Building the Information Society in Candidate Countries? A

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction p.5

2. The specific context for IS developments in Candidate Countries p.7

2.1 Infrastructures p.7

2.2 Info-structures p.11

2.3 Capabilities and skills p.13

2.4 Assessment of the present IS in CCs p.16

3. Transferable lessons from some ICT-related EU15 experiences? p.17

3.1 A decade of EU15 experiences p.17

3.2 Seven factors that strongly affected ICT-related developments in EU15 p.19

3.3 Potentials for a CCs ICT industry-led IS development p.23

4. Conclusions: integrating IS Strategies in an inclusive and sustainable growth-oriented

development vision in CCs p.29

4.1 Bread or Broadband? p.29

4.2 Emulating or Learning p.29

4.3 ICT sector or ICT Users p.29

4.4 Doomed to Acquis Compliance, or benefiting from EU Membership p.30

4.5 Building infrastructures but also conditions for services and citizenship p.30

4.6 Institutional creativity: need- and user-defined societal project management rather than

industrial/technological project objectives p.31

4.7 Targeting the Knowledge-based society: Economy and Democracy p.31

Main (IPTS) references for data used in this report p.33

List of experts from the Panel Workshop (February 2003) p.34

Annexes p.35