eTampere program - Networks
eTampere in many networks
eTampere’s aims included bringing together various players to generate multi-disciplinary and versatile discussion, transferring experience and generating new knowledge and novel cooperation. eTampere played a part in the emergence and activities of a number of new networks which have been of benefit to companies, research institutions, government players and citizens.
One of eTampere’s aims was to bring together different players to raise rich cross-disciplinary discussion, to exchange experiences and to create new knowledge and a new kind of cooperation. eTampere was involved in the creation of many new networks and activities. All these networks have been of benefit to business, government, citizens and research institutes.
Examples of networks:
eTampere’s Working Committee: an active network that assembled at least once a week between 2001 and 2005 for discussion, to share information and to come up with new ideas.
eTampere’s Steering Group: a network which also comprised representatives of the Council of Tampere Region, Tekes, Tampere Chamber of Commerce & Industry and several companies.
TYK trainers: computer and data network trainers in Tampere who are responsible for basic guidance in the use of a computer, for example.
Information Society Observatory: a network of social-scientific knowledge society research
www.uta.fi/laitokset/ISI/Observatorio/Index.html.
W3C office: rules and technologies of the internet. www.w3c.tut.fi/.
eGovernment: a national and international research network on electronic governance.
Smart Cities: international smart card network.
G-Nike: a project aiming to develop a Strategic Road Map on ICT-enabled growth nodes in Europe.
UMEDIA: a consortium aiming to establish a European Network of Excellence (NoE) in Multimedia Technology.
eBRF: an international border-crossing research conference on business in the knowledge society.
www.ebrf.fi
MORESS: international information archives in social sciences and humanities.
DBE: Digital Business Ecosystems.
http://www.digital-ecosystem.org/html/
ICT and Baltia: the Baltic States and the knowledge society.
www.baltic.org/
Neogames: the national games cluster.
www.neogames.fi/english.htm
Detect-IT: IT cluster and research.
www.hermiayrityskehitys.fi/detectit/
Stanford cooperation: cooperation in licensing.
Global Software: a business development, marketing and networking programme for leading Finnish software-intensive companies targeting or investigating global markets with a focus on North America.
www.kotu.oulu.fi/projektit/globalsoftware/
Hermia Business Angel Club
http://www3.hermia.fi/in_english/
Cogain: NOE network developing gaze-based communication for special groups.
http://www.cogain.org
COSS: open source developers’ network.
http://www.coss.fi
Media and Everyday Life programme
Espon project: European Spatial Planning and Observation Network.
www.espon.lu/
V2C (Venture-to-Capital): a new scientific concept and research group devoted to the means and ways of crossing the gap between Venture and Capital.
http://www.ebrc.info/v2cforum2005/
@work: an EC activity on new forms of work
Zernike: the biggest private science park in Europe
EBN: the leading European network of 160 business and Innovation centres (BICs) and similar organizations such as incubators, innovation centres and entrepreneurship centres.
www.ebn.be
eCitizen: a network promoting eGovernment actions in European cities.
TeleCities: a knowledge society forum for European cities.
Major Cities: Network of ICT Directors.
WIPO: Word Intellectual Property Organization.
IANIS+: European local information society network.
www.ebrc.fi: eBRC online service.
