1. CM Parallel session B2 (M. Le Louarn, INFSO D5/DE sector) Expected economic impacts of DE on regional development: the critical mass phase Rapporteur: Mary Darking, London School of Economics and Political Science, DBE integrated project

2. Identifying Expected Impacts Identifying main types of stakeholders involved & individual impacts expected on each type Identifying global impacts from: –the juxtaposition of individual impacts for all different stakeholders/ –not only direct impacts, but also indirect ones (impacts chains, vicious/virtuous circles, holistic effects) –in particular bridging micro/macro levels, different local/regional territories with differing scopes/goals/ strategies, involving differing sectors and interactions?

3. Assessing Expected Impacts Assessing individual impacts on the types of stakeholders - & their “value” (direct and indirect, tangibles and intangibles) Assessing the global impacts – the aggregation of direct impacts – impacts chain (indirect impacts) And assessing their value (to the different types of direct - and indirect - stakeholders)

4. Prime targeted stakeholders for regions interested in DE? User SMEs (to be enabled across the digital divide) –For increased individual competitiveness, widened market access, and increased services to their own customers –For cooperation/networking with other related/potential business partners –To provide new/further added value through static or dynamic cooperations (service chains)

5. Prime targeted stakeholders for regions interested in DE? Local ICT providers (including SMEs) which help User SMEs to cross the digital divide: –(much?) enlarged SME-customer market, geographic and (cross-?) sectoral –Cooperation between ICT providers: setting up jointly added-value services for their user SMEs, increased global competitiveness?

6. How to identify expected impacts in a given region in view of its DE deployment strategy? How to identify when critical mass is reached - and start to have global effects which can be assessed? At that stage, how to assess the actual impacts in a given region (identifying if to what extent the various expectations are met?) How to assess global value of impacts (direct & indirect, tangible and intangibles?) to different stakeholders? Focus initial discussion on: