December:
eBusiness Conference : the way Forward - Cambridge, UK : 5-6 December
2005 - conference organised by the European Commission [pdf]
- Session
"Digital Ecosystems for SMEs: roots, multiplier effects and regional growth
stakes"
November: DBE at WSIS - The Digital Business Ecosystem project has been selected among the 10 EU projects which will be presented at the European Commission stand at the ICT4all exhibition [http://www.expo.ict4all-tunis.org/] at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) 15-19 November 2005, in Tunis KramPal Expo.
September 2005: The 5th Call for project proposals of the IST-FP6 "FP6-2002-IST-5" closed September 22nd. The text of the workprogramme included the strategic objective "2.5.8 ICT for Networked Businesses" which was open for STREPs and NoE in the "Digital ecosystems" sector, plus for horizontal actions
Focus1. Digital business ecosystems for SMEs. Research in this area will aim at providing an open-source environment and suitable operative models enabling small- and medium-sized organisations to co-operate, through the implementation of dynamic virtual organisations, in production of software services, components and applications that are suited to local/regional business needs across the enlarged European Union. The work covers the design, development and take-up of flexible and adaptable software applications which are interoperable with proprietary systems, to support the spontaneous composition, sharing, distribution, adaptation and evolution of business solutions and knowledge. Special emphasis will be laid on open-source, distributed, collaborative, self-adaptive and easy-to-use environments for small organisations. Instruments: STREPs, NoEs
July, 12th, 2005 - Aragon (Spain): A public DBE node is active in Aragon, the first services has been published
July, 6th to 9th, 2005 - Ostuni (Italy): eBusiness Management School - Advanced International Summer School on: " The emergence of novel organisational forms in the globalising planet: Toward the business ecosystem?" [Brochure] [F.Nachira speech: Digital Business Ecosystems: ICT in support of Lisbon Agenda (slides ppt)]
June- 14-15th 2005 - Tampere (Finnland) two-day DBE coding-camp - During the event, one Driver SME's put up a planet that aggregates the SME blogs related to DBE development in Finland. The Planet will be moved soon under the DBE project domains. Other regions are welcome to utilise the same planet. Planet DBE is a collection of blog postings from people and communities involved in the Digital Ecosystems.If you blog about DBE-related subjects, please contact Henri Bergius to get your feed aggregated here.
June-2005 - Bruxelles: "Information Society Policy Link" Initiative, PROMIS project policy workshop: "Relevance of eResources for the future of European SMEs" [D5 presentation in ppt] [in pdf]
June-2005 - Kracov (Poland)
EISCO 2005 (European Information society Conference of local
and regional governments) ended with THE
CRACOW DECLARATION ON LOCAL AGENDA: i2010 in Europe and the promotion
of digital solidarity among the cities of the world"; it includes 10 goals,
among them"Digital ecosystems and training centers".
A list of key
issues has been annexed.
Speech of
Gérald Santucci: "the i2010 (eEuropee): New
Horizons, New Tasks for Local and Regional Governments - This conference “Digital
Ecosystems”:The Next Frontier forSMEs and EuropeanLocal Regional Clusters?"
[slides in
pdf, in ppt]
[speech]
June-2005 - The open source community startes to work on the DBE components and to use for development, first bottom-up use cases; also here. The first company is the micro-enterprise Yucatan from Tampere (Finland)
May-2005 - First releases of components of the digital ecosystem infrastructure available on sourceforge:
May 24th, 2005 - Brussels, (Belgium): Call
5 Information Day on "ICT for Enterprise Networking"
- FP6 IST Call 5 WP 2005-2006
The objective of this event was to present the next call Strategic Objective
2.5.8. "ICT for Networked Businesses" and its three focuses. The key
presentations are available here.
Spring-2005: Bruxelles. A cycle of seminars for focusing the digital ecosystem concept.
January-2005: 18-19-20/1/2005 : First annual review of the Digital Business Ecosystem project. Successfull demonstarion of the initial DBE prototype.
