What is the MEDITERRANEAN DIGITAL SPACE?
Introduction
The Platform of the Digital Mediterranean Space (EDM) is a network of networks that essentially promoted the importance of Information and Communications Technologies (TIC) in the socio-economic and cultural strengthening, the cooperation and the sustainable development of the region converting Malaga into the Hub of the EDM and the Mediterranean region into the axis of the global information society
The EDM was conceived to build a common vision to empower citizens, companies and public entities at the municipal or regional level, promoting solidarity and trusted communications based on Information and communications technology (ICT), the most powerful tool of international cooperation.
The EDM fully supports digital solidarity mechanisms to finance education, health and e-commerce initiatives in order to reduce digital divide and strengthen local development.
Background
WISeKey participated in the inauguration of the first “Summit of Mediterranean Cities and Local Governments” celebrated in Malaga the 2, 3 October 2008. The Summit grouped two great initiatives: the inauguration of the “Summit of Cities and local Governments of the Mediterranean” and the launching of the innovating Platform of the EDM.
The Summit made of Malaga the Technological City of reference in Europe.
The EDM was launched in presence of leaders of the public and private sectors wishing to become the drivers of Mediterranean development and to collaborate in the creation of a true “MEDITERRANEAN DIGITAL SPACE”.
In 2007, WISeKey, OISTE.org and the Malaga Valley through the Technological Park of Andalusia, presented an initiative for the creation of a center for technology and citizen platform services for all the Mediterranean. This initiative has already acquired a new dimension, based essentially on the objectives established by the Union for the Mediterranean (UPM).
Functionalities
- e-Identify: Platform designed to identify and to connect the citizens, cities and local governments and company leaders, to safe and trustworthy services. It offers the opportunity to discuss and to construct together the EDM and the creation of on-line services that the different Mediterranean cities, represented by their mayors, will personalize integrating their current solutions of e-government through a unique reference position or identity: : “Soy Mediterráneo”, “I am Mediterranean”, “Je suis Méditerranéen”, “Sono Mediterraneo”, “مديترّنن أنا”.
- e-Collaboration: Platform that allows the optimization of the commercial, technological and cultural relations between the European Union and the countries of the Mediterranean and Africa. Service Center for those that do not have the means or the knowledge to develop applications that allow the creation of a local hybrid that ensures the universal access to TICs and Internet, for all the Mediterranean citizens, mainly in administration questions, culture, commerce, security and confidentiality.
- m-Services (mobility): Platform designed to create tools or services that allow the eradication of poverty and to reach the goals and objectives of sustainable development for the region. It also gives the possibility of a high level of mobile services in the areas of education, health, economy, tourism, social, politic and culture, for all the citizens of the Mediterranean countries, according to their geo-location. This will make it unique, because the EDM will take into consideration the current condition of the mobile migrant communities that are permanently increasing in the Mediterranean space.
- e-Center of encounter: Platform designed to offer space for dialog, investigation and studies. The EDM is the result of numerous investments and efforts destined to develop and convert the EDM Hub into the leader of the Euro-Mediterranean initiatives.