CM Parallel session B2(M. Le Louarn, INFSO D5/DE sector)

Expected economic impacts of DE on regional development:

the critical mass phase

Rapporteur: Mary Darking, London School of Economics and Political Science,

DBE integrated project

Identifying Expected Impacts

• Identifying main types of stakeholders involved & individual impacts expected on each type

• Identifying global impacts from:– the juxtaposition of individual impacts for all different

stakeholders/– not only direct impacts, but also indirect ones (impacts

chains, vicious/virtuous circles, holistic effects) – in particular bridging micro/macro levels, different

local/regional territories with differing scopes/goals/ strategies, involving differing sectors and interactions?

Assessing Expected Impacts

• Assessing individual impacts on the types of stakeholders - & their “value” (direct and indirect, tangibles and intangibles)

• Assessing the global impacts– the aggregation of direct impacts – impacts chain (indirect impacts)

• And assessing their value (to the different types of direct - and indirect - stakeholders)

Prime targeted stakeholders for regions interested in DE?

• User SMEs (to be enabled across the digital divide)– For increased individual competitiveness,

widened market access, and increased services to their own customers

– For cooperation/networking with other related/potential business partners

– To provide new/further added value through static or dynamic cooperations (service chains)

Prime targeted stakeholders for regions interested in DE?

• Local ICT providers (including SMEs) which help User SMEs to cross the digital divide:– (much?) enlarged SME-customer market,

geographic and (cross-?) sectoral– Cooperation between ICT providers: setting

up jointly added-value services for their user SMEs, increased global competitiveness?

• How to identify expected impacts in a given region in

view of its DE deployment strategy?

• How to identify when critical mass is reached - and start to have global effects which can be assessed?

• At that stage, how to assess the actual impacts in a given region (identifying if to what extent the various expectations are met?)

• How to assess global value of impacts (direct & indirect, tangible and intangibles?) to different stakeholders?

Focus initial discussion on: