Best eEurope Practices 5 th framework, IST programs prof. habil. dr. Narimantas Kazimieras...

Best eEurope Practices5th framework, IST programs

www.beep-eu.orgwww.BeepKnowledgeSystem.org

prof. habil. dr. Narimantas Kazimieras PaliulisVilnius Gediminas Technical University

Aims of the eEurope Initiative


1. ensuring all European citizens, users and businesses get online

2. creating a digitally literate Europe

3.ensuring that the whole process is socially and regionally inclusive.

Aims of the BEEP


”Whatever the challenge, the probability is that somewhere, someone has alredy overcome it. Such is the dynamic of our rapidly evolving Information Society.”

New technologies, such as computers and the Internet, affect everybody. We need to adapt our lives, organisations and businesses to meet the many chalanges posed by thesetechnologies and their impact on living and working.

Network economy/society challenge


TransformationBest (good) practice

Take-up Network economy/society

Readiness

Potential useAccessAffordabilityTech infrastructureSociety infrastructure

Intensity

TransactionsRe-engineeringStructures/networksOrganisationPoliciesSkills/competencies

Impact

EfficiencyEffectivenessProductivityInclusionSustainabilityEquity

?Societal impact

number of adopters

Overall aims of Beep


•Sharing the knowledge embedded in existing activities (i.e. cases, studies, documented experiences, etc.) by developing Internet-based tools and services for benchlearning

•Addressing the eEurope initiative’s needs for learning lessons and applying them: “learning from the best in Europe . . . And applying the open method of coordination and benchmarking”.

•Assistance to users in learning from the successes and mistakes of others.

Benchlearning, learning practice and communities of practice


Benchmarking -- is essentially a process of measurement or comparison. It identifies the gap between the user’s own performance (if known) and the best (good) performance available.Best (good) practice -- is essentially a qualitative description of how the good performance has been achieved; i.e. which methods, tools, organisation, systems, technology, etc., have been used, how they have been used and with which effects.Benchlearning -- is a relatively new approach which combines the technique of benchmarking with the practical application of knowledge management and organisational learning.Learning practice -- Beep’s approach which provides a large number of good cases (both benchmarked and described), plus learning templates, as inputs to the benchlearning process

Beep’s contribution to benchlearning


1 Identify areas needing improvement and agree action2 Set up effective learning team3 Analyse present situation4 Learning and inspiration from good examples

BEEP’s learning practice: benchmarking, good practice and learning templates5 Develop new solutions6 Effect improvements7 Follow-up and new initiativesSource: “Benchlearning” by B. Karlöf, K. Lundgren, M.E. Froment, John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

Beep Knowledge System =


•A database of good ”best” practices from which you can learn.

•All highly structured and codified

•Will contain approx. 450 – 500 cases. 150 cases from EU Countries

•Advanced search facilities

Beep domains: work and commerce in the Knowledge Economy


1) Work and Skills – focus on individuals, how they work, the skills they need and how work is organised inside the company/organisation:improving skills and competenciesimproving work structures and processesimproving the quality of working life

2) The digital SME – focus on the company as a digital unit in the knowledge economy:

building networks promoting innovation using resources exploiting the market

Beep domains: the need for an Information Society for all


3) Social Inclusion – focus on the social digital divide and how it can be

mitigated:

facilitating access to ICT

improving education and training

helping disadvantaged groups

raising awareness

4) Regional Development – focus on the new role of areas in promoting both wealth and welfare

for their businesses and inhabitants:

developing regional identity and structures (including e-government)

promoting regional economic development

supporting regional social cohesion

ensuring environmental sustainability

Project membersCoordinator:Danish Technological Institute (DTI), Denmark.

Partners:1. RAND Europe (RAND), the Netherlands;2. Martech International (Martech), Belgium;3. Telefónica Investigación y Desarrollo (TID), Spain;4. Nomisma, Italy; 5. Empirica, Germany.

New Accession State Partners: 1. Institute of Economics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences – BAS;2. IEBASNetU Consultants – NETU;3. Czech University of Agriculture - Faculty of Economics and

Management - CUA-FEM;4. TREBAG Property and Project Management Ltd. – TREBAG;5. Vilnius Gediminas Technical University – VGTU;6. ASM - Market Research and Analysis Centre – ASM;7. Centre for Urban and Regional Sociology -- CURS-SA;8. Technical University of Košice – TUK;9. A.L.P. PECA d.o.o. - ALP PECA;

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