Economy – How ICT can foster growth and development in Europe? – PL 04 2014
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Session title
Economy – How ICT can foster growth and development in Europe? – PL 04 2014
Friday, 13th of June 2014, 09:30
Session subject
- The role of SMEs in the digital economy
- How to reduce regulatory barriers to innovation to compete with global markets
- New online business models
Session description
What challenges and opportunities do IT-SMEs and Start-ups face in Europe?: Finding a European Path – addressing issues such as:
- Single digital market but cultural, language, tax, administrative hurdles
- Growing entrepreneurial culture but continued reluctance by investors
- New online business models and the use of meta / big data
- Internationalization of IT-SMEs
- Cross-border interference with Internet infrastructure
- Financing / Venture Capital / Tax issues
- Access to qualified labour
- Access to R&D
Breakout Sessions
11:30 - 13:00h
- Practical Examples: Successful European IT-SMEs addressing the issue of internationalization (Proposal 69): Session moderator: Dr. Oliver Grün
- Internet business models in Europe: There is a common view, that the "Internet is for free". Users are not aware of business models which create value e.g. from meta data / big data (proposal 45): Session moderator: Ulrich Kohn
- Geographic Top Level Domains (GeoTLDs): between profitability and public interest (proposal 4): Session moderator: Dirk Krischenowski
For more details on breakout sessions see: the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page.
People
- Focal points:
- Linda van Renssen, LOAD - Verein für Netzpolitik (Association for Network Policy)
- Dirk Krischenowski, dotBERLIN GmbH & Co. KG (.berlin Top-Level-Domain)
- Dean Ceulic
- Jimmy Schulz, LOAD - Verein für Netzpolitik (Association for Network Policy)
- Live moderator: Varinia Bernau
- Rapporteur: Olivier Crepin-Leblond
- Remote participation moderator: Farzaneh Badii, Hamburg University
- Digital facilitator: Sonia
- Panelists/speakers:
- Alexander Riedl, Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission DG CONNECT
- Miriam Rupp, Founder & CEO Mashup Communications
- Dirk Krischenowski, Geo-Top-Level-Domain Interest Group
- Dr. Jan Krancke, Vice President Deutsche Telekom, Head of Regulatory Strategy & Economics Division
- Thijl Klerkx, Entrepreneur
- Key Participants:
- Nadine Karbach, IJAB
- Thomas Schauf, Head of European & International Affairs, German Association of the Digital Economy (BVDW)
- Dr. Oliver Grün, VP PIN-SME, President, BITMi
- Detlef Dauke, Ministerial Director, Head of Innovation, IT, and Communications policy, BMWi
Format of this working group at EuroDIG
Plenary
Protocol. Discussions
See the discussion tab on the upper left side of this page
Further reading
Messages
Reporter: Olivier Crepin-Leblond, ICANN’s At-large Advisory Committee (ALAC)
- Adapt education systems and encourage entrepreneurship with young people
- Change attitudes to risk-taking and address the stigma of failure in European Society
- Speed up European integration of the regulatory environments and make the regulatory environments agile to support and not hinder the evolution of technology and business
- Reboot Europe – stop putting barriers up to protect the past at the expense of promoting the future – because the Internet is a chance for everyone.
Video Record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqx4v4M8c5g
Live Transcript
Preparatory meetings
- 2014-05-06 14:30 - 17:30 Berlin LOAD HQ
- 2014-05-07 15:00 - 18:30 Berlin LOAD HQ
- 2014-05-09 15:00 - 16:00 Telco Focal Team
- 2014-05-13 16:00 - 17:00 Telco Focal Team
- 2014-05-14 09:30 - 10:00 Telco Linda & Dirk
- 2014-06-02 16:00 - 16:30 Telco Focal Team
- 2014-06-03 16:00 - 16:30 Telco Focal Team
Pictures from working group
Link
Session twitter hashtag
Hashtag: #eurodig_pl4