Event Details

Opportunities and Rewards for Regional Development through ICT: New Paradigms – New Challenges

Newport, UK

11 June 2008

13 June 2008

This conference will focus on the opportunities and challenges for regions in their continuing adoption of ICT and their attempts to adjust to globalisation, cope with technology changes, and contribute to goals of the Lisbon Agenda. The event will be an opportunity for regions to share experiences, exchange good practices, build collaborative projects and debate some of the strategic policy issues and associated technology challenges that Europe faces.

The key themes to be raised during the conference include:
- How Digital Ecosystems could offer small businesses and regional development agencies a new model for competitiveness and economic growth
- Some critical success factors for regions to take account of in seeking to create more favourable environments for creativity and innovation through broadband
- The ways in which regions and enterprises can use ICT in more beneficial ways
- The risk and threats of e-Crime to the economy - tackling e-Crime from a Welsh, UK and European experience
- The threats and challenges associated with growing use of ICT and the policies and practices needed to counter them
- e-Inclusion from a Welsh, UK and European perspective

Ms Ester Torres

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