The european way to think the digital world

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• The european way to think the digital world
• April 2003

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IDATE presentation
A European think-tank with a double vocation
Debate Analysis

• A European Forum for exchanges between Company
  Heads, Public Policy Makers and the Academic
  World
• A team of Consultants focused on the
  Telecommunications, Internet and Media Industries

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Your functions Our skills

• Industrial strategies
• Network and service forecasting
• Socio-organisational impact of innovation jobs,
  tele-activities, etc.
• Community RD programmes
• Market surveys
• Modelling, forecasts
• Strategic marketing
• Sector-based analyses
• Regulation
• Strategic and financial evaluation
• Techno-economic evaluation
• Strategic analysis of means of communication
  seminars, technical assistance, master plans,
  etc.
• Local project engineering technical centres,
  urban networks, etc.

• Forecasting
• and Strategy
• Marketing
• and Sales
• Finance
• and Legal
• Telecom Projects Management

Telecoms Mobiles Internet Netwoks Applications E-c
ommerce Cable Digital TV Satellites
Components ..
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Services

• Consultancy
• Research assignments
• Strategy
• Multiclient studies
• Annually updated International Studies (The World
  Atlas of Mobiles, etc.)
• Thematic Analyses (Wi-FI, TV on ADSL, etc.)
• Forum
• Annual International Conference
• Review COMMUNICATIONS STRATEGIES
• IDATE Foundation
• European network ENCIP

Forum
Market report
Consulting
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Clients

• Media groups
• Cinema, television, press, electronic media,
  etc.
• Telecom operators
• Fixed, mobile, global services, new entrants,
  etc.
• Industries and services
• Telecoms, IT, electronic, Internet, satellites,
  etc.
• Public authorities
• Regulators, Ministries,The European Commission,
  international bodies, local authorities, etc.
• Financial establishments
• Banks, venture capital, mergers acquisitions,
  etc.

The Rest of the world
Europe
France
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Identity card

• Established in 1977
• Budget 2002 7 M Euros
• 60 people (economists and engineers) with
  specialist skills (Telecom, Networks, Media, IT,
  Internet, etc.)

President Francis Lorentz CEO Yves
Gassot y.gassot_at_idate.fr

International Philippe Coste Development
p.coste_at_idate.fr
Industrial Didier Pouillot
Analyses d.pouillot_at_idate.fr
Technology Jean-Charles Doineau Development
jc.doineau_at_idate.fr Strategy
Scientific Edmond Baranes Management
e.baranes_at_idate.fr
Administration Pierre Mirallès
Finance p.miralles_at_idate.fr
Marketing Bruno Teyton Forecasting b.teyton_at_ida
te.fr

Marketing Jean-D. Séval Sales
jd.seval_at_idate.fr
Media Gilles Fontaine
Economics g.fontaine_at_idate.fr
Public Policies Alain Veyret
Territories a.veyret_at_idate.fr
Information Eliane Glarmet
Documentation e.glarmet_at_idate.fr
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Our Strengths

• Highly reputed consultant teams totalling 25
  years of experience in the field of Information
  and Communication Technologies
• One of the foremost independent consultancy and
  research centres in Europe
• International experience acquired through
  European and worldwide networks and assignments
• Continuous investment in an information system
  embracing players (IDACOM, Rex) and products
  (Innovacom) involved in the sphere of information
  Technology
• A Forum for exchange linking industrialists,
  public authorities and the academic world

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Consulting

• IDATE it is also a team of 40 consultants and
  analysts specialised on the Telecom-Internet-Audio
  visual sectors.
• IDATE has established its credibility and
  independence in leading consultancy and study
  missions on behalf of its clients, for whom, its
  multi-disciplinary teams of economists and
  engineers are in a position to analyse the impact
  of market, regulatory and technological
  evolutions on their business and strategies.

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Market reports 2003 catalogue

• Market reports database and analysis
• Throughout the year, IDATEs consultants
  regularly publish reference studies on the
  Telecommunications, Media and Internet sectors,
  such as

• Paper, CD-Rom and on-line editions
• Intranet and online access on www.idate.org
• Publication both French and English
• International distribution

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Forum

• IDATE has set in place a platform enabling an
  exchange between company heads, public policy
  makers and the academic world.

