BALTIC IT&T 2005 FORUM: eBaltics Riga 8/4/2005 The @LIS Programme Linking Europe and Latin America...

BALTIC IT&T 2005 FORUM: eBalticsRiga 8/4/2005

The @LIS Programme

Linking Europe and Latin America on Information Society

Fabio NascimbeniMENON Network

@LIS International Stakeholders Network


This presentation

3 slides on the @LIS Programme

3 slides presenting examples of 3 @LIS projects

3 slides on @LIS ISN and on how to be involved


@LIS background

With respect to Latin America, the EU is the first donor, the first foreign investor, the second trade partner.

Information Society has been identified by the EC as a priority sector for region-wide economic cooperation with Latin America (Rio 1999, Madrid 2002, Guadalajara 2004)

@LIS was launched in 2002 as a 4 years programme with a total budget of 85M€ (80% funded by the EC)


The @LIS Programme - Objectives

stimulating co-operation between European and Latin-American partnersfacilitating the integration Latin-American countries in a global information societypromoting dialogue between all actors and users of the information society and increasing interconnection between Research & Development communities of both regionsmeeting the needs of local communities and citizens


The @LIS Programme - Structure

19 demostration projects (e-learning and cultural diversity, e-government, e-health, e-inclusiuon)

two dialogues and three networksPolitical and regulatory dialogue (CEPAL)Dialogue on the standards (ETSI)Network of regulators (REGULATEL)Network of researchers (ALICE)Networks of stakeholders (@LIS ISN)


The @LIS Programme - State of the art

All the @LIS projects have started and are in the middle of their lifecycle, involving 214 organizations (103 from EU & 111 from LA)

All EU and LA ICT policy makers have been sensibilized and activated

More than 5000 researchers, developers, providers from EU and LA have expressed an interest, taken part in @LIS events and presented proposals

More than 1200 actors are involved in the collaborative work of the @LIS community (www.alis-online.org)


An @LIS project:


@LIS potentially interested actors

@LIS excluded actors

@LIS Programme

How to be involved? @LIS ISN

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What does @LIS ISN do

Observation activities: Map of the Information Society in EU and LA, Map of funding opportunities for cooperation, IS Plans analysis

Virtual Communities of practice: thematic aggregation, collaborative work & learning, virtual communities articulation, experts groups, knowledge brokerage, events organisation

i-Twinning: exchanges among civil society actors

High Level EU-LA Ministerial For a on IS: Lima, Rio…

Sustainability support: workshops in LA, international networking (UN, CEPAL, UNESCO, etc)


To get updated information on the @LIS projects, results and on general EU-LA developments in ISTo promote your organisation, your projects, your network in LA and in EuropeTo participate in events, online working groups, publications preparation, etc.To connect your community of practices with similar groups in the fieldTo discover collaboration opportunities and to enlarge your area of action

Why to be involved?


How to be involved?


For more info

www.alis-online.org

[email protected]

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