NETWORK 2000 TELEMATICS CONSORTIUM

TRANS-EUROPEAN MEETING

TUESDAY 23 JANUARY '96
9.00am to 12 noon GMT

The meeting is being conducted by satellite broadcast and/or video-conferencing across a large number of venues in Devon, Cornwall, Bristol, London and across mainland Europe as far as Bulgaria.

TIMETABLE (GMT)

(8.30am briefing and tech in Newton Abbot Studio - key presenters/co-ordinator only)
9.00 - 9.25 am
Participants arrive at their venues: video-conference connections established/checked - telephone call-up of satellite reception points

9.30 - 9.35
Welcome & Introduction by Christine Fraser, Network 2000

9.35 - 9.40am
Technical Briefing by David Jones, AGVISION, Newton Abbot

9.40 - 9.45am
Full link up and Introduction to first presentation

9.45 - 9.55
SIGNPOST Presentation and update on this major new project being developed in West Cornwall for delivering Tourism Information via interactive computer kiosks.

SIGNPOST recently won £1m in the Rural Challenge Bid. Presentation by Mary Hodgson, West Cornwall LEADER project by video-conference from Truro.

9.55 - 10.05
Questions

10.05 - 10.15
T3. Outline of the Distance Learning Project by University of Exeter which recently made a successful bid for £1.6m grant support. Presentation by Professor Niki Davis, University of Exeter

10.15 - 10.20
Questions

10.20 - 10.25
EUTrainSAT: European Training via Satellite, a successful EC LEONARDO bid.
Presentation by Christine Fraser of Network 2000

10.25 - 10.40
RATIO "Rural Area Training & Information Opportunities in the South West - The Future Way to Train & Work". A £5.2m project to set up 40 Innovation Centres, networked, in rural (Objective 5b) areas of Devon & Cornwall, RATIO recently won a Regional Challenge Bid £1.6m.

Presentation on management, timescale, eligibility and criteria for the project. Presention by: Chris Bell of University of Plymouth and Andrew Leale of Plymouth College of FE

10.40 - 10.55
Questions

The European Year of Lifelong Learning 1996

10.55 - 10.58
Giles Chichester, MEP Devon/East Plymouth, introducing:

10.58 - 11.05
M. Jimmy JAMAR, Head of Lifelong Learning in the European Commission Directorate General XXII (Education, Training & Youth) by video-conference from Brussels

11.05 - 11.25
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Chris Yapp is the Managing Consultant in ICL's Lifelong Learning arm of Multimedia Services. He has been in the IT industry for 15 years with a range of roles, technical and managerial. He was project manager for the world's first multivendor implementation of OSI. He was involved in the ICL team with the MIT Research Programme, 'Management in the 1990's' , which created much of the conceptual work behind re-engineering.

Among other publications, he is a contributor to the DfEE's recent 'Superhighways for Education: The Way Forward' report. Chris will broadcast from the Newton Abbot studio.

Questions

11.28 - 11.30
Closing Notices - satellite airtime ends.

11.30 - 12 noon
OPEN FORUM

Video-Conferencing links and telephone switchboard maintained for any further questions to the Presenters

12 noon
END

NETWORK 2000 wishes to thank all those who have contributed to the Programme, Technical Operations, and Management of this event.

In particular, grateful thanks are due to our sponsors:

The Web Site is sponsored by Zynet, the Regional Internet Provider, a member of
Network 2000 Telematics Consortium

For further information regarding this web site, please contact:
Christine Fraser
Network 2000
Eastgate House
Princesshay
EXETER EX1 1LY

Tel: +44 (0) 1392 494210
Fax: +44 (0) 1392 413163

Email: christin@net2000.zynet.co.uk

KEY GROUPS:

UK IN DEVON AND CORNWALL:

Network 2000 Telematics Consortium Members, including:
Government Office in the South West
Business Link South West Ltd
Devon & Cornwall TEC
Business Link South West Ltd
Westcountry Development Corporation
Rural Development Commission
West Country Tourist Board
South West Enterprises Ltd
Exeter University
Plymouth University
The Open University
Colleges of Further Education
Devon County Council
Cornwall County Council
Somerset County Council (for Somerset 5b area)
District Councils
BT
ICL
Northern Telecom
Eurobell
Enterprise Agencies (Tamar, Torbay, etc.)
Sole Traders and IT companies
Training Agencies
Community Centres
Devon Community Council
Community Council of Cornwall
Westcountry TV

Participating UK Venues:

BT Goonhilly Down Satellite Earth Station (Helston), Penzance, Truro, St Austell, Plymouth, Bodmin, Okehampton, Bere Alston, Barnstaple, South Molton, Exeter, Bristol, Department of Trade and Industry (London).

MAINLAND EUROPEAN PARTICIPANTS:

  1. ICL Offices across Europe using the broadcast as the basis for in-house training on lifelong learning and the information society

  2. Transnational partners for EC funded projects:

    Network 2000 has recently won a LEONARDO bid to create a European Training by Satellite network (EUTrainSAT). Partners are:

    NORDIA OY, Helsinki, Finland
    IUC International Education, Svendborg, Denmark
    CESA, a Telematics Company in Barcelona, Spain
    EWMD (European Women's Management Development Network) Brussels
    (2,000 members in 22 countries)
    DES Training Centre in Palermo, Sicily

  3. European Lifelong Learning Initiative Network:

    University of Technology, Dipoli, Finland
    Erasmus European Centre, Rotterdam
    Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
    Czech Technical University in Prague
    Selskabet Info Commercial, Rungsted Kyst, Denmark

  4. European Commission:

    DG10 - European Satellite Co-ordination Unit
    DG22 - Lifelong Learning Unit

  5. European Space Operational Centre, Darmstadt

What is the Network 2000 Telematics Consortium?

A voluntary organisation/open forum to help drive forward telematics applications right through the community in support of economic development and learning opportunities in the region.

Aims:
To move towards a more autonomous and higher wage economy in Devon & Cornwall without damage to environmental, social and cultural life, through the use of Telematics.

*Telematics: any combination of information & telecommunication technologies and services