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The IDATE Foundation

• The Foundations vocation is to contribute to the
  continued establishment of a centre for the study
  and exchange of ideas between company heads and
  public policy makers
• IDATE Club Every month it brings together
  leading executives from its business members, in
  the form of the IDATE Club.
• Participation in study seminars on topics
  representing strategic issues for members
• 2002 seminar Research innovation in ICT an
  intersection of views
• 2001 seminar Networks, Information goods and
  Market efficiency
• 2000 seminar From the Net to the New Economy
• 1999 seminar Access stakes, strategies and
  regulation
• Publication of reports
• Digiworld Yearbook the statement of the digital
  world (since 2001)
• 99 report Information and governance
  technology under the supervision of Bruno
  Lasserre
• 97 report Research and Development Policies -
  New Industrial Deal and European Challenges,
  under the supervision of Jacques Lesourne
• 95 report Society meets multimedia - economic
  and cultural issues for Europeans, under the
  supervision of Alain Minc
• Sponsoring IDATEs International Conference

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The IDATE Foundation
Today, it gathers more than 20 international
groups Telecoms operators, TV channels,
manufacturers, software services, banks and
financial organisations, large corporations,
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Forum International Conference

• For over 20 years, IDATEs International
  Conference has served as a unique centre in
  Europe for the assessment of the consequences of
  changes taking place in the information and
  communication technologies domain.
• A European forum open to the world, gathering
  together every year top-flight speakers and over
  700 participants who come to discuss and compare
  their experiences industrialists, public
  policy-makers, researchers and representatives
  from the academic world.
• The following speakers have notably taken part in
  our previous conferences

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The Quarterly scientific Review

• A European publication, independent and open to
  the concerns of the Industry, providing a
  platform for the best socio-economic analysis
  studies.
• Each year since its creation in 1991, this
  quarterly review published by IDATE offers two
  special issues on different themes, the latest
  being
• Euro-CPR 2002 the proceedings of the annual
  conference on research and communication policies
  (No. 46, 2nd quarter 2002)
• Network, Information goods and Market efficiency
  (No. 44. 4th quarter 2001)
• From the Net to the new economy (No. 40, 4th
  quarter 2000)
• Access the issues at stake, strategies,
  regulation (No. 36, 4th quarter 99)
• The Internet a new economic deal (No. 32, 4th
  quarter 99)

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DigiWorld an original initiative

• DigiWorld the concept is to offer the
  specialized expertise of IDATEs 40 consultants
  and analysts through a collaborative annual
  publication that presents a structured summary of
  the state of the Digital World.
• DigiWorld aims to provide a documentary base and
  food for thought to all those who are interested
  in getting a better understanding of the
  evolution of ITC and of its economic and social
  impact. DigiWorld2003 is structured into two
  parts one devoted to reference data and the
  other which takes the form of a commented
  chronicle of the events that marked the year.
• It is a large diffusion product sponsored by
  the IDATE Foundation you can download it from
  www.idate.org

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The European Network ENCIP

• Numerous partners have gathered together around
  IDATE to design a common research programme with
  a view to contributing to the creation of a
  European think tank to deal with the
  proliferation of problems confronting the
  Information Society.
• ENCIP helps to strengthen IDATE's anchorage in
  Europe and provide a gateway to state-of-the-art
  academic research studies.
• Each year, ENCIP organises the Euro-CPR
  Conference in Barcelona.

• Centro Studi San Salvador (Italy)
• Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
• CIC (Sweden)
• COMTEC (Ireland)
• CTI (Denmark)
• ENST (France)
• IDATE (France)
• LENTIC (Belgium)
• MERIT (Netherlands)
• NTU (Greece)
• SMIT (Belgium)
• SPRU (United Kingdom)
• TECHNO-Z (Austria)
• TNO-STB (Netherlands)
• WIK (Germany)

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