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eNorway 3.0 (2009)
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Background |
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ICT makes up 40 percent of the productivity growth in Europe.
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Calculations indicate that the value over the next three years of the European online content market will be tripled to 30 billion euro.
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German consumers download ring tones worth 360 million euro. The global market is 1.5 billion euro.
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The population of Japan and Korea spend more time online than in front of their televisions.
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Voice over IP, telephone calls routed through the Internet, is growing immensely. For example, Skype, one of the leading providers of Internet telephony, gets 150,000 new users each day.
Norway wants to participate actively, ambitiously and with clear intentions, in these rapid, exciting developments.
The Norwegian Government intends to take the necessary steps to achieve the potentials that are inherent in the ICT and the knowledge society. Stronger coordination, identification of clear areas of investment and concrete, ambitious, while realistic, goals will create results that really make a difference.
The first eNorway policy ( the 1.0 version) was adopted by the Norwegian government in year 2000.
eNorway 2009 3.0 is all about how the Government will exploit and realise the opportunities. Norway is facing a demanding and exciting task. eNorway 2009 is adopted to really take the digital leap forward. |
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The policy goals |
 The Norwegian Government has identified concrete goals in the following areas:
1.1 Digital participation for everyone
1.2 Digital skills
1.3 Digital services to the population
1.4 Digital rights
1.5 Digital access to knowledge and culture
2.1 Value creation, unnovation and restructering
2.2 Digital services adapte to the needs of businesses and industry
2.3 Increased value creation based on public sector information
2.4 Electronic purchasing contributing to increase of competitiveness
2.5 The will to research
3.1 Digital interaction in the public sector
3.2 Use of open ICT standards and open source applications
3.3 Ensuring benefits realisation and new ways of working |
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The policy document |
eNorway - 2009 |
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The gender dimension |
In Norway, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) introduced in 1997 a special quota system for women in computer technology studies.
The project soon produced positive results. In the first two years, the percentage of female students increased to more than 30%.
In addition, the Government has carried into effect several initiatives to increase the number of female pupils and students taking up IT and technology-related skills.
Finally “ICT Norway”, the largest IT-organisation in Norway initiated in 2002 a special mentor-program to increase the number of women in the IT-sector, titled “OD@”.
Since 2006 women in the ICT and related sectors in Norway are organized in
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