Sumner says:
    May 7, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    The city of Ghent in Belgium will be one of the next to follow the example of Friesland and create a local digital agenda. This participative proces should also lead to suggestions for the digital agenda. Are other cities also doing this? If so please contact me so that we can work out a common proces. martine.delannoy@gent.be

  3. Vin Sumner says:
    May 9, 2011 at 10:22 pm

    A lot of time and effort is spent on planning the Physical Infrastructures of places, through the development of Masterplans and Blueprints. These provide for the overall direction for a place over the next 5-10, maybe more, years. They articulate where there will be public realm, what sites can be developed residentially or commercially; they show the transport structure and they provide some form of style or culture for the place. In addition, they will also comply with a number of development standards or guidelines.

    The same approach should now be applied to the development of Digital Spaces, as a “Place” with a planned digital infrastructure through the creation of Digital Plans. These will include next generation access or connectivity, but far more in terms of server farms ( like reservoirs of the past ) , the internet of things and of course skills. For example, all “Places” should be required to produce Digital Plans which comply with certain standards to show how the “Place” would use digital technology over the next 5 to 10 years to create an inclusive, accessible, flexible, low carbon Digital Space. Once such a Plan is agreed, its implementation would be through a mix of the market and public sector intervention. In addition, all major projects and programmes would be tested to see if they could contribute to fulfilling the Digital Plans, a sort of Digital Planning Gain.

    We are still at the start of the Digital revolution and over the coming years digital infrastructure will be as common place and as pervasive as today’s roads. Where today’s neighbourhoods have roads as the main communication routes, Digital Spaces will depend on digital connectivity. The advent of the “internet of things”, very high speed fixed and mobile communications , immersive environments, new forms of interfaces will all contribute to embedding Digital in all that we do, much of it unseen. We will then truly be living in Digital Spaces, hence it is important that we envision and plan in the same way as we do for our physical places.

  4. Vin Sumner says:
    May 16, 2011 at 10:24 pm

    New York announce their roadmap … is it a Local Digital Agenda http://gov20.govfresh.com/with-a-new-road-map-new-york-city-aims-to-be-nations-premier-digital-city/

  5. Vin Sumner says:
    May 17, 2011 at 3:05 pm

    How could we make use of sport to help drive local development. For example could football clubs encourage their fans to be green and earn some sort of ecopoints in a green league

  6. Vin Sumner says:
    May 18, 2011 at 8:52 am

    From DAE Goes Local

    Local Digital Agendas ( LDA’s) could become important structuring and binding tools for integral regional development. The LDA’s are not about pushing ICT, but will enable mechanisms for digital pull-strategies and value creation. Likewise the LDA’s are helpful to realize goals in different socio-economic sectors such as education, energy, health and social cohesion. This will all occur from a citizen and company point of view, to enhance a ‘fabric’ of local cooperation and collaborative creation. Generic elements will be enforced and developed in different structures and business models. Local developments can be connected through the LDA’s and help to create a thriving context. These elements can be technical (open-data platform) , organizational (open innovation and collaboration communities), mindset (culture, behavior) or even legal (one contract shop). This could all lead towards a New Regional Design utilizing new “common sense” principles. These principles such as collaboration, user driven approaches and transsectoral innovation are needed in a single European information society. The tools should be based on trust rather than command and control, open rather than walled.
    http://daegoeslocal.ning.com/

  7. Angelika Poth-Moegele says:
    May 18, 2011 at 4:54 pm

    Since 2005, the CEMR in cooperation with other relevant networks (ELANET) and partners engages in the implementation of the Digital Local Agenda (DLA), a strategic plan for good governance and the development of the information society in Europe’s municipalities, cities and regions, striving for e-Inclusion and fighting the digital divide.
    At the 5th EISCO 2005 conference, we started with a realistic analysis of the achievements and pitfalls in the implementation of e-Government and the Information Society and the final Cracow Declaration called for strong efforts in planning future developments at local level and for a stronger cooperation between local, regional, national and European authorities. Ten objectives were established and the Digital Local Agenda was launched: http://www.ccre.org/champs_activites_detail_news_en.htm?ID=529&idca=3126
    In April 2007, and at the 6th EISCO in Hämeenlinna, Finland, the Digital Local Agenda Manifesto was adopted, which established five priority areas and 28 action goals for the i2010 Digital Local Agenda:
    http://www.ccre.org/champs_activites_detail_news_en.htm?ID=1045&idca=3126
    EISCO 2008 in Naples, Italy, assed the progress of the Digital Local Agenda in Europe, its contribution to innovation, governance and e-Inclusion by means of digital networks and communication instruments. The conference presented the development of local networks and inter-regional cooperation to foster progress of the Digital Local Agenda; how innovative partnerships in the territory can stimulate demand for e-Services as well as their delivery through single points of access. http://www.ccre.org/champs_activites_detail_news_en.htm?ID=1428&idca=3126
    Finally, in 2010, the focus was on an emerging 2.0 web society and what that means for public authorities in their communication with their citizens, the way they provide their services, but also how this requires a change in skills and capacity of the politicians and people working in the administration. Furthermore, CEMR launched its “Manual on implementing strategies for local and regional eGovernment”: http://www.ccre.org/champs_activites_detail_news_en.htm?ID=1863&idca=3126
    CEMR is very pleased to see that the Local Digital Agenda and the Digital Agenda for Europe complement each other and looks forward to further contributing to this development.

  8. Liam.Sumner says:
    May 19, 2011 at 11:13 pm

    Interesting thoughts in the Digital Agenda Case Studies from Euclid Network can be found at http://www.local2020.eu/?p=1218. Take a look!

  9. Carles Flamerich says:
    May 20, 2011 at 11:27 am

    One of the important items of Digital Agenda is also which is the role of Public Administrations in ICT projects and how to help the economy to exit the crisis prepared for a new environment with better competitivity positions. That’s an important and strategic issue not just for politicians of ICTs, also to design other areas policies, how ICTs can help them to improve, be more efficient and effective.
    Now I believe we have an opportunitty to change the “way to do the things” and explore new ways to collaborate between public and private sector. We have less resources and we have to use them in clear targets, social and economic ones, but we have to use the agents to be sure that public contribution and private one re-inforces one to the other and 2+2 sum 5.
    Carles Flamerich Director General
    Directorate General for Telecommunications and the Information Society
    Government of Catalonia

  10. Liam.Sumner says:
    May 20, 2011 at 5:22 pm

    Further case studies can be viewed at http://www.esd.org.uk/esdtoolkit/Communities/EffectiveServiceDelivery/ContentView.aspx?ContentType=Content-509 (North Lincolnshire, Kent, Reading and Leicester)

    Also included are videos on eMentoring, eClinics, E-Champion and Virtual home.

  11. jamiyar says:
    May 21, 2011 at 4:19 pm

    No debemos olvidar el uso de las TIC,s en el entorno rural para hacer partcipes a sus habitantes del desarrollo tecnologico fomentando la formacion y la utilizacion de herramientas amigables y utiles .Las administraciones publicas deben liderar y/o impulsar proyectos que eviten el aislamiento tecnologico de quienes no tienen facil acceso a la tecnologia velando porque se les dote de las infraestructuras necesarias y apoyando proyectos que rompan la brecha digital y los conecte al mundo globalizado.

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