ThemesThis area of the website is dedicated to the specific research in Digital Europe. For an over view of the project see About Digital Europe. For information on the project partners see Partners.
Core research
Digital Europe focused its research in three key themes in ebusiness:
1. Resource efficiency and dematerialization
2. Corporate responsibility
3. Regional development
NEW - Final theme reports and summaries
These are the final theme reports detailing the research and results of the three strands of the project. Each report has a summary available. These links take you to the reports' respective publication pages
Virtual dematerialisation and factor X
Social responsibility in the information society
Ebusiness and sustainable regional development in Europe
First Drafts of Theme reports
These were submitted to the European Commission in July 2002 and formed the basis for the expert seminar held in Brussels in October 2002.
Virtual_dematerialization.pdf (1.1MB)
Social_responsibility.pdf (1MB)
Sustainable_regions.pdf (1.3MB)
The State of the Art review
One of the earliest project deliverables has been the State of the Art Review. It provides an overview of ebusiness and sustainable development in Europe and may be downloaded from here:
The State of the Art Review (Word, 555k)
Case studies
At the core of the project are case studies exploring how each corporate partner is using ebusiness to promote social and environmental sustainability.
AOL Europe
Barclays Bank
EMI
Global eSustainability Initiative (GeSI)
Hewlett-Packard
Welsh Assembly Government
Projekt Ruhr GmbH
Vodafone
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