Action Themes and Illustrative Flagship Projects

Action Themes

Digital Communications – Action Theme 1
This is the decade of digital communication between computers and other devices, particularly over the Internet. Our goal is to create a digital communications infrastructure in Leicestershire where everyone can access broadband services, at a level, cost and quality that equals the best available in comparative (competitor) areas in the UK. At the same time it will offer world-class communications and managed ICT services for selective flagship sites.

eBusiness – Action Theme 2
The generation and use of knowledge is one of the most important ways of generating wealth. The Internet and the protocol that it runs on, coupled with pervasive computing and cheap, efficient digital communications, are transforming traditional models of doing business. Converging technologies are fundamentally changing the way goods and services are carried out. Our research shows that Leicestershire businesses are arguably behind other areas in their adoption of eBusiness. Our goal for eBusiness, therefore, is to create a business environment within Leicestershire where large and small businesses use ICT to increase profitability throughout.

eLearning and ICT skills – Action Theme 3
To achieve our vision of a knowledge economy in Leicestershire, we need to ensure that every person and every organisation in Leicestershire has the ICT skills and knowledge to utilise and exploit ICT at work, in the home, for learning, in public service delivery and elsewhere. We expect individuals and businesses to be raising their knowledge and skills through the widespread use of eLearning that is delivering interactive, media-rich content over high-speed networks

eServices – Action Theme 4
The development of the knowledge economy in Leicestershire requires the efficient delivery of public services at both a local and national level. The electronic enablement and integrated delivery of these services not only will enable businesses to become more productive but will help ensure that individuals have the ICT awareness and skills needed to sustain the knowledge economy

Illustrative Flagship Projects

Actions targeting issues and opportunities in each action theme form the centrepiece of the strategy but it is equally important to bring these together, in the form of flagship projects based on combinations of actions, designed to target key knowledge economy projects and opportunities. Examples of projects are given.