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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
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