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Report on the changes detected by the monitoring. Responsible Research and Innovation approach for transitioning the traditional industry regions into digitalised industry territories.
Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4648-4819
Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5627-6917
Karlstad University, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (starting 2013), Department of Political, Historical, Religious and Cultural Studies (from 2013).ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5867-7629
2022 (English)Report (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

This Deliverable Report presents the results of a questionnaire survey among the participants of the DigiTeRRI project. The survey was conducted within Task 5.2 to evaluate the perceived immediate impact of the project, i.e., to identify the changes in the target population with respect to responsible digitalisation in the participating territories. This final version V2.0 is based on data collected from participants of the 36 digitalisation actions and a number of workshops that were conducted in the territories to develop regional visions, roadmaps and concrete support actions for responsible digitalisation.As a small-scale post-project impact evaluation based on an online survey, this quantitative evaluation covers all implemented actions and other activities in DigiTeRRI. Target groups of the survey are the action participants, the regional stakeholders and the action managers in all three regions, Grand Est, Styria and Värmland. It collects and analyses the perceived changes during their DigiTeRRI involvement. The analytic approach is to provide descriptive statistics on outcomes in various subgroups of the target population to support the overall reporting and policy recommendations.The main results of the survey can be grouped in five different parts.

  • Digitalisation challenges. While open access to information in digitalised form is regarded already easily to obtain, it becomes increasingly challenging to access high-quality digitalisation education services. Still bothering perceptions are observed related with data security and privacy, where both technical and legal barriers are still prevalent. Most concerning are aspects that are related with digital competence and the gender bias in digital technologies and services.
  • Experience with DigiTeRRI. Most respondents rated the DigiTeRRI support for responsible digitalisation very positively in general. It helped mainly with respect to increase awareness for open access, digitalisation in education and life-long learning, but also inclusiveness and gender balance. Less impact was seen in the more technical areas like data security and privacy issues, especially from industry representatives.
  • Changes in digitalisation strategies and practices. The most radical change was reported in strategy changes in digital communication, digital teaching and training, and although the Covid-19 pandemic was seen as the main driver, this strategy shift was also attributed to some extent to the participation in DigiTeRRI. On the other hand, surprisingly, a considerable number of organisations across all institutional sectors still lacks an explicit digitalisation strategy. DigiTeRRI is acknowledged a significant contribution to actual change in digital practices within the last two years, albeit it is conceded that communicating RRI to the public – in connection to digitalisation – remains a challenge.
  • Changes in digitalisation maturity. On a wide range of management dimensions (strategy, leadership, products, operations etc.) the digital maturity of organisations has been rated. The respondents clearly report an increase on a well-known digital maturity scale. It was possible to reduce significantly the share of digital unawareness in organisations and to step up the digitalisation ladder. Only the highest level of digitalisation, “transformed” seems to be out of reach within a short period like the DigiTeRRI participation provides.
  • Experiences with the DigiTeRRI stakeholder process. Regional roadmapping processes to foster RRI-guided digitalisation are highly appreciated and strongly supported by the participants. Especially schools, civil society organisations, the regional governments and industry as well as media are not seen to be sufficiently involved in such activities today. Interestingly, at the same time financial compensation for participants is not considered a high priority for these societal groups.This survey has also identified 12 interview partners among the participants in the DigiTeRRI stakeholder process1. The interviews are addressed in a complementary qualitative analysis in Task 5.3. Integrating the quantitative analysis with the qualitative inquiry, the joint results provide an important input to a critical self-evaluation of DigiTeRRI. Thus, it is possible to inform regional strategies for responsible digitalisation.
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2022.
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Political Science
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Political Science
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-104330DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10727590OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-104330DiVA, id: diva2:1957709
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DigiTeRRI
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement nº 873010. Project title: Responsible Research and Innovation approach for transitioning the traditional industry regions into digitalised industry territories (DigiTeRRI). Project coordinator: Marianne Hörlesberger, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH Project URL: www.digiterri.eu

Available from: 2025-05-12 Created: 2025-05-12 Last updated: 2026-02-12Bibliographically approved

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