THE USE OF ICT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-SOCIETY IN SWEDEN AND FINLAND NETWORK SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER Seminar, June 7th, 2005 Team members Kenneth Mukasa

THE USE OF ICT FOR

THE DEVELOPMENT OF E-SOCIETY IN SWEDEN AND FINLAND

NETWORK SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTERSeminar, June 7th, 2005

Team membersKenneth Mukasa

Lv ChaoOh Eun Jung

Saqibudin MohammedDipankar Biswas

Sarja Olga

The use of ICT for development of e-society in Sweden and Finland 2

AGENDAAGENDA

Introduction

Sweden

Finland

Comparative Study

Conclusion

Q & A


IntroductionIntroduction

• Sweden and Finland are the most highly developed countries in ICT industry in the world


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• In 1999, the Government decided that Swedish ministries and the authorities should lead by example in the use of IT in Sweden

• Nearly 90% of the country’s public institutions have their own website and can be contacted via email.

1. ICT Policy


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2. Technological Situations

• More than 50% of all households in Sweden have a PC; more than50% of all Swedes have

cellular telephones; and more than 50% of all Swedish adults use the Internet.

• In the spring of 2001 nearly all companies in Sweden had access to the Internet.94% of all companies had access to the Internet and 97% used computers.


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3. E-Commerce

• E-commerce is defined as the extent to which a country business environment is ready for Internet-based commercial opportunities.

• Sweden has overtaken the US to become the leading nation in terms of E-commerce, according to new research from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU).

Sweden’s 20 largest ICT companies [ICT in fact,2003]


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4. Kista Science City• Kista Science City holding a central

position in the Stockholm region,

just 15 minutes from Arlanda

airport and 15 minutes from the city center - is one of the most

important ICT-clusters in Europe. • In the core areas of Kista alone,

some 27,000 people work in over

700 companies. Two-thirds of them are employed by companies working in the ICT area.

• E-education:

March 2002 - Swedish Net University


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1.Technology

• Finland is leading the field in a multitude of different areas of technology today. Whether it's mobile

communications and

specialist software,

diagnostics and other

aspects of health care, or advanced processes and materials.


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2. ICT InfrastructureFinland is one of the world’s most competitive economies and

most technologically developed welfare and information societies.

• Mobile - Nokia, Finland's largest company, is the world's

leading mobile phone supplier and a leading supplier of

mobile, fixed and IP networks as well as multimedia terminals.

• ISP - the Internet connections from homes still are not that

common (about 40 % of house holds).


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3. E-Commerce• All enterprises are dependent

on ICT including

telecommunication.

The move from traditional

business towards electronic

business enforces this

dependency.

ICT matters have become of

vital success for enterprises,

including SMEs (small and

medium-sized enterprises ). E-commerce by product group in January-April 2004, % of all purchasersSource: Statistics Finland, Netcommerce survey,


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4. E-Government

• Role - to create good and enabling conditions for the ICT business.

• For years encouraged competition - good

results such as high mobile phone penetration, low prices and good quality communications

services• The development of the mobile market is

extremely important for the new economy

and e-commerce in the future.


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ComparisonComparison1. General Comparison

Finland Sweden


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ComparisonComparison

Growth Competitiveness Index ranking and 2003 comparisons

Source: WEF 2004, Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005,World Economic Forum, 13 October

Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005 ranking (WEF 2004)

2. Finland’s long term growth


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Source: WEF 2005, 'The Networked Readiness Index Rankings 2004', Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005, World Economic Forum, 9 March

Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005 (WEF 2004)

3. Networked Readiness Index


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ComparisonComparison4. The most Competitive Nations 2003-2004

IMD's World Competitiveness Yearbook (IMD 2005) Source: IMD 2005, 'The world competitiveness scorecard', IMD world competitiveness yearbook 2004, International Institute for Management Development


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5. ICT expenditure in 2003

Source: (Eurostat yearbook 2004)-Economic & Monetary Affairs in the EU - http://www.eubusiness.com/Finance


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ComparisonComparison6. E-Government -1/2

Source: The European Innovation Scoreboard (EU Commission 2004b) - http://www.cordis.lu/innovation-smes/scoreboard/home.html


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ComparisonComparison7. E-Government 2/2


