eTEN Stimulating Investments in Public Services ERIS Conference Information Society and the Challeng

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eTEN - Stimulating Investments in Public
ServicesERIS_at_ ConferenceInformation Society
and the Challenges of Peripheral AreasJoensuu
18/19 Sep 2003

• John S. BealeeTEN UnitDG-INFSO

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Outline of Presentation

• eTEN - Aims and Objectives
• eTEN - Implementation
• eTEN - Challenges and Responses
• eTEN - Conclusions

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eTEN - Political and Legal Basis

• Treaty- articles 154, 155 and 156 set the
  objective of establishing Trans-European networks
  in the areas of transport, telecommunications and
  energy.
• eEurope 2005- to finance projects and actions
  at the European level, the Commission will make
  full use of the eTEN and IDA programmes. Both
  programmes are currently being re-orientated to
  support eEurope 2005
• eEurope 2005- in particular the financial
  regulation with respect to the eTEN programme
  would need to be adapted to make this programme
  an appropriate tool.

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eTEN - Programme Status

• eTEN evolved from TEN-Telecom (1996)
• eTEN a oriented to e-services and to eEurope
• Trans-European Services in the public interest
• Project inventory status
• 163 projects (1997-2002)
• 157 market validation projects (95)
• 6 deployment projects (5)
• Typically funding 250K - 1.5M (over 18-24
  months)
• 55 projects currently executing
• Next step
• Evaluate Call for Proposals 2003

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eTEN Objective

• To stimulate the accelerated takeup of
  trans-national e-services in EU-25.
• eTEN aligned to the key areas of eEurope 2005
• eGovernment,
• eHealth,
• eInclusion
• eLearning and Culture
• Trust and Security

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eTEN at the heart of eEurope
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Outline of Presentation

• eTEN - Objectives
• eTEN - Implementation
• eTEN - Challenges and Responses
• eTEN - Conclusions

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eTEN-Programme Status

• Annual Budget (39M EUR)
• increased by 12 in 2004 (enlargement)
• Project inventory status
• 163 projects (1997-2002)
• 157 market validation projects (95)
• 6 deployment projects (5)
• Typically funding 250K - 1.5M (over 18-24
  months)
• 55 projects currently executing

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eTEN Time-line
30 introduced
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eTEN Call for Proposals

• Feb 2003 Set orientations public consultation
• wide distribution mail-shot,
  multipliers and web
• Mar 2003 Draft workprogramme (WP)
• discussed with Committee
  13/3/03
• Apr 2003 WP adoption (Committee Commission)
• May 2003 Publish WP and Call

• Sep 2003 Close call evaluate proposals
• Oct 2003 Select projects, start negotiations
• Dec 2003 First contract signatures

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Conditions for Participation (Eligibility)

• Any legal entity in EU Member States (public or
  private)
• Proposals must be consistent with eTEN objectives
• Proposals (except Support Actions) must have the
  approval of the national government
• Proposals must have a cross border context
  although they need not be fully trans-European
• Consortia must contain legal entities from at
  least 2 Member States.

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Project phases current portfolio
Phase.II
Phase.III
Phase.IV
Phase.I(RD)
Trans-European Market Validation (local)(regional
) (national)
Initial MarketDeployment
Full Market Deployment
Pilot Services
inventory
2003 call
Note.1. Sum of funding in Phases II III
Estimated Total Investment Costs (ETIC) Note.2.
Sum of funding received in Phases II III
lt10 of ETIC Note.3. Funding under Phase II at
up to 50 of costs within constraint of Note.2
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Action Line 1 eGovernment

• Goals
• efficiency and re-engineering of processes
• openness
• accessibility
• Examples
• Culture
• Tourism
• Transport Mobility
• Environment
• eProcurement

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Action Line 2 eHealth

• Goals
• improve access and quality
• cost-efficiency
• handle medical advancesand demographic change
• Examples
• health information networks
• electronic healthcare
• insurance card
• preventative services

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Action Line 3 eInclusion

• Goals
• Overcome socio-economic,geographic cultural
  barriers
• prevent digital exclusion
• Examples
• access to eBusiness solutions (SMEs)
• assist participation independenceof people
  with disabilities,the elderly and socially
  disadvantaged

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Action Line 4 eLearning

• Goals
• improve quality and access
• promote lifelong learning
• Examples
• virtual campuses (schools, universities)
• digital literacy training for citizens
• distance learning services

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Action Line 5Trust and Security

• Goals
• raising the level of trust confidence
• Examples
• Trust marks, Accreditation schemes
• authentication services
• Risk and fraud management
• eProcurement/ eCommerce (SMEs)
• networking of CERT / CSIRT systems

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Action Line 6Support co-ordination

• Goals
• Build co-operation between sector actors
• Build co-operation among eTEN projects
• Co-ordinate activities with otherCommunity and
  national programmes
• Examples
• Workshops, conferences,dissemination activities

