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Summary of the
expertise on the Communication of the Commission of European Communities
to the
European Council and European Parliament
‘Better access
for rural areas to modern ICT’
COM(2009)103
The European Commission (KE) in its Communication notes that the use of
information and communication technologies (ICT) on farms, agrifood sector,
entrepreneurs, business-related institutions, producer groups from rural area
can be a factor determining an increase in their competitiveness on local,
regional and global markets leading to the scale effect.
As regards farms and agrifood sector, the European Commission notes that
a lack of effective mechanism of popularising the advantages of ICT
implementation has a negative effect on the agrifood sector, which results in:
limiting the competitiveness of farmers, lack of innovative farm management
forms implementation, limiting the adjustment of the enterprise to changing
market requirements, limiting growth and quality enhancement of produce, lack
of knowledge about the changes in market trends, limited access to knowledge
and new technologies, limited use of new e-services available.
Common ICT implementation to agrifood sector and farms as well as Micro,
Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprise Sector in rural areas can, however, have a
positive effect on establishing cooperation, enhancing competitiveness, increasing
efficiency, shortening working time connected with commercial transactions (e-commerce,
e-business), implementing rationalisations and innovations, developing new activity, diversifying
farmer’s income, economic and social development in a given region.
The Commission, realising an essential difference in the degree of ICT
use in rural and urban areas, points to the necessity of continued actions to
ensure the access to broadband Internet and ICT implementation, allocating
additional funds for that purpose,
According
to the Communication of the European Commission, the scope of activities
connected with ICT implementation, especially in the agrifood sector and
forestry, has been still insufficient. A lack of awareness of the benefits of
the widely understood information and communication technologies is a reason
for a missing interest in ICT implementation by agrifood sector entrepreneurs.
The Commission, in its
guidelines, shows that the ICT actions should cover ‘activities such as PC
ownership, professional ICT and e-business training for farmers, food
processors, rural agricultural and non-agricultural businesses as well as
digital literacy actions for the rural population’.
The expertise has
been commissioned by the Employers-Lessors and Farm Owners Association as part of the project of
the Office of the Committee for European Integration ‘Reinforcement of the
active participation of Poland
in the EU legislation co-financed from the funds of the Norwegian
Financial Mechanism. |
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CONFERENCE AGENDA
“Transfer of knowledge
and new services to agricultural enterprises – carrying out of the KIGNET
project”
SESSION I
11.00-11.15 Opening
the conference
President
of Management Roman Wiatrowski
11.15-11.30 “Services
for enterprises within a chamber network KIGNET in Poland”
Barbara
Kosicka – KIGNET Office Director – Domestic Chamber of Commerce
11.30-11.45 “Transfer of knowledge and new services to
agricultural enterprises – carrying out of the project KIGNET”
Hanna
Łowicka – project coordinator
11.45-12.00 “Legislation solutions from the aspect of
development of agricultural enterprises and rural areas”
Senator
Józef Łyczak
12.00-12.20 “Financing development of agricultural
enterprises from structural funds in the years 2007-2013”
Beata Nawrocka –
Director of Agency for Restructuring and Agriculture Modernization (local
branch)
12.20-12.40 “Actions by Federation of Associations with
the aim of supporting development of agricultural enterprises”
Leszek Dereziński –
President of Federation of Employers-Lessors and Farm Owners Associations in Warsaw
12.40-13.00 Coffee
break
SESSION II
13.00-13.15 “Using
IT techniques in enterprises of the agricultural sector”
Dr inż. M. Zajdel –
Department of Management, The University
of Technology and Life Sciences in Bydgoszcz
13.15-13.40
“Assisting livestock production management”
Krzysztof
Świątczak – President of KST K/fONSULTING Poznań
13.40-14.00 “Differentiation of agricultural activity
through development of long-term plantations of energetic plants”
Krzysztof
Szyc – Director of Department for Development CERGIA S.A.
14.00-14.20 “New possibilities connected with commercial
transactions – Warsaw Commodities Exchange”
Prof
Michał Jerzak – President of Warsaw
Commodities Exchange
14.20-14.40 “Financing
development of farms and agricultural enterprises”
Stanisław
Krukar – Director of BGŻ (regional
branch)
14.40-15.00 Summarising
the conference
President
of Management Roman Wiatrowski
15.00 Dinner
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