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Objectives
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Outputs
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CSFs
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- Reduce
internet access costs for households
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- Faster
increase of internet penetration in low-income households
- Higher
percentage of digitally literate people in Europe
- Facilitation
of flexible work arrangements (part time home-working)
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- Economic
viability of tariff models
- Greater
competition in the local access networks (?)
- Level
of competition among ISPs and IAPs
- Local
internet access nodes in all regions
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- Increase
the number of public internet access points
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- Stimulate
interest of non-users by increasing ‘visibility’ of the net
- Affordable
internet access for low-income groups
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- Digitisation
of public libraries and community centres
- Active
co-operation and public-private partnerships
- Commitment
of local administrations and governments to set up access points
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- Implementation
and usage of digital technologies in schools
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- Improved
quality of school education in Europe and thus skills of future workforce
- New
ways of teaching methods directed toward requirements for life-long
learning
- Stimulation
of interest of youths in ICTs (as a means of addressing the skills gap
in the labour market)
- More
citizens equipped with the skills needed to live and work in the information
society
- Establishment
of public-private partnerships
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- Availability
of financial resources to purchase equipment (IT, network access)
- Low
cost systems for network maintenance at school
- Establish
and disseminate models for public-private partnerships
- Promotion
of ‘best practices’ how to implement new technologies
- Implementation
of ‘teach the teacher’ programmes (requirement of new pedagogical
methodologies/teaching skills)
- Adapting
teacher education curricula to the requirements of the information society
- Adapt
school curricula to enable new ways of learning using ICT
- Availability
of high-quality digital content for education
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- Create
equal digital opportunities for women
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- ICT
training and information schemes addressing the special needs of women
- Improved
opportunities for re-employment of women
- Increased
employment rate of women
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- Commitment
of public employment offices (e.g. for funding training schemes)
- Acceptance
of the ‘design’ of special programmes in target group
- Child
care provision whilst women are participating in training/programmes
- Well
developed work-family policies, including the provision of sufficient
child care places
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- Improve
the computer and internet literacy among elderly people
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- Increased
skills basis required for using advanced services such as tele-supported
home care
- Better
opportunities to bridge the 'generation gap'
- Facilitated
communication between elderly people and distant relatives
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- Active
co-operation with interest groups representing elderly people
- Co-operation
with retirement homes
- Improvements
in ICT usability
- Affordability
of services
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- Facilitate
social inclusion of ethnic minorities and ‘non-nationals’
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- Creation
of e-Government services addressing particularly the problems of minorities
and non-nationals
- Creation
of ‘virtual communities’ strengthening the ties among cultural/ethnic
groups
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- Accompanying
measures to facilitate local integration of non-nationals
- Opportunities
for low-cost local language training
- Motivation
of minority group to learn local language
- Level
of internet access and digital literacy within target group(s)
- High
level of local e-democracy
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- Support
people with disabilities using digital technologies
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- Better
information about existing solutions, products and services
- Development
of new communication interfaces/improved usability of existing interfaces
- Improved
conditions for social integration of people with special needs
- Increased
employability of people with mobility restrictions
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- Regulatory
framework requiring accessibility to tele-matics products and services
for persons with disabilities
- Funding
schemes for development of innovative services and user interfaces
- Affordability
of services
- Establishment
and publication of ‘design for all’ standards
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- Increase
the empirical knowledge base about the development and impact of the
‘digital divide’
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- Provision
of empirical databases for further R&D activities
- Provision
of policy planning tools to decide on priorities for actions and programmes
- Provision
of policy evaluation tools to assess the progress achieved
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- Definition
and wide acceptance of a basic methodological framework (indicators)
to define and measure the ‘digital divide’
- Implementation
of this framework by supranational statistical organisations
- Regular
surveys to gather the required data
- Co-ordination
of parallel initiatives directed toward similar objectives
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- Raise
awareness for the importance of further ICT based measures against social
exclusion
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- ‘Best
practice’ initiatives facilitating replication of these practices
in other regions
- Encouragement
of governments and interest groups to provide information society services
for citizens
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- Provide
specific information focusing on the value added for the target group
rather than deliver general messages
- Define
clear objectives for awareness raising campaigns
- Combine
awareness measures with practical proposals for follow-up activities
(e.g. opportunities to participate in seminars, initiatives)
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Key objective
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Action lines
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Actions
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BEEP domain coverage
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- A
cheaper, faster and secure internet
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- Cheaper
and faster internet access
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- Achieve
significant reductions in internet access tariffs
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- Investing
in people and skills
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- European
youth into the digital age
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- Investing
in people and skills
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- Working
in the knowledge based economy
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- Set
up public internet access points in public spaces
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- Investing
in people and skills
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- Participation
for all in the knowledge-based economy
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- Investing
in people and skills
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