1. Roland Haber On behalf of the European Commission eContent European Digital Content on the Global Networks

2. The rationalThe rational The eContent programmeThe eContent programme The focus in 2003 - 2004The focus in 2003 - 2004 Agenda

3. More and more people are connecting to the global networks According to Nua.com 605 million people have internet access ( Q3 2002) 190 million of those live in Europe, and the number is growing

4. The ability to deliver rich content over the networks is increasing

5. Even if the latest stock market downturns has slowed down the technology sectors

6. Europe has Rich content base Long publishing tradition Assets in linguistic and cultural customisation World ranking players...but it is Lagging in e-publishing

7. improving access for all to high-quality digital content on the global networks in a multiplicity of languages, catering for different cultures supporting the increased availability, use and distribution of European digital content The objectives of the eContent programme

8. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? How will the eContent programme reach these ambitions?

9. Improving access to and expanding the use of public sector information Enhancing content production in a multilingual and multicultural environment Increasing dynamism of the digital content market Action Line 1 Action Line 2 Action Line 3 100 million Euro Call 3 Call 1Call 2 Call 4 24-26 million 2001200220032004 2005 40%-45% 10%-15%

10. Call 3 Action line 1 Improving access to and expanding use of public sector information Call 4

11. What is public sector information? –Legal/administrative data. –Financial/economical data, –Culture, archives, entertainment, information material –Geographical data including land and property information, traffic information, environmental data –Services at local level such at education, health etc. –Science and technical information –And more…………………………….. Action line 1Public sector information

12. Important for citizens: Bringing citizens closer to administrations Important in the democratic process Important for business: Essential to make business strategies Crucial for taking advantage of the internal market rights And in particular for the content industries: Source for new information products (aggregation) Action line 1Public sector information

13. (1.1) Cross-border information services based on public sector information. What the Commission is looking for? -The cross-border nature of the information service -The added-value nature of the information service -The business case, - Re-use aspect

14. (1.2) Establishment of European digital data collections based on public sector information What the Commission is looking for? Projects that will show: – Coverage of a considerable part of Europe -Scalability –Impact of the action on the digital content market; –Involvement of Candidate Countries where appropriate Action line 1Public sector information

15. Action Line 2 Producing Content in a multilingual and multicultural environment Call 3 Call 4

16. Action line 2 Multilingual and multicultural environment Objective To ease access to and ensure a wider availability of high quality networked content across markets and communities, by encouraging co-operation between the European content and language industries.

17. Action line 2Multilingual and multicultural environment What the Commission is looking for? (1) Partnerships for multilingual and multicultural content between various actors in the content and language industries: localisation of applications and services addressing multimedia content accessible through various platforms and devices

18. Action line 1Public sector information What the Commission is looking for? (2) Projects strengthening the linguistic infrastructure in Europe: -Networking of existing regional and national resources and their access and use by content actor -Development of new multilingual resources for less widely spoken languages -Covering an adequate number of languages Action line 2Multilingual and multicultural environment

19. Action Line 3 Increasing dynamism of the digital content market Call 3 Call 4

20. Action line 3 Increasing dynamism of the digital content market Objective To support the European content market by horizontal actions that increase the effectiveness of the main action lines of the programme.

21. Action line 3 Increasing dynamism of the digital content market (3.1)Exchange of good practices To stimulate the exchange of best-practices throughout Europe on the re-use of public sector information and the linguistic customisation of content. What the Commission is looking for? -case studies,print and electronic publications, and presentations at major public event. -Thematic networks to improve the learning processes and the exchange of good practices on the re-use of public sector information at European level

22. Action line 3 Increasing dynamism of the digital content market (3.3) Management of rights for digital content Stimulate an environment for the acceptance of right clearance solutions for digital content, with a special attention given to material originating from the public sector. What the Commission is looking for? Actions aiming at creating a dialogue between: - content creators, - collecting societies, - content industry players and - consumer organisations. Identification of emerging business models and pricing schemes.

23. Ideal eContent project eContent co-funded project = available technology + right partnerships + innovative idea with a business model Based on: Re-use of public sector information Linguistically&culturally customised content

24. Contact points & info http://www.cordis.lu/econtent Help desk eContent@cec.eu.int