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ComparisonComparison8. Exports of ICT products

Leading export countries of telecom equipment within the OECDSource: Europa – Activities of EU, External Trade. http://europa.eu.int/pol/comm/index_en.htm


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ComparisonComparison8. Exports of ICT products

Source: Europa – Activities of EU, External Trade. http://europa.eu.int/comm/trade/index_en.htm


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ComparisonComparison9. Science Cities or Clusters

Finland – 22Sweden – 6 major

Kista is 5th by its size as an IT area in the world, just behind the Silicon Valley in California, Silicon Hills in Austin (Texas), Kompala (Oulu) in Finland and Silicon Fen in UK. (Source: International Real Estate Digest - http://www.ired.com/news/mkt/kista.htm)

•Innovation“The 2004 European Innovation Scoreboard (EIS) confirms Sweden and Finland as the EU's innovative leaders, with Estonia and Slovenia leading the ten new Member States.”

(Source: EU Business - http://www.eubusiness.com/EUnews/innovation.2004-11-29)


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ConclusionConclusion

-Very promising & favourable countries for global business venture, ICT-wise .......

...........besides being world models and

showcases for a functional e-ready society !


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References 2/3References 2/3The Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations (2000) [On-line] Accessed on the

February 20, 2005 at URL: http://www.un.int/finland/speechHeinonenOlliPekka.htmlDoes eGovernment Pay Off? Study on Effectiveness of ICT in the Public Sector in Europe (2005)

EGOVERNMENT ARTICLES [On-line] February 2005 at URL: http://e.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=31897

OPE.FI - ICT Teacher Training Project in Finland. 2002 Virtual school.2005 Digital teaching material.2002 Information society infrastructure. 2004 Accessed by the 2005 at the URL: http://www.edu.fi/english/SubPage.asp?path=500,572

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E-voting. Europe – IDABC database.2005Science parks(2005) [On-line] Accessed on the February 20, 2005 at URL:

http://www.tekel.fi/english/science_parks/Investment in Finland reaches a market of 80 million people (2004) Enterprise Finland [On-line]

Accessed on the February, 2005 at URL: http://www.enterprisefinland.fi/liston/portal/page.lsp?r=4300&l=en

Information and Communication Technology (2005) Investment i Finland.[On-line] Accessed on the February 20, 2005 at URL: http://www.investinfinland.fi/industries/en_GB/ict/

Klaus Schwab, 2004, Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005Helsinki 2002, Nordic information Society Statistics 2002Gull-May Holst, 2003, information and communications technology in Finland and Sweden, teldok

Report 147www.eito.com, access time: 2005-5-30


References 3/3References 3/3

European Parliament 2000, Lisbon European Council23-24.03.2000: conclusions of the presidency,http://www.europarl.eu.int/summits/lis1_en.htmEU Commission 2004a, Benchmarking enterprise policy: results from the 2004 scoreboard, Commission staff working document, Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, 10 November, SEC(2004)1427,http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/competitiveness/doc/scoreboard_2004_en.pdfEU Commission 2004b, European Innovation Scoreboard 2004, Commission staff working paper, Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, 19 November, SEC(2004) 1475,ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/cordis/docs/eis_2004_main_doc.pdfIMD 2005, 'The world competitiveness scorecard', IMD world competitiveness yearbook 2004, International Institute for Management Development,http://www.imd.ch/documents/wcc/content/ranking.pdfWEF 2004, Global Competitiveness Report 2004-2005,World Economic Forum, 13 Octoberhttp://www.weforum.org/site/homepublic.nsf/Content/Global+Competitiveness+Programme%5CGlobal+Competitiveness+ReportWEF 2005, 'The Networked Readiness Index Rankings 2004', Global Information Technology Report 2004-2005, World Economic Forum, 9 Marchhttp://www.weforum.org/pdf/Global_Competitiveness_Reports/Reports/GITR_2004_2005/Networked_Readiness_Index_Rankings.pdfReference : EU Commission 2004a, Benchmarking enterprise policy: results from the 2004 scoreboard, Commission staff working document, Commission of the European Communities, Brussels, 10 November, SEC(2004)1427,http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/competitiveness/doc/scoreboard_2004_en.pdf


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