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eTEN Portfolio example (1)

• FACTS
• Validation, 2002-2003, 250K funding
• Based on IST project NETLINK with Franco-German
  Franco-Belgian pilot
• Commission Communication on Healthcards mentions
  NetC_at_rds (SAINCO, EMPLOY)
• Interest from other Member States, Accession
  Third Countries (Canada)

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eTEN Portfolio example (2)

• FACTS
• Deployment, 2002-2004, 1.1M funding
• Based on TEN-Telecom project eGAPthat validated
  a wider range of services
• SPES focuses on the single topic of digital
  signatures accelerating introduction into public
  administrationsin five cities (Italy, UK,
  Denmark, Germany)
• Provides smart card multipoint access to
  citizens(births, deaths, marriages, building and
  land registry)
• Provides unified access to enterprise services
• Covers signatures for internal back-office admin
• More cities/countries want to replicate

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eTEN Portfolio example (3)

• FACTS
• Validation, 2003-2004, 1.6M funding
• Brings together 8 donor transplant centres from
  Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Greece and Belgium
• Realisation of a European Organ Data Exchange
  Portal and Data Base to be used in the medical
  field of data organ exchange and transplantation
• Based upon common EU protocols for data
  acquisition and processing on organs donation
• Delivering of updated and official information to
  professional operators and institutions,
  accessible via internet in real-time

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Outline of Presentation

• eTEN - Objectives
• eTEN - Implementation
• eTEN - Challenges and Responses
• eTEN - Conclusions

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Obstacles to Trans-European deployment

• Trans-European services must overcome barriers of
  language, culture, legislation and administration
• E.g. Multi-linguality content adds 15 per
  language
• Initial set-up of services is both complex and
  high cost
• Capital expenditure on basic infrastructure is
  not included
• Emphasis being on intellectual activities rather
  than material
• Therefore validation phase can reach 10
  financial regulation limit
• Little or no funding remaining for deployment
  phase
• Public entities have priority to utilise their
  budgets for services serving their local
  constituency
• Trans-European consortia incur additional
  overheads (10-15)

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Proposed new funding ceiling of 30 (1)

• Currently only 5 by number of eTEN projects are
  Deployment Projects
• Taking into account the obstacles (previous
  slide), it is now recognised that the current
  funding level of 10 does not provide sufficient
  incentive for deployment

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Proposed new funding ceiling of 30 (2)

• eEurope 2005 Action Plan also identified changes
  to the Financial Regulation in respect of eTEN
• In particular the financial regulation with
  respect to the eTEN programme would need to be
  adapted to make this programme an appropriate
  tool.
• Council and Parliament should raise the funding
  ceiling for the implementation phase of eTEN
  projects from 10 to 30 without prejudice to the
  other TEN programmes.
• Proposal to this end from the Commission to the
  European Parliament and the Council in April 2003

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Proposed new funding ceiling of 30 (3)

• Up to 30 is only for eTEN deployment projects
• Increase impact
• more deployment projects (from 5 to 50)
• NO additional funding requested
• therefore better focussing, more visibility

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Integration of new Member States

• New Member States can participate in eTEN from 1
  Jan 2004.
• We know little about state of e-services,
  potential for expansion and obstacles in new
  Member States
• Working on a Study to clarify these issues
• eTEN must become a programme of 25 countries (not
  1510) asap
• replication and proliferation of good practices
• speed up modernisation of public services

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eTEN - 2004 synopsis

• Budget 2004 - 43 M
• Continued emphasis on deployment with more
  effective use of funding
• Increased funding ceiling for deployment
• Enlargement
• Considering options for calls for proposals
• Call for participation of new member states
• Call for deployment of good practice to new
  member states
• Open call

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eTEN - Challenges for 2004

• Emphasis on deployment with increased funding
  ceiling
• 10 new member states and a 12 budget increase
• Their participation in eTEN needs to catch up
• Much increased interest in the 15 member states
• Current level of interest indicates a large
  oversubscription to the call for proposals

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Outline of Presentation

• eTEN - Objectives
• eTEN - Implementation
• eTEN - Challenges and Responses
• eTEN - Conclusions

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eTEN - Main Points

• Partial re-orientation of eTEN has occurredto
  bring it in-line with eEurope 2005, i.e. support
  for deployment of public services,
• To improve the impact and sustainability of eTEN
  project results an increase of Community funding
  for Deployment Projects to 30 has been proposed,
• Major effort to include new Member States into
  theeTEN programme and to create a
  homogeneousprogramme of EU-25,
• A special Call for new Member States to be
  launched at the beginning of 2004 is under
  evaluation.
• Main Call for 2004 is expected.

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eTEN - Stimulating Investments in Public
Services

• John S. BealeContact Point in eTEN for new
  Member States
• E-mail address john.beale_at_cec.eu.intWeb
  address http//europa.eu.int/etenTelephone 32
  2296 0235