Extended Description The purpose of the SENSITIC 2 project was to gauge the impact of the Information Society in seven regions of the Atlantic Arc:
South East Ireland; Carmarthenshire in Wales ;Brittany,Poitou -Charentes and Aquitaine in France; Rioja in Spain; the Algarve in Portugal.
It has a two-fold objective:
• to measure the progress achieved by the Information Society in six areas: citizen, enterprise, governance, education, tourism, culture.
• to benchmark the results between seven regions representing the five countries covered by the INTERREG IIIB Atlantic programme.
Starting with a previous project in 2000, SENSITIC II was not only a pioneer project but also a dynamic project that broadened both its scope of study and its geographical area.
SENSITIC II also had a double ambition :
• to allow the areas to better manage the conduct of their surveys in a sector that has become essential to their planning but one that is particularly changeable.
• to help inform decision makers on t he ‘inventory ’ of Information Technologies and by doing so to enable them to more effectively adapt their strategies in terms of activities associated with the Information Society.
SENSITIC II was therefore part of a desire to contribute to the aims of the eEurope 2005 plan in favour of the Information Society and to transfer its experience to the other region s in the Atlantic Area so as to promote a knowledge of their areas and ensure their competitiveness.
General Publicity Non-refereed academic paper:
Grene, M, O'Foghlú, M, O’Connor, R, (2005) “Information and Communications Technologies in the South East”, In WIT Erga Journal, Autumn 2005
SENSITIC Report 2005
Research Matters, January 2005.
Newspaper Article – ‘TSSG Endorses SEISS Initiative’ – January 2004, Munster Express, circulation 10,000.
Newspaper Article – ‘New Skills, New Opportunities, New Technologies, New Challenges’ – November 2004, Munster Express, circulation 10,000.
Newspaper Article – ‘Celtic Tiger – Hidden Region’ – October 2004, Munster Express, circulation 10,000.
Newspaper Article – ‘South East scores high on Computers and low on Broadband access – November 2004, Waterford News and Star, circulation 5,000.
Partner list: SENSITIC partners:
- Aquitaine Europe Communication (AEC) - Aquitaine FRANCE
Aquitaine Europe Communication: Lead Partner
Cité Mondiale
23, Parvis des Chartrons
33074 Bodeaux CEDEX
Tel: +33 (0)5 57 57 01 01
Fax: +33 (0)5 57 57 97 17 - Arantis - Poitou-Charentes FRANCE
Téléport 1, Arobase 2
Av. du Futuroscope
BP 70263
86 963 Futuroscope - Chasseneuil cedex
Tel: +33 (0)5 49 49 43 40
Fax: +33 (0)5 49 49 43 42 - GIS MARSOUIN (www.marsouin.org) ENST - Bretagne FRANCE
Dept. ESH, ENST
Bretagne Technopole de Brest Iroise
29285 Brest
Tel: +33 (0)2 29 00 12 45
Fax: +33 (0) 2 29 00 10 92 - FUNDARCO- Rioja ESPANA
Information Society Rioja Fondation (Fundación Riojana para la Sociedad del Conocimiento)
Avenida de Portugal, 3 entlo.26001 LOGRONO
Tel: +34 941 28 68 45
Fax: +34 941 28 74 95 - CPINAL - Algarve PORTUGAL
CPINAL – Centro Promotor de Inovação e Negocios de Algarve ~
(BIC -Business Innovation Centre): partner of the project
Av. Dr. Bernardino da Silva,
65-2
8700-301 OLHÃO
Tel: +351 289 707920
Fax: +351 289 781121 - Antur Teifi - Wales UNITED KINGDOM
12-14 John Street, Llanelli,
Carmarthenshire
Wales
Tel: +44 1554 772122
Fax: +44 1554 777755 - SEISS at TSSG,
Waterford Institute of Technology
