W5: Financing and facilitating broadband projects
The workshop will bring together local and regional actors with other stakeholders to share guidance and best practice on financing and facilitating broadband roll-out with a view to develop broadband projects proposals in the context of rural and regional development (Digital Agenda action 48).

Center Borschette (Getting bottom-up broadband), Autoworld (Facilitating wide-scale broadband), 16/06/2011 (9:30-13:30)

The workshop will bring together policy markers, local and regional actors with other stakeholders to share guidance and best practice on financing and facilitating broadband roll-out with a view to develop broadband projects proposals, including in the context of rural and regional development (Digital Agenda action 48).

Due to a significant interest in this workshop from the stakeholder community and demand for broader coverage of the Digital Agenda's Pillar 4 issues, we have decided to divide workshop 5 into two parallel sessions.

The 1st parallel workshop (Getting bottom-up broadband projects up and running) aims at:

  • (a) evaluating the pros and cons of identified bottom-up investment models
  • (b) discussing what is still needed to stimulate investment in viable broadband projects and
  • (c) enabling regional and local actors to develop concrete broadband projects proposals

This workshop is linked to Big Idea 5 (bottom-up broadband).

Session (Getting bottom-up broadband projects up and running) organiser: Guido ACCHIONI (European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Belgium)

The 2nd parallel workshop (Facilitating wide-scale broadband investments) aims at:

  • (a) presenting a range of on-the-ground investment projects, exploring the challenges of securing investments from a variety of players to meet the DAE broadband targets, with a particular focus on the role of telecom operators;
  • (b) discussing innovative regulatory measures to facilitate and reduce the costs of the network roll-out process.

Session (Facilitating wide-scale broadband investment) organiser: Katarzyna SZCZUKA (European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Belgium)

Workshop links and documents

Session organiser: Guido ACCHIONI (European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, Belgium)

Workshop hashtag

#daa11broadband

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Digital Agenda Assembly 2011 »Digital Agenda Assembly 2011
Day 1 – 16 June 2011 »Day 1 – 16 June 2011
Workshops – Day 1 »Workshops – Day 1
2: Connection & Innovation (Day 1) »2: Connection & Innovation (Day 1)
W5: Financing and facilitating broadband projects
Facilitating wide-scale broadband investments »Facilitating wide-scale broadband investments
Getting bottom-up broadband projects up and running »Getting bottom-up broadband projects up and running
A48: Use structural funds to finance the high-speed networks roll-out »A48: Use structural funds to finance the high-speed networks roll-out
w02: High Speed Connections »w02: High Speed Connections
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