TIEKE

Please provide a short presentation of your organisation (key activities, affiliations etc...) relating to the domain covered by the project
TIEKE (Finnish Information Society Development Centre) has a key networking role as a neutral and non-profit organisation in promoting the efforts of its members, within the public and private sectors alike, with an ultimate goal to create viable tools and expertise for use in the information society. TIEKE's membership mirrors the entire spectrum of Finnish society and all key players in the information society, with over 100 organisations and companies. Members represent enterprises who develop, manufacture, market, and support ICT products and services, as well as companies and organisations who deploy ICT in their operations, and also several ministries and public agencies, some directly involved in Information Society development.

TIEKE has links with global networks such as UN, EU, ICT associations and ministerial networks. It has been actively involved in projects in South Africa, Ethiopia, Nicaragua and Vietnam. TIEKE's e-skills examinations have played a key role in these.

Please describe the role of the organisation in the project
Contributes to WP2 Field Research. Specific study on country Finland (including identification of Exemplars). Advice to other partners' country/region reports based on prior international experience (outside Europe) - in particular for East Asia and for Nordic Council and Baltic countries.

Contributes to WP1 - attends all partner meetings and coordinates budgets and tasks within own institution.

Contributes to WP3 Analysis and Recommendations. Contributes Finland map (or maps - e.g. also for Åland Islands and Sami areas) to Task 2: influence maps. Contributes to subtask 3.4: Ministry-level policy recommendations, with a focus on more general ICT policy issues for nation states. Does a case study.

Contributes to WP7 Dissemination - in particular at ministerial-level conferences.

Contributes to WP8 Exploitation - comments on EWG outputs.

Contributes to WP9 Quality and Evaluation - self-evaluation, responding to evaluator questionnaires and requests.

Project Representative

 * Mari-Brita Suvanto

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