eTampere - City of Global Information Society

The common objective of the eTampere programme is to make Tampere the world's leading city in the research, development and application of the information society. The Tampere urban region accommodates strong, world-class research in information technology and communication, innovative business and the ability to work in cooperation.

The eTampere programme concentrates on three themes.

• network services that ease citizens' daily lives are developed and brought within reach of everyone.
• particular attention is paid to how citizens can actively participate in the building of a fair information society and how they can utilise the new services in their daily lives.
• the foundation of expertise in research and education is strengthened.

New innovative business is created.
The emergence and growth of new enterprises is promoted by increasing well-timed financing and by developing new business models. New business and jobs forward the well-being of all citizens.

There are six independently operating sub-programmes: ISI Information Society Institute, RELab Research & Evaluation Laboratory, eAccelerator, Technology engine programme, eBRC eBusiness Research Centre, and Infocity. The entire programme is coordinated by the eTampere office which is responsible for the programme's communications and marketing and it builds channels for participation by citizens.

eTampere builds the well-being of the future.
The starting point of the eTampere programme is to develop a sustainable information society that supports active citizenship and innovative business. The greatest challenge is to forward expertise and cooperation between the business and research worlds and the public sector in such a way that information society becomes a natural part of the daily life..

Built into the eTampere programme is a strong, critical approach that enables the scrutiny of issues from a variety of perspectives. The necessity of wide-reaching cooperation has been widely understood, and a novel culture of cooperation is gathering strongly.