CORA autumn workshop series: digital transformation in rural areas
The aim of the series of the CORA online workshops is to sensitise and inspire the attendees, provide them with practical knowledge and concrete guidelines on different topics of the digital transformation in rural areas in the North Sea Region:
- Workshop 1: Integrated Strategy, KPIs and Funding
- Workshop 2: Smart devices and IoT
- Workshop 3: Digital skills for employees
- Workshop 4: Stakeholder and Citizen Participation
- Workshop 5: Digitalisation of businesses
- Workshop 6: Cyber Security
The attendees will meet and exchange with experts and stakeholders and will gain knowledge on practical ways of approaching the digital transformation in a municipality. The workshops are free and open to everyone interested. The workshops will take place end October and in November 2022. We will soon provide more details and registration for each workshop.
Workshop 1: Integrated Strategy, KPIs and Funding
This workshop will provide guidelines and insight on why a digital transformation strategy for a small municipality is necessary, how it is structured and what an implementation process might look like. Next to a general review of digitalisation and digital transformation, we will look into Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of the digital strategy and explore ways of funding and financing and three good practice examples. The workshop will tackle the complete cycle of a digital strategy: from the first ideas to the implementation.
Workshop 2: Smart devices and IoT
This workshop will deliver a holistic experience on Smart Devices and IoT for municipalities. The main goal is to generate insights and inspire municipalities to better understand how these Technologies can be applied in an optimal way to their specific realities.
Workshop 3: Digital skills for employees
To not leave anyone behind, a municipality needs skilled employees to support citizens in using more digital services. Therefore, this workshop focuses on the importance of digital skills in times of continuous digital change and transformation.
Workshop 4: Stakeholder and Citizen Participation
This workshop explores why stakeholder and citizen participation is important and examines how they can be engaged. The event will include examples from municipalities already undertaking these activities.
Workshop 5: Digitalisation of businesses
This workshop looks into why supporting digitalisation of businesses, particularly in rural areas, is important and examines how they can be engaged. Representatives from municipalities active in this field will join the workshop and share their experience.
Workshop 6: Cyber Security
This workshop will deliver a holistic experience on Cyber Security for municipalities. The workshop will raise awareness among municipalities about security in computer networks and help better understand how digital and information technologies can be applied to their specific realities in a secure way.