Builds the Well-being of the Future

mia.lumio@etampere.fi

www.etampere.fi

Tampere Urban Region in Brief• Founded 1779 with free trade rights

• Finland’s second largest urban region

• 300 000 inhabitants, growth rate 1% per year

• 2 universities, 2 polytechnic universities

• 3 technology centres

• Centre of culture, education and knowledge intensive businesses

1974 NMT phone call 1978 bank automat 1984 bioresorbable implant - Bionx 1985 electro-mechanical film (EMFi) 1988 micro-crystallized chitosan - Novasso 1991 GSM phone call 1993 analog Cellular Data Card - Nokia 1994 GSM Data Card - Nokia 1995 walking forest harvester - Timberjack 1995 Internet call - Sonera 1996 Personal Digital Assistant - Nokia Communicator 1997 Data Suite - Nokia 1997 GSM Card Phone 1998 digital X-ray - Imix 1999 WAP Server and WLAN – Nokia

2002 Internet Sauna

FIRST IN THE WORLD

Tampere, Finland

ICT

INFOCOM (ICT- & MEDIA) CLUSTER OF TAMPERE 2001

+ labourRESEARCH &

EDUCATION ~1 500USERS

Public servicesHospitals,Schools,

Administration,Others...

CompaniesIndustry,Banks,

Mobile office,Education, ...

HouseholdsBank Services,

Telework,Distance learning,

Information, Retrieval, ...

TUT Software Systems

TelecommunicationsSignal Processing

SemiconductorElectronics ...

TPU, PirPU Media Production / -Art

Information Tech.Digit. / Multimedia ...

UTA Information Studies

HypermediaJournalism & Mass media

Computer Science...

PRODUCERS ~ 10 000/14000/15500

HARDWARE & COMPONENTS

~ 1400

SOFTWARE ~ 3100

GENERAL SYSTEMS~ 1000

Nokia,TietoEnator, Vertex

TN-Systems, Analyste,Liinos/delectia , Stonesoft, Solteq,

Almare Systems, Sensor Sw Cons.,

WM-Data Cons., Opus Capita, Tietonauha, INA Group,

Commit, NovoGroup/Citisoft, Fysio-Data, SecGo, F-Secure

Omnitele...

Instrumentointi , Valmet

automation, Patria Finavitec

FlextronicsVLSI Solution,

Smartech, Pikotec, Finnelpro, Elektrobit

Coherent Tutcore, CPS-elektroniikka

Xortex,...

Nokia, Sonera, Elisa & Soon, Tellabs, Telia, YLE/TV2 , TelestePatria Ailon, Tahoe, Kaukoverkko Ysi..

DM

I, VR

C,

W3C

ISI, eBRC

VTT,

RELab

TC of E

XPERTISE

eTam

pere

Pro

gram

VTT Automation

Information technology

TELECOMMUNICATION & MEDIA NETWORKS ~ 4500

MEDIA & NEW MEDIA ~ 4000

YLE/TV2, Alma Media, TTV , TV-Tampere, local radios, localnewspapers, printing plants ...

Satama Tampere, TJ-Group, IconMedialab, Infosto, Abako Media, Wysiwyg&PortAble, Mediaclick, NiceFactory, CapNova, Tampere Film Festivals, Adv. agencies …

Fujitsu Invia, GNT Electronics, City of Tre/TIO,

ICT&M_wf 2002Viteli 2002

VAECT

OTHERS

SERVICES & COMMERCE ~ 1500

ORIGINS OF THE eTAMPERE PROGRAMME

•Assignment from the business development center in the spring of 2000

•What are the central themes of the future of information and communication technology?

•Preliminary idea for an extensive development programme

•A group of experts develop the idea further•Proposal for the eTampere programme was presented in August 2000, after which more specific planning has been carried out

eTAMPERE - BASED ON THE eEUROPE

INITIATIVE

Objectives of eEurope

•To connect each citizen, home, school, enterprise and administrative body to a network environment

•To create a Europe with digital skills and entrepreneurship

•To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to be part of the information society

eTampere aims high

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

the daily life of all citizens

The objective of the eTampere information society

programme is to make Tampere the spearhead city

of information society development

Organization

Steering committee

Working group

eTampereSTEERING COMMITTEE

Members• City of Tampere (chairman), University of

Tampere, Tampere University of Technology

• Fujitsu Invia Ltd, Media Tampere Ltd, Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd, Soon Communications Ltd, Sonera Ltd, Technology Centre of Tampere, Otis Ltd

• VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland• National Technology Agency • Council of Tampere Region, Employment

and Economic Development Centre• eTampere-office

Tasks

• guiding

• focuses on the programme´s general guidelines

• approves the repots

• Members are ”Godpersons” of certain subprogramme

• meets 2-3 times a year

WORKING GROUP

Members

• Leaders of subprogrammes

• eTampere-office, City of Tampere

• Special advisors

Tasks

• assist in the management and practical co-ordination

• come up with the new project ideas

• follow-up of practical work

• meets once a month

OFFICE

Director Jarmo Viteli

Project Manager Mia Lumio

Head of Communication Ulla Hartikainen

Special Advisor Petri Lintula (50 %)

Secretary Varpu Hakkarainen

Tasks

• communication and co-ordination of functions between various partners

• provide information and marketing

• setting up new development projects

•organizers seminars and get-together events

• secretary of steering committee and working group

• create channels for Tampere citizens to participate

• located in Media Tampere Ltd

Research & Evaluation Laboratory, RELab

(VTT)

RELab is a test environment in which various informationsociety services are produced and their functionality

tested

• risk management of future services•human-computer interaction•seamless services for mobile users• foresight of new technologies and operational models

Technology engine programmes

1. Adaptive software components- development of independent software components that function together flexibly, regardless of the devices utilized

2. User interfaces- development of ways to use every-day devices that are natural to as wide a group of users as possible

 3. Perception of information- the purpose of this research is to understand how humans perceive their environment and adopt information

 4. Neoreality- research is particularly directed to the development of an intelligent daily environment for humans – intelligent spaces and intelligent items

 5. Broadband data transfer- the objective is data transfer that is significantly more efficient than today

eBusiness Research Center, eBRC (Tampere University of Technology, University of Tampere)

• eBRC’s mission is to increase e-business knowledge within academia and industry - in Tampere and beyond.

