Title
The title of this workshop is “Developing Broadband in Poland – Strategies, Impacts and Experiences”.
Date and venue
This workshop was organized by BReATH contractor NIT. It was held at the NIT premises in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday 15 November 2006. Accommodation information is available here.
Objectives
The objectives of the workshop were the following:- to expose best practice approaches for deployment and exploitation from Poland and other countries
- to identify possible scenarios for public/private partnerships
- to bring together stakeholders in the broadband value chain.
Agenda
The agenda is shown below; it is also available from the workshop’s page on the NIT website.
08:45 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 - 09:20 Welcome and introduction
– Prof Janusz Granat, NIT, Poland
09:20 - 09:30 BReATH project - results and tasks ahead
– Mr Rene Kramer, BReATH Project Manager, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
09:30 - 10:45 Session I – Strategies for broadband development
09:30 - 09:45 Developing the strategy for the Mazowieckie region
– Mr Slawomir Nowak, Ms Joanna Pater, Ms Barbara Zagaja, Marshall Office of the Mazowieckie Voivodship, Poland
09:45 - 10:00 Broadband development in the Podlaskie region
– Mr Stanislaw Ceran, Marshall Office of the Podlaskie region, Poland
10:00 - 10:10 Broadband development in the city of Lodz
– Mr Jacek Zielinski, City of Lodz, Poland
10:10 - 10:15 Techno-economic analysis of broadband development for the city of Lodz
– Mr Marcin Salwa, NIT, Poland
10:15 - 10:30 Four Years into the ACTNOW public/private partnership aimed at bringing about economic change in Cornwall UK through the development of ICT and Broadband
– Mr Julian Cowans, Mr Nigel Ashcroft, Cornwall Enterprise, UK
10:30 - 10:45 Evolution of broadband services
– Mr Adam Kapovits, EURESCOM, Germany
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:10 Session II – Impact of broadband development for regions
11:00 - 11:15 Structural funds for broadband development in Poland
– Mr Wojciech Sadowicz, Cities on Internet association, Poland
11:15 - 11:35 Digital divide
– Mr Guido Acchioni, European Commission, Directorate General Information Society and Media
11:35 - 11:50 User aspects of broadband in Europe – attitudes and service preferences
– Mr Milon Gupta, EURESCOM, Germany
11:50 - 12:10 Regional broadband analysis – project Understand
– Mr Jacek Pucher, Marshal Office of the Wielkopolska Voivodship, Poland
12:10 - 13:15 Lunch break
13:15 - 14:45 Session III – Experience in broadband deployment
13:15 - 13:35 The world beyond hotspots: metro WiFi
– Mr Gert Bos, The Cloud, The Netherlands
13:35 - 13:55 Public-private partnership
– Mr Artur Kolesinski, TPSA, Poland
13:55 - 14:15 Experience of CISCO in the broadband development in Poland
– Mr Piotr Skirski, Cisco, Poland
14:15 - 14:30 Municipal Broadband: Good or Bad?
– Mr Robert Goodfellow, GTel Consultancy Ltd., UK
14:30 - 14:45 National and structural funds in broadband development in Hungary
– Mr Mihaly Csoto, Information Society and Trend Research Institute, Hungary
14:45 - 14:55 Coffee break
14:55 - 16:10 Session IV – Cases of broadband development
14:55 - 15:10 Analysing Broadband Access for Rural Development – European experiences and project recommendations
– Mr Pawel Radziulis, ITTI Ltd., Poland
15:10 - 15:30 Digital Poland of Everyone – What do we need Broadband for?
– Ms Monika Jaranowska, Polish Competence Center for eGovernment and eEducation, Poland
15:30 - 15:45 Progress in developing broadband in the Czech Republic
– Dr Anton Kuchar, IREE, Czech Republic
15:45 - 15:55 Project Resman
– Mr Leslaw Bandur, Rzeszow City Hall, Poland
15:55 - 16:10 An Outline of JASPERS for Broadband Project
– Mr Waldemar Jastrzemski, JASPERS, Poland
16:10 - 16:40 Panel Discussion
16:40 - 16:45 Closing comment 16:45 - 18:00 Cocktail party and informal discussion The presentations are available by clicking on the respective links in the agenda above. The results as well as all other aspects of this workshop are described in deliverable D1.6 part 1. There were 116 registrants to the workshop. The attendees included representatives from: The figure below graphically shows the distribution of the participants over various categories. If you have any questions about this workshop, you can contact Ms Ewa Kapusciarek of NIT, organizer of the workshop and contractor within BReATH.
Moderator: Goff Hill
Presentations
Results
Contact