Social Engineering to Increase Social Capital

www.etampere.fi

eTampere aims high

• The objective of the eTampere information society programme is to make Tampere the spearhead city of information society development

• by strengthening the knowledge base• by creating new business • by developing new public online services that ease

the daily life of all citizens

Active citizens, innovative business

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eOrigins in the eEurope initiative

• bringing every citizen, home, school, enterprise and administrative body into the network environment

• creating a Europe of digital skills and entrepreneurial spirit

• ensuring that everyone has an opportunity to be part of the information society

The technology-oriented stage is over. Citizens want

information and applications that make their lives simpler

and better. Here and now, not just in the future.

eTampere is a new type of marriage between Business, Government and University

• promoting cooperation between enterprise, research, education and the public sector so that the information society will become a natural part of everyday life for all citizens, without discrimination

Local, regional, national, international

PartnersCity of TampereUniversity of TampereTampere University ofTechnologyTampere TechnologyCentre LtdVTT

Partners in cooperationPolytechnics and othereducational establishmentsCentres of ExpertiseEnterprisesAssociationsSurrounding municipalitiesInternational partners

ICT

TAMPERE INFOCOM (ICT - & MEDIA) CLUSTER

RESEARCH&EDUCATION

USERS

Publics ervices

Hospitals ,Schools ,

Adminis tration ,Others ...

CompaniesIndus try ,Banks ,

Mobile office ,Education , ...

Hous eholdsBank Services ,

Telework ,Dis tance learning ,

Information , Retrieval , ...

TUT Software Sys tems

TelecommunicationsSignal Processing

SemiconductorElectronics ...

TPU, PirPUMedia Production / -Art

Information Tech .Digit . / Multimedia ...

UTA Information Studies

HypermediaJournalism & Mass media

Computer Science...

PRODUCERS

HARDWARE & COMPONENTS

SOFTWARE

GENERAL S YS TEMS

DMI, VRC, W3C

ISI, eBRC

VTT,

RELabTC of EXPERTISE

eTampere

Program

VTTAutomation

Information technology

TELECOMMUNICATION & MEDIA NETWORKS

MEDIA & NEW MEDIA

VAECT

OTHERS

SERVICES & COMMERCE

Local Innovation System – The Tampere Model

Tampere BusinessDevelopment Strategy

Coordinationand Financing

Biomaterials

DigitalSignalProcessingDMI

Mobile and Water

Hydraulics

Opto-electronics

ORC

Hypermedia VCR

MediaTampere Ltd

Finn-MediResearch Ltd

TampereTechnologycentre

Tourism IndustryInnovationsand Products

TampereConvention

Bureau

Professia Ltd

World Class Research and Development

Specialised Strategic CompaniesCentre of Expertise Programme

Information Society Research

eTampereprogramme

BioneXt Tampereprogramme

Health Technology

Tourism

Media

ICT

Mechanical Engineeringand Automation

KIBS

The mode of operation• The programme is implemented by six independent subprogrammes, which cooperate with each other and various other players.

• The programme as a whole is coordinated and marketed by the eTampere office. The strategic vision and monitoring of activities are the responsibility of the steering group.• Policy-making for and monitoring of the practical work is carried out by the executive committee.

• A five-year programme for the years 2001-2005• Targeted total volume of projects 132 million euros• 20 % seed funding from the City of Tampere

• Technology engine programmes (TUT/Digital Media Institute)• Research & Evaluation Laboratory, RELab (VTT)• eBusiness Research Center, eBRC (TUT, UTA)• eAccelerator (Tampere Technology Centre Ltd)• Information Society Institute, ISI (UTA)• Infocity (City of Tampere)

Subprogrammes

Research & Evaluation Laboratory, RELab Produces easy-to-use services for everyday life and test environments for the production, development and evaluation of services.

Technology engine programmes Bring top expertise for the use of enterprises through high-quality research. Adaptive software components, User interfaces, Perception of information, Neoreality, Broadband data transfer

eBusiness Research Center, eBRC Produces research-based and practical expertise related to electronic business for the use of enterprises and the public sector, acts as a matchmaker for researchers, companies, organizations and financers.

eAccelerator Shoots companies with unique, high-technology-based ideas onto the international growth path. There are currently nine companies growing in the accelerator.

Information Society Institute, ISI Through multidisciplinary research, development and educational activities, forwards the building of an information society based on active citizenship and the development of its daily practices.

Infocity Makes Tampere a model city of information society by developing practical online services and by improving the citizens’ skills to use them.

eTampere and the four dimensions of information society

Technical Social

Financial

Cultural

eAccelerator

Tecnology engine programmes

RELab

Infocity

ISI

eBRC

Areas of emphasis in 2003

Active, participating and influential citizenship• increasing opportunities for influence and participation• eTampere card• new possibilities for communal spirit and operation

Developing expertise and business development• eTampere business service• mobile technologies, services and content

Development of service innovations• Support for and development of service processes with information and communication

technologies• customer-oriented approach, active customership, multifarious productionship

More in-depth international cooperation• Sixth Framework Programme• St Petersburg cooperation

Concrete services that improve the productivity of public services and transfer technology innovations into services for citizens, implemented based on business logic.

Achievements of eTampere so far• The programme advances according to plan (project portfolio 52 million euros,

realization rate 114 %)• The proportion of finance from enterprises and international sources has increased in

total funding• Capital investment exceeds 9.5 million euros• Ca. 400 researchers and more than 150 enterprises participate in over 100 eTampere

projects. 11 international projects.• Information Society Observatory, which aims to produce high-quality social-scientific

research on information society• WLAN Hämeenkatu and digital TV user studies• Smart home – from pilot to mass product• W3C – Finnish regional office in Tampere• 9 accelerator companies, several companies in pre-accelerator• SME service model –from fax-mode to e-era• 2500 people trained onboard the Netti-Nysse Internet bus, almost 20 000 visitors• More than 4 000 citizens trained with training funding• eTampere card, a new key to services• New public online services developed. Total eservice map created for the city. The city

website visited more than two million times a month• Several extensive international and national seminars (eGlobal, eBRF, Spearhead

network seminar etc.)• New culture of cooperation among stakeholders

eTampere builds a humanly sustainable information society

eTampere is critical but curious, daring but humble,

a builder of the new that respects the old.