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2002 |
Fri July 25, 2003
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Award
Categories
1. Work and Skills
This category is for organisations, projects and programmes, commercial
and public, where the use of modern information and communication technologies
(ICT) has contributed to the achievement of one or more of the following
objectives.
- Improving skills
and competencies: addressing the higher-level cognitive and social skills
needed for effective participation in decentralised, self-managed, knowledge-based
work; creating continuous and flexible learning opportunities to enable
employees to upgrade their skills over their entire working life as
new technologies emerge and as their tasks change.
- Improving work
structure and process: facilitating or enhancing work throughput (e.g.
by supporting distributed "virtual" teams or augmenting the
capabilities of co-located teams); improving decision-making approaches
(e.g. via group decision support systems); making business processes
more efficient (e.g. via workflow technologies); helping work groups
capture and use what their community of practice has learned (e.g. via
knowledge management systems).
- Improving quality
of working life: increasing employees' engagement in and responsibility
for their tasks; enabling more flexible approaches to working times
and places.
2. The Digital SME
Competing in this category are Small or Medium Enterprises (SME) which
demonstrate a significant performance improvement in one or more of the
following areas thanks to the use of modern ICT, as well as projects or
programmes aimed at supporting SMEs "go digital" in these areas.
- Business networks,
i.e. supply chains (exchange of information and management of relations,
e-procurement); customer networks (CRM, integration of front-end marketing
and back-end processes); collaborative networks (knowledge management,
sharing and creation between peer members).
- Innovation, in
organisation (knowledge codification, information communication, decision
making, ways of working); in processes (improving relations with customers,
integrating processes with those of partners in the supply chain or
in the collaborative network); in existing products or services with
the help of digital technologies, or in new,digital, products or services.
- Resources, such
as knowledge; human resources and skills; financial resources (e-sales,
e-trade, e-banking, e-investments).
- Market position,
as measured by classical indicators such as: market share and turnover,
local and/or global; new market development.
3. Social Inclusion
Candidates in this category are projects, programmes, and in general any
type of initiative supporting and promoting the use of ICT to contribute
to one or more of the following objectives aimed at narrowing the digital
divide, whether between countries and regions, or between demographic
groups.
- Facilitate access
to ICT including: access to the infrastructure (the computers and the
networks connecting them); access to the skills (required to operate
the computers); reduction of access costs; design of appropriate interfaces
for human-computer interaction (particularly for people with special
needs such as the disabled or the elderly).
- Adapt education
to the requirements of the knowledge society: improve and increase the
availability of digital educational material; improve the digital literacy
of teachers; evaluate new methods and processes of teaching and learning;
improve ICT continuous training.
- Use ICT with the
purpose to help vulnerable groups (young people, old people, unemployed
people, women, low-income families, people with disabilities, minority
ethnic groups).
- Raise awareness
and inform policy-making bodies about e-inclusion issues.
4. Regional Cohesion
Candidates in this category are projects, programmes, and in general any
type of initiative supporting and promoting the use of ICT to help achieving
one or more of the following objectives of welfare and wealth at a local
or regional scale involving regional/local actors.
- Regional economic
development: creating the conditions for long-term economic development,
an increase in regional jobs and income, and an increase in the number
and success of enterprises; upgrading regional competitiveness, innovation
and diversity, the quality of the labour force and the quality of the
physical and ICT infrastructures at the local/regional level.
- Regional environmental
sustainability: this involves both natural and man-made environments,
including physical planning, lack of pollution, congestion, etc.
- Regional social
cohesion: maintenance and development of the social, community and cultural
cohesion and values of the region.
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