December-2004: 9-10/12/2004 : Cluster Meeting of the project of the Unit "ICT for Enterprise Networking".
Introductory presentation [Pdf (4MB)] [keynote (4 MB)]
Slides with the conclusions of the Cluster “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems” [Pdf] [Powerpoint] [Keynote] and summary of the meeting of the Cluster “Technologies for Digital Ecosystems” [Pdf]
September-2004: 14/9/2004 : IANIS (Innovative Actions Network for the Information Society) network and DG-INFSO have co-organised a Workshop on Knowledge-based economy, regional innovation systems, digital business ecosystems and complex adaptive systems
July-2004: Two new regions signed the joining agreement with the digital ecosystem initiative:
June-2004: The cluster "Technologies for digital ecosystems
- Supporting Regional Growth and Innovation of
Business Ecosystems" has been created: The first projects belonging to
this cluster are:
May-2004: The new sector: "Technologies for Business Ecosystems" has been created within the D5 Unit: "ICT for Business".
November-2003: Start of DBE project which includes 3 pilot regions acting as pilots in ditial ecosystem initiative Tampere (Finland); West-Midlands (UK); Aragon (Spain)
October-2003: eChallenge Conference, Bologna(Italy), presentation of DBE project in the workshops:
October-2003: IST2003 Conference, Milano(Italy) , presentation of Digital Ecosystem concept in the sessions:
April 2003: The 1st Call for Proposals of the IST-FP6 "FP6-2002-IST-1" (closing date April 2003) was launched under the FP6-IST programme. One of the areas addressed was "Networked Business and Governments" which included in its focus "IST as driver for small business and government reorganisation through local development processes including small business ecosystems" and "multidisciplinary researches into complex adaptive and self-organising systems". Some proposals related to the Digital Ecosystems concept have been submitted two proposals have been evaluated of quality above the treshold.
One proposal, DBE "Digital Business Ecosystem" has been selected for funding and has started November 1st, 2003. All the results of the project are open source and publicly available, and could be founded on the DBE-Collabnet website.
Preliminary Workshops 2002
A set of workshops have been organised for verifying the interest of the European research community to invest in the Digital Ecosystem area. Also objective of the workshops was to disseminate the information, to improve and enrich the digital ecosystem concept.
First Workshop (Brussels, Oct 4)
A 1st brainstorming workshop took place in Brussels, 4 October 2002, to discuss the validity and the interest of the Digital Business Ecosystems concept for small organisations.
The debate confirmed that DBE is a complex and ambitious field of research whose outcomes could produce innovation in the local business and could have an impressive positive economic impact. The participants decided to further investigate the concept and to explore if a large research initiative could be launched (summary of conclusions .pdf)
Second Workshop (Copenhagen, Nov 6)
In the framework of the annual conference organised by DG-INFSO: IST 2002 Conference - Copenhagen, 6 November the Workshop "Organisational ecosystems for SMEs" took place.
Third Workshop: Brainstorming "e-Business for SMEs in the FP6" (Brussels, Dec 17)
Main topic of this workshop, specifically targeted to SMEs and incubators was "how the area of eBusiness could continue supporting the transition of SMEs towards the digital age.
September-2002: The Commission publishes the Discussion Paper "Towards a network of digital business ecosystems" and asks for a feedback.
October 2006 - A Conference launching the "Digital Ecosystem" concept, organised by the European Commission, is planned for October 2006 in Brussels .
June -2006- A Conference about the "Digital Ecosystem" concept, organised by the DBE project, is planned for June 2006.
September 14th-16th -2005 - IDIMT-2005 13th Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks - Session F) Digital Business Ecosystems for SMEs (Budweis - Ceské Budejovice, Czech Republic) . This session is introduced by a keynote paper attributed to Anton Lavrin . This keynote paper appears to be a derivative work; it includes and rephrases the documents produced by the European Commission (e.g.[1] [2] [3] ) and by the DBE scientific community ([4]) during the last three years, although it does not include any reference to the original papers or to the DBE community or websites ([5] [6]).