MAP-IT!KNOWLEDGE MAPPING OF IT COMPETENCIES IN THE

MEDITERRANEAN REGION AND DIALOGUE FOSTERING

29th July 2007 – Damascus, Syria

MAP-IT! Information Day27th July 2007

Alberto Sciuto - INNOVA

Index of presentation

• MAP-IT! project intro and objectives

• Project expected results

• Project consortium

• Project workplan

• Methodologies used in MAP-IT!

• Synergies with IST project MED-IST

• Initial activities (Questionnaire)

• Benefits for you

Why the MED region?

• MED countries in comparison with other worldwide regions lag behind in ICT adoption but offer great potential that needs to be uncovered and disseminated to promote research collaboration and co-operation

• A majority of MED countries are demonstrating a strong effort in defining their national ICT development policies following a period when most MED governments never had a focused policy mainframe

• With the EU-Mediterranean Partnership as the main EU initiative, EU has expressed deep interest and laid out significant funding in furthering research relations in the MED area

MAP-IT! & EU

• MAP-IT! directly addresses the Information Society Technologies (IST) Strategic Objective 2.6.5/2 International Co-operation SSA

• “to contribute to a global strategy aiming to identify, including through appropriate awareness raising measures and dialog with broad communities, the partners (countries or regions) with whom Europe needs to focus collaboration, the common objectives of collaboration and, in each case,its rationale”

MAP-IT! objectives

• To map the competencies in the Mediterranean IST arena, as corresponding to the strategic objectives of the IST programme

• To raise awareness within the Mediterranean IT community about co-operation opportunities within the IST programme

MAP-IT! overall expected results

• The project will end up with three results:• 1) Reasoned and qualified mapping of industrial IST related

innovation structure of the target countries, identifying players in the ICT industrial arena

• 2) Selection of key target players towards which awareness activities in the area of opportunities offered by EC 7th Framework Programme will be launched, putting forth the ground for future joint co-operation activities

• 3) Launch of a dialogue process with identified groups of players (companies, universities, districts, technology parks) that can represent promising partners for joint R&D initiatives with Europe, through workshops and training sessions

MAP-IT! Consortium• Consortium composed of four types of partners:

– Institutional players from MED countries• ITIDA (Egypt)

• Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology (Tunisia)

– Scientific/research experts• L’Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah de Fès (Morocco)

– International education, science, culture and communication promoter

• UNESCO

– Consultancies from Europe• Cybion – Project Coordinator (Italy and France)

• Innova (Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland)

• Euroquality (France)

MAP-IT! workplan

• Project consists of 3 phases– Data collection on MED target countries to gain

current “macroeconomic” view (innovation policy, social, political, economic) of existing situation in MED targeted countries and to take a “snapshot” of the industrial and research environment of each MED country in specific IST areas.

– Data analysis, results consolidation, knowledge map creation of MED stakeholders

– Dissemination, awareness and dialogue creation to foster future cooperation

Workpackage flow

WP1Methodology

definition

WP2Data Collection

WP3Mapping

implementation

WP4Database and on-line tools

WP5Awareness

raising

Target countries

• Algeria• Egypt• Jordan• Lebanon• Morocco• Palestinian Authority• Syria• Tunisia

Results per target country

• Mapping of competencies: identify key technology areas and ICT players

• Position Papers: country needs and proposals for cooperation

• Awareness raising and training

• Launch dialogue among MED players

Results per target countryMapping

• Mapping of competencies: identify key technology areas through– knowledge mapping techniques– questionnaires

• Regional webportal on MED research players in ICT fields

• Definition of the mapping profiling procedure– Who are our targets for the mapping?

• Definition of the benchmarking procedure– What are the “excellence indicators” that can define an ICT

stakeholder?

• Organisation of Working Groups and Expert Panels– Mapped MED ICT stakeholders to be evaluated by independent panel

of research and industry experts– MAP-IT! partners to make final selections

• Database insertion– MAP-IT! database is sortable, searchable by various fields (geographic

area, ICT focus, typology of stakeholder, etc.)

Methodology in Detail

• Adoption of a benchmarking exercise – Originally applied to the Innovation Relay Centres Network (IRCs)

throughout 2001 – 2006– Applied methodological tool: IVEM Benchmarking Cycle

• Identification• Validation• Engineering• Monitoring

– The model will be tailored to the context of MAP-IT!

Benchmarks Identification

Benchmarks Engineering

Benchmarks Monitoring

Benchmarks Validation

Operative procedure

IVEM applied to MAP-IT!

