The European Broadband Portal (EBP) has been launched and is accessible at http://www. broadband-europe.eu/. It seeks to create a coherent online community of relevant stakeholders, providing them with the tools for effective sharing of experiences and good practices and a participatory environment for seeking common and shared solutions.
The project is a follow-up action of the European Commission resulting from the Bridging the Broadband Gap Conference held last year, which concluded that there was a need to support public authorities in areas under-served by broadband to improve supply and conditions of supply.
The European Broadband Portal aims to stimulate the exchange of best practices and the sharing of experiences; facilitate demand aggregation and joint procurement; act as a central information platform, publishing calls for tender and other notices; become in this way a virtual meeting point between suppliers and local governments; and permit sparsely populated areas to coordinate their demands for broadband, establishing a critical mass for technological solutions, such as satellite, that provide large coverage.
The development of the EBP has been initiated by the European Commission (DG Information Society & Media) following an open call for tender for the supply of a "web portal for exchange of good practice for broadband deployment". The project started in January 2008 and will last for a period of 30 months.
The project is a follow-up action of the European Commission resulting from the Bridging the Broadband Gap Conference held last year, which concluded that there was a need to support public authorities in areas under-served by broadband to improve supply and conditions of supply.
The European Broadband Portal aims to stimulate the exchange of best practices and the sharing of experiences; facilitate demand aggregation and joint procurement; act as a central information platform, publishing calls for tender and other notices; become in this way a virtual meeting point between suppliers and local governments; and permit sparsely populated areas to coordinate their demands for broadband, establishing a critical mass for technological solutions, such as satellite, that provide large coverage.
The development of the EBP has been initiated by the European Commission (DG Information Society & Media) following an open call for tender for the supply of a "web portal for exchange of good practice for broadband deployment". The project started in January 2008 and will last for a period of 30 months.