• eBRC matches the interests of its Researcher, Business, and Research Funding Partners into border-crossing project-partnerships tackling knowledge society related business issues

Examples of eBRC’s Researcher Partners’ competences:• Profit generation models and industry value chains• Performance measurement and cost management• Business intelligence and business information mgmt• Growth strategies and new business venturing

Results and future plans of eBRC• Match-maker concept and organisation, web service (www.ebrc.info), rapidly

growing network of Researcher, Business and Research Funding Partners (eBRC’s back-bone comprises of over 100 Researcher Partners)

• Annual e-Business Research Forum (eBRF 2001 attracted over 150 participants from over 10 countries), research publications (FeBR 2001 and RR series)

• eStatus of SMEs, Digital Television, Venture-to-Capital, Agri-food sector digital road-mapping, e-Manufacturing, Synergies across the Baltic Sea, Digital rights management, e-Banking, Strategic and legal models for ASP activity, Managing on-line communities

• eBRF 2002, November 14-16, in Tampere (see: www.ebrc.info/conference2002) • contract research between eBRC’s Researcher and Business Partners on the rise

eAccelerator (Tampere Technology Centre Ltd)

•Shoots companies with unique high-technology-based ideas into the international growth path

•The growth of companies to international success is accelerated in stages in a planned way

•The required expertise and suitable opportunities for finance are sought for in each stage of development

Results and future plans of eAccelerator• Network of venture capitalists

• ”From idea to international success” –concept

• 5 new eA-companies on the way into international success

• experts for each 5 eA-companies (business plans, internal prosesses, partners)

• 5,3 M€ venture capital so far

• New search for spinn-offs focused on ”traditional” industry

• eFORUM – digital forum for venture capitalists

• 5-6 new start-ups

• General Enterprise Service Platform to create and develop the processes of eA-companies

• ACQEN – Developing the quality system for e-services of SMEs

• 3 M€ for eA-Companies this year

Information Society Institute, ISI (University of Tampere)

•Mission is to promote the construction of an information society based on active citizenship through multidisciplinary research and development activity and through education and training.

 •The research is based on a variety of approaches and

is directed so that it supports as well as possible the building of daily practices in the information society.

Examples of fields of research:User-Oriented Research, Media&Audiovisual Culture, IT & Everyday Life, IT & Global Development, ICT in Welfare Services, IS Observatory, Future Technologies, e-Learning, e-Goverment, Semantic Web, New Forms of Work

Infocity(City of Tampere)

Makes Tampere a model city of information society  • by developing practical online services for citizens and  • by improving the citizens’ preparedness to use them

• by giving more possibilities to acces Internet

Results and future plans of Infocity

• Electronic identification within online services

• eTampere-smart card

• Joint marketing of computer and Internet-courses, San´ny –email-service, Comparison service of Internet-providers

• NettiNysse – Internet Bus and over 100 public access points (Best eGov´t Practise Award –2001)

• Integration of on-line services into service production

• Service chains

Results: 1½ years of eTampere • Programme goes as planned • Sustainable concept for developing information society: Citizens IS,

developing of knowledge-intensive jobs, networking, four dimensions of IS• Internationally and nationally well-known • Internet used by 72 per cent of Tampere residents• Educational Network for motivation, know-how and availability of citizens• W3C-national office to be located in Tampere• eGlobal-conference (UN ICT Task Force, eEurope and eTampere)• 7 international projects accepted • Over 150 researchers and over 50 companies within eTampere-projects• Cooperative initiatives in subprogrammes launched to a total value

of more than 24 million euros• All subprogrammes have achieved the quantitative objectives besides

eAccelerator

Areas of emphasis in 2002

•Development of online services and information society skills in Tampere

•Support for small and medium-sized business activity with the help of information and communication technology

•Development of cooperation within the region and between educational establishments

•Launch of high-quality international initiatives•Qualitative evaluation of eTampere

SUBPROGRAMME 2001-2005 %

ISI 17'160'000 13

eBRC 17'110'000 13

RELab 16'970'000 13

Infocity 5'380'000 4

eAccelerator 54'270'000 41

Technology engine programmes 19'050'000 14

Office 2'060'000 2Total 132'000'000 100

FINANCING BYSUB- PROGRAMMES (€)

Financing

Year 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 TOTAL %City of Tampere 3'128'295 3'212'389 3'212'389 2'960'108 2'791'920 15'305'101 12UTA 580'248 681'161 782'074 866'168 967'081 3'876'732 3TUT 445'698 462'517 479'336 479'336 496'154 2'363'041 2TOTAL 4'154'241 4'356'067 4'473'799 4'305'612 4'255'155 21'544'874 17

OTHERS 6'895'707 12'225'570 23'532'618 30'718'806 34'738'498 108'111'199 83

TOTAL 11'049'948 16'581'637 28'006'417 35'024'418 38'993'653 129'656'073 100Total (cumulative) 27'631'585 55'638'002 90'662'420 129'656'073Execution total (cumulative), 31.6.2002

10'438'012 24'709'817

eTampere builds a humanly sustainable information society

eTampere is critical but curious, daring but humble, a builder of the new that respects the

old.

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