• Identification– Data acquisition through Desk research + Questionnaire mailing

• Validation– Validating and deepening the collected information on the

organisations resulted to be excellent

• Engineering– Transfer of the collected data to the project database, searchable

by different search criteria

• Monitoring– Verifying if the conditions (internal + external) that classified an

organisation as excellent remained true in a given period of time

• More than 2.000 MED ICT stakeholders

• Target: 4.000

• Questionnaires will be sent to enrich their profiles and gather more information on ICT-related strategies and experiences

• Database to be made public this summer in synch with full website launch

Current status: database

Questionnaire

Section A) GENERAL INFORMATION

a. Organisation contact details Legal name: Address: City: Postcode: Phone: Fax: Email: Website address:

b. Reference Person contact details Surname: Name: Title: Phone: Fax: e-mail:

c. Organisation type SME1 Large Company University Research and Development Centre Other entities, please specify: ______ _______

d. Year of establishment

1 From January 1st 2005 new parameters have been set up for defining a small and medium-sized enterprise (SME):The Definition of SME as set out in the Commission Recommendation C (2003) 1422 final of 06/05/2003: The category of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is made up of enterprises which employ fewer than 250 persons and which have an annual turnover not exceeding 50 million euro, and/or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding 43 million euro.

Questionnaire available within project info provided by ITIDA

e. Number of employees 0 – 9 10 – 49 50 – 149 150 – 249 ≥ 250

f. Annual turnover ≤ 50 million € > 50 million €

g. Annual balance sheet total ≤ 43 million € > 43 million €

h. Legal status Private Public Other, please specify: _ __________________

i. Business Area (tick as appropriate) Hardware production/ assembly Software development ICT Services Provision ICT Solution provision and System integration

j. Level of interest in International Cooperation R&D Activities/ EU projects (tick one)

Low Medium High

k. Previous international cooperation experiences

With EU countries With Mediterranean countries With other countries, please specify: ________ None

Section B) R&D ACTIVITIES

a. Type of research (tick as appropriate)

Basic Applied Both

b. Capabilities in ICT domain (tick as appropriate by rating

from 0 to 3)1

1) Pervasive and trusted network and service infrastructures

The network of the future 0 1 2 3 Service and software architectures, infrastructures and

engineering 0 1 2 3 ICT in support of the networked enterprise

0 1 2 3 Secure, dependable and trusted infrastructures

0 1 2 3 Networked media 0 1 2 3 New paradigms and experimental facilities

0 1 2 3 Critical infrastructure protection 0 1 2 3

2) Cognitive systems, interaction and robotics

Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics Broadband Technologies 0 1 2 3

3) Components, systems and engineering Next generation nanoelectronics components and

electronics integration 0 1 2 3 Organic and large-area electronics and display systems

0 1 2 3 Embedded systems design 0 1 2 3 Computing systems 0 1 2 3 Photonic components and subsystems 0 1 2 3 Micro/nanosystems 0 1 2 3 Networked embedded and control systems

0 1 2 3

1 0 = No capability; 1 = Low capability; 2 = Medium capability; 3 = High capability

[1] 0 = No capability; 1 = Low capability; 2 = Medium capability; 3 = High capability

1) Digital libraries and content Digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning

0 1 2 3 Intelligent content and semantics 0 1 2 3

2) Sustainable and personalised healthcare

Personal health systems for monitoring and point-of-care diagnostics 0 1 2 3

Advanced ICT for risk assessment and patient safety 0 1 2 3

Virtual physiological human 0 1 2 3

3) Mobility, environmental sustainability and energy efficiency

ICT for the intelligent vehicles and mobility services 0 1 2 3

ICT for cooperative systems 0 1 2 3 ICT for environmental management and energy

efficiency 0 1 2 3

4) Independent living and inclusion ICT and ageing 0 1 2 3 Accessible and inclusive ICT 0 1 2 3

Section C) SOME QUANTITATIVE DATA SPECIFIC TO YOUR ORGANISATION1

1) Total number of research projects/ product development2

2) Total number of researchers3/ product development managers

3) Percentage of R&D investment of total revenue %

4) Total number of filed patents

5) Total number of Spin-offs

6) Total number of publications4 (national/ international)

7) Number of specialisation fields

8) Total number of research projects/ product development in cooperation with domestic organisations or institutions

9) Total number of research projects/ product development in cooperation with non-domestic organisations or institutions

