CARPE DIGEM kicks off on 24 Sept 2019 in Nevers, France.
The project partners recognise that digital transformation is more than speeding the uptake of digital technologies in Peripheral and Emerging Regions. CARPE DIGEM is about how to create functioning Digital Innovation Ecosystems (DIGEM) with their RTDI skills, packages and delivery mechanisms within government, civil society and business that are required to convert the use and application of new technologies into economic and social opportunity.
This requires investments in structures, strategies, tools and people that both complement and enhance the impact of the technology itself; in competences and skills, in organizational change, in new processes, business and governance models, and also in the intellectual assets that help create value from the new technologies.
This element of transformation is more complex and requires greater investments than the diffusion of the technologies themselves. Moreover, it has been moving more slowly, particularly in regions outside the economic and social mainstream, where the impacts of new technologies are often complex
This first meeting will serve as a 'capacity building' event to prepare the partnership to set up, manage and monitor the processes at the core of our project.
About CARPE DIGEM
CARPE DIGEM, co-funded by the European Union through the Interreg Europe program, is a 3-year project led by Digital Nièvre Joint Authority bringing together partners from Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Sweden, France, and Slovenia.