Title: MAPIT KNOWLEDGE MAPPING OF IT COMPETENCIES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION AND DIALOGUE FOSTERING
1MAP-IT!KNOWLEDGE MAPPING OF IT COMPETENCIES IN
THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION AND DIALOGUE FOSTERING
- MAP-IT! Information Day
- 27th July 2007
Alberto Sciuto - INNOVA
29th July 2007 Damascus, Syria
2Index of presentation
- MAP-IT! project intro and objectives
- Project expected results
- Project consortium
- Project workplan
- Methodologies used in MAP-IT!
- Synergies with IST project MED-IST
- Initial activities (Questionnaire)
- Benefits for you
3Why the MED region?
- MED countries in comparison with other worldwide
regions lag behind in ICT adoption but offer
great potential that needs to be uncovered and
disseminated to promote research collaboration
and co-operation - A majority of MED countries are demonstrating a
strong effort in defining their national ICT
development policies following a period when most
MED governments never had a focused policy
mainframe - With the EU-Mediterranean Partnership as the main
EU initiative, EU has expressed deep interest and
laid out significant funding in furthering
research relations in the MED area
4MAP-IT! EU
- MAP-IT! directly addresses the Information
Society Technologies (IST) Strategic Objective
2.6.5/2 International Co-operation SSA
- to contribute to a global strategy aiming to
identify, including through appropriate awareness
raising measures and dialog with broad
communities, the partners (countries or regions)
with whom Europe needs to focus collaboration,
the common objectives of collaboration and, in
each case,its rationale
5MAP-IT! objectives
- To map the competencies in the Mediterranean IST
arena, as corresponding to the strategic
objectives of the IST programme - To raise awareness within the Mediterranean IT
community about co-operation opportunities within
the IST programme
6MAP-IT! overall expected results
- The project will end up with three results
- 1) Reasoned and qualified mapping of industrial
IST related innovation structure of the target
countries, identifying players in the ICT
industrial arena - 2) Selection of key target players towards which
awareness activities in the area of opportunities
offered by EC 7th Framework Programme will be
launched, putting forth the ground for future
joint co-operation activities - 3) Launch of a dialogue process with identified
groups of players (companies, universities,
districts, technology parks) that can represent
promising partners for joint RD initiatives with
Europe, through workshops and training sessions
7MAP-IT! Consortium
- Consortium composed of four types of partners
- Institutional players from MED countries
- ITIDA (Egypt)
- Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research
and Technology (Tunisia) - Scientific/research experts
- LUniversité Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah de Fès
(Morocco) - International education, science, culture and
communication promoter - UNESCO
- Consultancies from Europe
- Cybion Project Coordinator (Italy and France)
- Innova (Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland)
- Euroquality (France)
8MAP-IT! workplan
- Project consists of 3 phases
- Data collection on MED target countries to gain
current macroeconomic view (innovation policy,
social, political, economic) of existing
situation in MED targeted countries and to take a
snapshot of the industrial and research
environment of each MED country in specific IST
areas. - Data analysis, results consolidation, knowledge
map creation of MED stakeholders - Dissemination, awareness and dialogue creation to
foster future cooperation
9Workpackage flow
WP1 Methodology definition
WP2 Data Collection
WP3 Mapping implementation
WP4 Database and on-line tools
WP5 Awareness raising
10Target countries
- Algeria
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Morocco
- Palestinian Authority
- Syria
- Tunisia
11Results per target country
- Mapping of competencies identify key technology
areas and ICT players - Position Papers country needs and proposals for
cooperation - Awareness raising and training
- Launch dialogue among MED players
12Results per target countryMapping
- Mapping of competencies identify key technology
areas through - knowledge mapping techniques
- questionnaires
- Regional webportal on MED research players in ICT
fields
13Methodology in Detail
- Definition of the mapping profiling procedure
- Who are our targets for the mapping?
- Definition of the benchmarking procedure
- What are the excellence indicators that can
define an ICT stakeholder? - Organisation of Working Groups and Expert Panels
- Mapped MED ICT stakeholders to be evaluated by
independent panel of research and industry
experts - MAP-IT! partners to make final selections
- Database insertion
- MAP-IT! database is sortable, searchable by
various fields (geographic area, ICT focus,
typology of stakeholder, etc.)
14Operative procedure
- Adoption of a benchmarking exercise
- Originally applied to the Innovation Relay
Centres Network (IRCs) throughout 2001 2006 - Applied methodological tool IVEM Benchmarking
Cycle - Identification
- Validation
- Engineering
- Monitoring
- The model will be tailored to the context of
MAP-IT!
15IVEM applied to MAP-IT!
- Identification
- Data acquisition through Desk research
Questionnaire mailing - Validation
- Validating and deepening the collected
information on the organisations resulted to be
excellent - Engineering
- Transfer of the collected data to the project
database, searchable by different search criteria - Monitoring
- Verifying if the conditions (internal external)
that classified an organisation as excellent
remained true in a given period of time
16Current status database
- More than 2.000 MED ICT stakeholders
- Target 4.000
- Questionnaires will be sent to enrich their
profiles and gather more information on
ICT-related strategies and experiences - Database to be made public this summer in synch
with full website launch
17Questionnaire
Questionnaire available within project info
provided by ITIDA
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191 0 No capability 1 Low capability 2
Medium capability 3 High capability
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211 Period of reference most recent annual data
but no more than 5 years old (2002) 2 Product
development is here intended in a wider sense
advice, application, etc. 3 Researchers but
also PhD students and Professors 4 Publications
are intended here in a wide sense white papers,
seminars papers, conference papers, etc.
22Target players
- Typologies of key actors to be detected
- SMEs (our primary target)
- Representatives from ICT industrial players (our
primary target) - Industrial associations/chambers of commerce
- Intermediary organisations
- Technology Science Parks (MED-IST primary
target for mapping) - Universities and research centres (MED-IST
primary target for mapping) - Sample of organisations
- Identification of ca. 500 key players per country
and 4.000 key players in all 8 countries
Final goal 50 identified IT excellence
organisations per country
23Results per target countryPosition papers
- Country needs and proposals for cooperation
through - Mapping results analysis
- Working Groups
- Expert panels
- Identify 5 technology areas
- Input for cooperation and matching
24Results per target countryAwareness raising
dialogue launch
- Press releases
- Promotion of the website
- Website content implementation
- Workshops and Events participation
- Blog creation
- Set up cooperation opportunities for the VII
Framework Programme
25Clustering with IST project MED-IST
26Clustering with IST project MED-IST
27Workshop timetable
28Benefits for you
- Be highlighted and published as one of the 50
selected ICT stakeholders per research area - Visibility of your company to EU and other MED
stakeholders - Participate in blog platform to create dialogue
between researchers and IT experts - Receive full information on the FP7 and ICT
Workprogramme - Learn how to participate to EU ICT funding calls
for proposal
29http//www.map-it-med.eu
MAP-IT! EU CONTACT POINT Project coordinator
Rina Angeletti Project officer James
GoldsteinCybion Srl Via della Scrofa, 117 00186
- Rome (Italy) Tel (39) 06.6865 975 Fax (39)
06.6880 6997 Website http//www.cybion.com/fr/it
MAP-IT! MED CONTACT POINT Dr. Sherif
Hashem Executive Vice President Information
Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA).
Building B5 Smart Village Cairo-Alex Desert Road
28th KM Giza, Egypt 12577 Tel. 20-2-5345151Fax.
20-2-5345150E-mail. shashem_at_mcit.gov.eg http//w
ww.itida.gov.eg/