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Standard regional profile

This is probably readily available from existing development studies and the normal work of the regional planning authority and should cover, in principle, all relevant regional planning aspects given the inter-linked nature of any region’s push and pull factors likely to be relevant in attracting or retaining eWork:

• demographic characteristics

• economic structure and prospects

• business and employment (structure, types, costs, profitability, etc.)

• regional labour market conditions, the workforce and human capital, including skills, qualifications and competencies, social partners, relationships, plus employment, participation and wage rates, etc. (see eWork skills and knowledge management and labour markets and regional development)

• housing and properties

• community services and facilities, including education/training, health, etc.

• transport nodes, routes and facilities

• land use and infrastructure, including utilities

• local administration and government.
   

ICT profile

This will probably be much more difficult to construct than the standard regional profile as it is unlikely that any centralised overview of ICT supply and demand in the area exists. In some cases, therefore, a survey of the characteristics, needs and plans both of user and of suppliers could be useful. The ICT profile should attempt to ascertain the existing state of the following, plus likely developments over, say, the next five years in the absence of any specific initiatives:

• existing supply of ICT infrastructure and services available, including market structure and players, cost structures and prognoses

• services, applications and equipment used by the main types of users

• special facilities or activities (such as telecentres, teleworking, eCommerce initiatives, eGovernment developments, etc.)

• incipient, established and potential networks and partnerships exploiting ICT and eWork or with potential to do so, including PPPs (public-private-partnerships), NGOs (Non-Governmental Organisations) and other interest group involvement.

• existing policy and regulatory situation affecting particularly the ICT and labour market situations.

Reference to supply side dynamics of regional ICT and use of ICT and the digitisation of work may be useful in this context.

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