Materials on the Information Society

eSkills_Policy: Benchmarking policies on multi-stakeholder partnerships for e-skills in Europe

The good practice multi-stakeholder partnerships for e-skills development and related policies which have been identified and analysed using a network of National Correspondents from all EU27 Member States as well as Croatia, Iceland, Norway and Turkey will be made available as a searchable online Knowledge Base on the website: http://www.eskillspolicy-europe.org

BenchPol - Benchmarking in a Policy Perspective

The project has in 2006 and 2007 completed the following studies by theme:

Reorganisation of business processes (2006)
Use of broadband (2006)
Take up of advanced services (2006)
Use of public services on line (including e-Government and eHealth) (2007)
Digital literacy and ICT skills (2007)
e-inclusion (2007)

These reports can be downloaded from the i2010 website:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/benchmarking/index_en.htm
or:
http://www.empirica.biz/publikationen/schriftenreihe_en.htm

LearnInd - Benchmarking Access and Use of ICT in European Schools

The final report of the study "Benchmarking Access and Use of ICT in European Schools" dated September 2006 which summarises the results of a survey of aroound 20,000 head teacher and classroom teachers in all EU Member States, Norway and Iceland can be downloaded from the i2010 website:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/benchmarking/index_en.htm
or:
http://www.empirica.biz/publikationen/schriftenreihe_en.htm

The altogether 27 Country Briefs on "Use of Computers and the internet in Schools in Europe 2006" are made available at the i2010 website:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/benchmarking/index_en.htm

"eUser - Evidence-based Support for the Design and Delivery of User-centred Online Public Services"

The project website offers 25 Country Briefs on "Public Online Services and User Orientation" in 25 EU Member States (August 2005)
http://www.euser-eu.org/euser_countrybrief.asp?MenuID=83
Much more information and results for download are available at:
www.euser-eu.org

" SIBIS Statistics" (SIBIS: Statistical Indicators Benchmarking the Information Society) offers up-to-date empirical data for the years 2002 / 2003 relating to important topics of the Information Society covering a total of 27 countries

Further SIBIS- Products and Results:

SIBIS Pocketbook 2002/03: Measuring the IS in the EU, the Accession Countries, Switzerland and the US

June 2003, 211 pp., 10.5 x 29.7 cm

Download: http://www.sibis-eu.org/publications/pocketbook.htm

SIBIS Benchmarking Highlights 2002: Towards the IS in Europe and the US

May 2003, 71 pp., 10.5 x 29.7 cm.

Download: http://www.sibis-eu.org/publications/highlights.htm

SIBIS eEurope Topic Reports (June 2003):

Telecommunications and Access
Security and Trust
Education
Work, Skills and Employment
Social Inclusion
E-Commerce
E-Government
Health

Download: http://www.sibis-eu.org/files/download/reports_dl.htm

SIBIS Acceding and Candidate Countries Reports (Status: July 2003)

Estonia,
Latvia,
Lithuania,
Romania,
Bulgaria,
Slovakia,
Czech Republic,
Hungary,
Poland,
Slovenia.

The reports contain a benchmarking of the progress of these countries towards the Information Society based on empirical data that was both, assembled from existing sources and collected by means of innovative representative surveys among the European and Accession Country population carried out by the SIBIS project in 2002 and 2003.

DOWNLOAD: http://www.sibis-eu.org/evaluation/result2002.htm

STAR Issue Reports (Status: July 2003)

No. 7: Virtualisation of Labour Market Transactions: Technological Potential and Status Quo (May 2001)
No. 8: On the e-Work Frontier: Developments Towards an Internet-based Labour Market in a Forerunner Industry (May 2001)
No. 9: The Electronic Freelancing Economy: Myth or Reality? An Overview of Evidence (May 2001)
No. 24: Employment implications of electronic Customer Relationship Management (October 2002)
No. 26: "The Winners are…Multi-Practitioners!" Determinants of Success in e-Business and New Ways of Working in Selected European Countries (July 2002)
No. 36: More Yo-yos, Pendulums and Nomads: Trends of Mobile and Multi-location Work in the Information Society (July 2003)
No. 37: Mobile and Multi-Location Work in the European Union - Empirical Evidence from Selected Surveys (July 2003)

Download: http://www.databank.it/star/list_issue/issue.html

STAR Forum Survey Reports (Stand: July 2003)

2001: Information Society and Technology Programme Interaction (October 2001)
2002: STAR Forum Survey 2002. Expert Assessment of Hypotheses and Trends for the STAR 2010 Scenarios (February 2003)
2003: STAR Forum Survey 2003: Perspectives of Broadband Access and Internet Content (October 2003)

Download: http://www.databank.it/star/forum.htm

BISER Statistics (Status: December 2003)

Up-to-date year 2003 data relating to a series of relevant topics of the Information Society for a number of NUTS-2 regions in Europe will be offered later in 2004 via “BISER Statistics”