Project type:
Dissemination
Web site:
http://www.winnovate.eu
Starting date:
1 May 2009
Ending date:
31 October 2011
Scientific coordinator:
Dr. George Giaglis
Contact:
Groups:
WRC Description
WiNNOVATE aims at strengthening the innovation capacity of regional and municipal authorities in Greece,
Spain, Italy and Slovenia by transferring knowledge and best practices, as well as coordinating policies,
on the introduction and proliferation of wireless applications and services for citizens, government, and
economic development actors. More specifically, the project will leverage and cross-fertilize existing
wireless infrastructures (local and metropolitan wireless networks), define and experiment pilot applications
that will add value on these infrastructures for the benefit of end users, and propose policy interventions
at the regional, national and transnational levels. We will define an operational toolkit positioning regions
in terms of maturity and capacity levels for the introduction and use of innovative WiFi- and WiMAX-based
applications and services and use this as a guiding vehicle for the gradual increase of wireless innovation
potential for any given region in the Med space. We will jointly establish the specifications and pilot one
wireless information service per region, delivering concrete results and acting as a proof-of-concept for the
operational toolkit. The project's main outcomes will be: a reusable methodological approach for assessing and
guiding regional authorities towards wireless innovation, working pilot applications at each participating region,
evaluation of the lessons learnt by the pilots, and a set of policy recommendations.
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