An innovative tool to analyze the situation of the Digital Divide in European underserved Regions Roland A. Burger, SES Astra – Sfera Conference Brussels, 9 October 2009

Agenda 1 Context of the Regional IS Dimension Internet Revolution, Wikipedia The Long Tail, Wikinomics, Future Internet Open Source ICT challenges, Sustainable Development 2 Background Decision Support Tools 3 Broadband Atlas Prototype 4 Mapping Data Plane Prototype 2

Internet Revolution 3 41% CAGR Source: Cisco Visual Networking Index – Forecast, : Web Overtakes Gopher, FTP 2000: Peer-to-peer Overtakes Web 2010: Video Content Overtakes Peer-to-Peer 2025: Video Communication Overtakes Video Content WWW 1995–2000 P2P 2000–2010 Video Content 2010–2025 Video Communication Gopher, FTP 1993– ,000 20, PB/month Internet Video to TV Internet Video to PC VoIP Video Communications Gaming P2P Web/Data

Wikipedia, Open Source Open Source: Software collaboration Wikipedia: knowledge collaboration Open Hardware

The Long Tail 5

Wikinomics 6 Wikinomics: Openess Peering Sharing Acting Globally

The Future Internet Billions of people, trillions of devices, billions of information sources connected anywhere and anytime Challenges and opportunities Internet is expanding from an information service to a critical infrastructure for all aspects of society Research aspect: Current technologies need to be improved significantly to meet the challenges of tomorrow 7

ICT potential for Sustainable development at regional level to decouple economic growth and environmental degradation to move towards a cleaner, safer and healthier environment to reduce environmental risk on society to improve efficiency in the use of raw materials / natural resources to improve energy efficiency 8

Background Decision Support and Mapping Regional Decision makers do not have always up-to-date information Nonexistent Information Information Overflow Quality of Information Have to become Proactive with a Vision 9

Broadband Atlas (BAT) Our idea is to combine a Top-Down approach with an Bottom-up approach BAT can become a sort of Wikipedia of Broadband in European Regions Official Data merged with User contributed data (for instance up/down speed measurements) 10

Mapping Interface Prototypes 11

Now follows a live demo presentation of BAT

BACKUP SLIDES

14 Regional Birds view 1 test Czech Republic Lithuania Warsaw Walbrzych Wroclaw Legnica Jelenia Góra Zielona Góra Gorzow Wielkopolski Szczecin Koszalin Stupsk Gdansk Torun Lissa Konin Posnan Pila Lódz Suwalki Lomza Bialystok Olsztyn Elblag Plock Wloalawek Radom Lublin Chelm Zamosc Krakow Kielce Czestochowa Piotrkow Przemysl Rzeszów Tarnów Bielsko-Biala Nowy Sacz

15 Test 2: Bulgaria Pernik Vidin Montana Vraza Pleven Rousse Weliko Tarnovo Silistra Dobritc Rasgrad Sumen Targoviste Lovetsch Gabrovo Sliven Plovdiv Stara Zagora Haskovo Kardshali Blagoevgrad Pasardshik Smoljan Kjustendil Sofia grad Sofia Oblast Jambol Burgas Varna

16 Poland – Administrative districts overview Warminsko- Mazurskie Wielpolskie Malopolskie Podkarpackie Pommorskie Zachodnio- pomorskie Podlaskie Kujawsko- Pomorskie Mazowieckie Lebuskie Dolnoslaskie Lódzkie Lubelskie Swietokrzyskie Opolskie Slaskie

Poland – Cities, Regional Data Screen 17 Warsaw Krakow Gdansk Wroclaw Warsaw

18 Poland Regional Overview Screen Warminsko- Mazurskie Wielkopolskie Malopolskie Podkarpackie Pomorskie Zachodniopomorskie Podlaskie Kujawsko- Pomorskie Masowieckie Lubuskie Dolnoslaskie Lódzkie Lubelskie Swietokrzyskie Opolskie Slaskie

19 Poland – Highlight Regional Data Screen Wielkopolskie This design test is meant to be displayed at the sub-regional zooming level of the Sfera Tool

20 Poland – Highlight districts from Screen interface Dolnoslaskie Prototype for zooming out of selection

21 Poland – Numerical Figures Screen Placeholder with Dummy Data Dummy numbers Just as a means to test some data representation

22 Poland – Indicators Diagram Screen East West North South Sfera Ind A Sfera Ind B Sfera Ind C North East West South Datafield 1 Aggregation Data. Datafield 2 Aggregation Data. Datafield 3 Aggregation Data. Datafield 4 Aggregation Data. Datafield 5 Aggregation Data. Datafield 6 Aggregation Data.

23 Region 1 Region 2 Region 3 Region 4 Poland – Diagrams Sfera Ind A Sfera Ind B Data Level Zoom 1 Data Level Zoom 2 Data Level Zoom 3 Data Zoom Level 1

24 Poland – Sfera Index Diagrams Sfera Index A Sfera Index B Sfera Index C Sfera Index D Sfera Index E

25 Poland – Sfera Dashboard Diagrams Description B Description C Description A Description D Data Placeholder 1 Data Placeholder 2 Data Placeholder 3 Sfera Regional data visualisation, statistics and analyses