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Best e-Europe Practices Beep Knowledge System |
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The Beep Knowledge System is now online and ready for consultation. | |
Some sample cases may be accessed by clicking here. | ||
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About the Beep Project The Best eEurope
Practices (BEEP) Project collected, analysed
and refined good practices (best practices) in a variety of socio-economic
areas, by collecting case studies and coding them according to a wide
variety of indicators . This resuledt in an extensive Beep Knowledge
System relating to employment and skills, the digital SME, social inclusion
and regional cohesion. The Beep project widely disseminated these results
both via electronic and traditional methods. |
What the Knowledge System does for You. It gives you access to hundreds of case studies covering the use of Information and communication technologies in the following areas. Click on the links to go directly to this area (domain) in the knowledge base. Information can be retrieved via a unique set of search mechanisms allowing retrieval of cases corresponding to your specific requirements. |
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Beep News The project officially ended on 31st July 2003 but work is continuing. The final report of the project is available, click here (708k zipped pdf file). The final deliverables are now available. Updated documents |
Work and Skills in the European knowledge society The work and skills domain focuses upon an individual’s skills and working environment and how they interact within the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) industry, taking into consideration the metamorphosis/changes in the new forms of working life. For example post-Fordism, lean production, flexibility, out-sourcing, group work, clustering, are some of the issues that are shaping our work-life balance. The concept and idea of a new working life has been described as a new paradigm. It is viewed as a revolutionary shift in the global economy. The link between work and skills in the “new digital working life” can be explored in socio-economic sectors such as;
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Digital SME in the European
knowledge society
The Digital SME domain focus is on SMEs best practices in exploiting the opportunities provided by ICT to improve performance. Attention is devoted to SMEs evolution and to the “external” factors, related to “digital economy”, that directly affect SMEs success and development. This focus will result in addressing:
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Social Inclusion in the European knowledge society The domain ‘social inclusion’ addresses the digital divide in Europe, and particularly those dimensions of it related to income, age, gender, ethnicity or ability. It is assumed that narrowing the digital divide is an important contribution to the larger objective of achieving sustained social inclusion in the information society. Beep showcases good practices aiming towards narrowing the digital divide. |
Regional Development in
the European knowledge society
The changes brought about by the ’Information
Society’ or ‘knowledge economy’ are normally thought of
in global or national terms. But as globalisation and the effects of new
information and communications technology (ICT) have affected us all wherever
we live, they are also restructuring and reshaping the regions, though
in a variety of ways and often with highly differentiated results. |
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