Digital Agenda Funding

The ERNACT regions focus on adapting and transferring services, approaches or digital knowhow between regions. Please examine the following table to see a list of specific items transferred over the past few years

The ERNACT project, sponsored by the European Commission brought together a number of peripheral and central local/regional authorities of the European Union which have undertaken to work together in applying modern telecommunications to enhance the performance of their functions and, in the process, to establish interregional collaboration between them.

It was also envisaged that the project might test the relevance of telecommunications to advance the European Union ethos of economic and social cohesion. The operational management of the project was entrusted to the crossborder local authorities of Donegal County Council (Irl.) and Derry City Council (N.Irl) which established a European Economic Interest Grouping to give legal status to their role.

Strategic direction and assistance was given to the grouping by two interregional committees - one consisting of a technologist from each participating authority and the other consisting of officials and public representatives from these authorities.

A preliminary assessment indicated that there were major deficiencies in the way communications technology was applied by the participating authorities and that opportunities existed to exploit advances in the technology.