10) Total number of expatriate researchers/ product developers

11) Total number of researchers/ product developers coming from foreign countries through exchange programmes

12) Export share %

13) Share of foreign direct investment %

1 Period of reference: most recent annual data but no more than 5 years old (2002)

2 Product development is here intended in a wider sense: advice, application, etc. 3 Researchers but also PhD students and Professors

4 Publications are intended here in a wide sense: white papers, seminars papers, conference papers, etc.

[1] Period of reference: most recent annual data but no more than 5 years old (2002)[2] Product development is here intended in a wider sense: advice, application, etc.[3] Researchers but also PhD students and Professors[4] Publications are intended here in a wide sense: white papers, seminars papers, conference papers, etc.

Target players

• Typologies of key actors to be detected:– SMEs (our primary target)– Representatives from ICT industrial players (our primary

target)– Industrial associations/chambers of commerce– Intermediary organisations– Technology & Science Parks (MED-IST primary target for

mapping)– Universities and research centres (MED-IST primary target for

mapping)

• Sample of organisations– Identification of ca. 500 key players per country and 4.000 key

players in all 8 countries

Final goal: 50 identified IT excellence organisations per country

• Country needs and proposals for cooperation through:– Mapping results analysis– Working Groups– Expert panels

• Identify 5 technology areas

• Input for cooperation and matching

Results per target countryPosition papers

• Press releases

• Promotion of the website

• Website content implementation

• Workshops and Events participation

• Blog creation

• Set up cooperation opportunities for the VII Framework Programme

Results per target countryAwareness raising & dialogue launch

Clustering with IST project MED-IST

Objectives Tools• Creation of synergies for workshops organisation

• Sharing of attendees mailing list• Reciprocal invitation • Joint organisation of some events

• Joint preparation of newsletter • Single newsletter with merged content from the two consortia

• Exchange of information on stakeholders and mapping results

• Intermediary results information exchange on stakeholders identification and mapping results

• Joint on line presentation of mapping results

• Mapping results displayed in a harmonised way on a web portal

Final Objective Become a reference point for EU-MED cooperation

Clustering with IST project MED-ISTMAP-IT! MED-IST

FP7 operations-specific: aims at identifying IST strategic objectives common to both EU and MED regions and train entities from the MED countries on how to participate in FP7 in the context of these objectives

Policy-oriented aimed at developing IST Research Policy Agendas for MED countries and establishing co-operation platforms between these countries and EU for FP7 and beyond

Target population: IT industry and market Target population: Academia and research

Target of mentoring/tutoring workshops: mainly intermediaries and multipliers, e.g. chambers of commerce, business/professional associations

Target of workshops:  directly address all target populations of project

Coverage of workshops: widest possible coverage of intermediaries and multipliers

Coverage of workshops: direct focus on stakeholders selected in mapping and consultation phases

Mapping tools: Desk research using state-of-the-art electronic means completed by a questionnaire survey and telephone interviews

Mapping tools: “On-the-field” surveying (questionnaires and face-to-face interviews)

Workshop timetable

Dates Location

27 July 2007 Beriut, Lebanon

29 July 2007 Damascus, Syria

5 July 2007 Fez, Morocco

7 July 2007 Algiers, Algeria

July 2007 (TBC) Tunisia

Betw. Jan & Feb 2008 Pal Auth

Betw. Jan & Feb 2008 Jordan

Benefits for you

• Be highlighted and published as one of the 50 selected ICT stakeholders per research area

• Visibility of your company to EU and other MED stakeholders

• Participate in blog platform to create dialogue between researchers and IT experts

• Receive full information on the FP7 and ICT Workprogramme

• Learn how to participate to EU ICT funding calls for proposal

THANK YOU!

MAP-IT! EU CONTACT POINTProject coordinator: Rina Angeletti

Project officer: James Goldstein

Cybion Srl

Via della Scrofa, 117

00186 - Rome (Italy)

Tel (+39) 06.6865 975

Fax (+39) 06.6880 6997

Website: http://www.cybion.com/fr/it

MAP-IT! MED CONTACT POINT Dr. Sherif Hashem

Executive Vice President

Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA).

Building B5

Smart Village

Cairo-Alex Desert Road 28th KM

Giza, Egypt 12577

Tel. +20-2-5345151Fax. +20-2-5345150E-mail. shashem@mcit.gov.eg

http://www.itida.gov.eg/

http://www.map-it-med.eu