Most of REDEN Members are partners in the DEN4DEK Project. DEN4DEK is a Thematic Network financed by the European Commission ICT Policy Support Programme. Many of DEN4DEK activities are done in association with the REDEN. Click here to learn more about DEN4DEK.

Click here to read a Preliminary Final Draft of the REDEN Mission Statement

Short Description

Sustainable development of regions in the global economy requires a systemic approach that combines available resources, skills and socio-economic interactions within a territory and that considers the participation of all regional actors in the social, cultural, economic and productive processes. By using this approach of sustainable development, regions are able to offer complex services, create new market opportunities, and facilitate the combination of knowledge, capabilities and resources among regional actors in order to jointly produce and offer new services and products.


The European Commission within its 6th European R&D Framework Programme has demonstrated that ICT reveals to be the perfect instrument to support the creation of this kind of collaborative socio-economic environment that enhances productivity, competitiveness, innovation and knowledge transfer through the Digital Ecosystems platform.

Digital Ecosystems for sustainable regional development

The Digital Ecosystems Platform offers and transports services and information (knowledge)  through a technology that adapts easily to specific regional contexts. It can also describe innovative business models and adapt to their changes.


In a Digital Ecosystem, every actor, small or large enterprise, public or private body, make a simple profile description of its organisation and the platform is able to find the most efficient business links between them to increase existent activities and to create new business possibilities. By doing so, regions can integrate their actors into existent value chains and discover potential new ones. Regional actors would be able to collaborate, interact and build a community that shares business and allows knowledge transfer.


Under the European approach to Digital Ecosystems the exchanges and links are provided automatically by a peer-to-peer platform and not by a central server. The advantage of this approach is the creation of a greater number of efficient and innovative results. This approach is completely aligned with the philosophy of the Web2.0 social networking supported actively by the European Commission.

The REgions for Digital Ecosystems Network (REDEN) reunites partner European regions with a common vision on sustainable regional development enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). 

REDEN Mission

To promote the achievement of the Lisbon objectives through the Digital Ecosystems approach to sustainable regional development in order to achieve greater competitiveness of European regions in the global economy

Rationale

Digital Ecosystems existent pilot projects have demonstrated that the ideal dimension for Digital Ecosystems deployments is the regional level enabled by a regional catalyser that proves to be useful during the initial implementation phase. Also important at the regional level is the achievement of a critical mass of users that guarantees the efficiency of a Digital Ecosystem.

REDEN objectives

More precisely, REDEN objectives are to:


  1. •Apply and improve the results on research, development and deployment carried out by the Digital Ecosystems community in the last years.

  2. •Promote productivity, sustainability, quality and effectiveness in a regional context while unleashing creativity, innovation and dynamic networking, by modelling new micro and macro-economic contexts that foster the participation of European regions in economic development and by taking advantage of diversity and multidisciplinarity.

  3. •Share good practices and experiences on how to conceive a regional innovation strategy between regional authorities and regional catalysts, identifying the opportunities and obstacles encountered in implementing the Digital Ecosystems (funding, deployment, etc.), voicing them politically and finding consequent actions.

  4. •Promote the exchange of applications, the knowledge platform and business models developed progressively by the regions implementing the Digital Ecosystems.

  5. •Build progressively a “European Digital Ecosystems Scientific Community”, an interregional research cluster (universities, research centres, enterprises and regional authorities and institutions), that integrates the results from the multidisciplinary European research stemmed by the Digital Ecosystems principles.

  6. •Connect progressively in a network cluster all the regional actors connected within the regional ecosystems in order to create in the future a veritable “European Intelligent Digital Market”.


Thus, REDEN supports sustainable regional development by:


  1. •Enabling firms and workers to participate actively in the process of economic development of their regions by building business networks and business ecosystems.

  2. •Developing local skills and resources and increasing market competition through socio-economic efficient solutions.

  3. •Strengthening the interregional capacity for carrying out research activities and implementing the results of these activities, in order to maximise the regions potential to integrate into the knowledge economy and overcome the digital divide.

  4. •Promoting knowledge transfer and technical innovation, information society for sustainable development across European regions.

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For now, you can visit in the DEN4DEK website the Partners Section, and the Enlarged Community Section.

Interested in knowing more about REDEN?

The following links show the major information resources related to the REDEN

Interested in joining REDEN? Contact Us!

The REDEN is in the process of formalising its structure and appointing the coordination, the management and the Contact Points.


For now, the Reference Contacts are:


Javier Val

Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón (region of Aragon, Spain)

C/ María de Luna, 8

50018 Zaragoza, España

Tel: +34 976 716 250

Fax: +34 976 716 539

E-mail: jval@ita.es


Silvano De Iesu

Regione Lazio (Italy)

Lazio Regional Representation - EU Affairs

Rond Point Schuman, 14

1040 Brussels, Belgium

Tel: +32 2 2868 534

Fax: +32 2 2868 538

E-mail: sdeiesu@regione.lazio.it

Additionally, the DEN4DEK Project co-ordination team is appointed to serve as a contact point for REDEN.


Additional details on how to contact the DEN4DEK co-ordinators can be found here.


TECHIDEAS Asesores Tecnológicos, S.L.

Parc BCNord

Marie Curie, s/n

08042 Barcelona

Spain


Jesús E.Gabaldón

Chief Scientific Officer - Coordinator of DEN4DEK

jesus.gabaldon@techideas.es


Lorena Rivera León

Project coordination team DEN4DEK

lorena.rivera@techideas.es

Other Information Sources on Digital Ecosystems

The following web-pages show the major information sources related to the Digital Ecosystem concept and related activities. Since Digital Ecosystems are complex by definition, they evolve and co-exist with a variety of other ecosystems, the references listed below only show a diversity of views and approaches, the ones that suit better with the backgrounds of the REDEN members.


  1. • Basic documentation, books, papers, websites and other general resources

  2. • Presentations and slides, Brochures

  3. • The Digital Business Ecosystems Book (published by the European Commission)

  4. • The Projects of the Cluster “Technologies for Digital Ecosystem”

  5. • Research Teams, Communities, Pilot Projects, Software

  6. • Communities, Blogs, Forums, Wikis and Newsfeeds

  7. • Open Source Software

  8. • Digital Ecosystems Events, Conferences, Initiatives