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RuBIES Seminar - Oulu - Finland
This seminar focused on the core question of the RuBIES project: what are the possibilities for more effective delivery of external information to rural SMEs in remote areas to enhance their business decisions? Focus was on Northern Europe but other pertinent international examples were included.
The RuBIES Seminar Proceedings are available to download from this link: ICT–Tools for Providing Information, Advice and Services for Rural SMEs? Anne Matilainen (ed.). RuBIES Seminar proceedings 6–7 of April 2006, Oulu Finland. Reports 10. 140 pages. University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute. 2006 and it contains the following papers:
- Landmand.dk - experiences with a personal portal for farmers - Jens Peter Hansen, Annette Hørning and Nicolai Fog Hansen
- Verkkokaveri “The Net Mate” Information Service Promoting eBusiness for SMEs - Juha Ikävalko
- Anywhere, anytime? The Northern challenge to ICT developers - Maria Udén, Avri Doria, Arne-Wilhelm Theodorsen and Sigurd Sjursen
- SMEs behaviour and ICTs: building ‘culture’ into evaluation and intervention - Sarah Skerratt and Caroline Park
- The benefits of Online Community for Small and Medium Enterprises - Amanda Burgauer
- Supporting ICT in SME in Northern Germany – experiences and examples -Thomas Meier-Ahrens
- Tilakunto / Benchmarking Tool – business information to farms by using agricultural database - Hannu Seppänen
- Lost in cyberspace? Website performance among furniture firms located in rural areas of Norway - Grete Rusten and Frode Kristiansen
- Theories on Communication of Innovation: Factors that may affect ICT communication performance - Marco Antonio Pereira Querol
- Online education for establishing SMEs - case: YrittäjyysPaletti e-learning modules - Päivi Christian
- Lissu – the interactive Business plan - Pehr-Göran Kåla
- Developing a Network for the Agricultural Sector to Exchange Knowledge - NASEK pilot project - Kainulainen P., Kanala T., Luhtala I., Viitala H
- Policies and legislation in developing e-learning possibilities for rural SMEs – preliminary results of the Euracademy Observatory project - Pia Kattelus
- Don’t do it all by yourself - specialization and co-operation in service production - Mikko Väisänen
- A concept of e-service for hop industry SMEs on international level - Martin Pavlovic, Fotis N. Koumboulis and Maria P. Tzamtzi
- Access to finance and incentives – providing e-opportunities to, agricultural enterprises - Lucia Briamonte and Rachele Rossi
In addition to the full seminar proceedings (submitted papers) some of the seminar presentations can also be downloaded here:
- RuBIES Seminar proceedings 6–7 of April 2006. ICT–Tools for Providing Information, Advice and Services for Rural SMEs? Anne Matilainen (ed.) (PDF: 3.5 MB)
- The development and application of central data bases in Icelandic agriculture (PDF: 426 kB)
- Delivering external expertise to the rural SMEs – how and to what extent can ICT-solutions be used (PDF: 61 kB)
- Agronet.fi – a portal with single sign-on access to farmers’ web services (PDF: 1.5 MB)
- Access to information and advice by SMEs in the Northern Periphery – some findings from the RuBIES Project (PDF: 436 kB)
- The benefits of Online Community for Small and Medium Enterprises (PDF: 230 kB)
- Online education for establishing SMEs - case: YrittäjyysPaletti e-learning modules (PDF: 944 kB)
- Landmand.dk - experiences with a personal portal for farmers (PDF: 1.7 MB)
- Verkkokaveri “The Net Mate” Information Service Promoting eBusiness for SMEs (PDF: 496 kB)
- Developing a Network for the Agricultural Sector to Exchange Knowledge - NASEK pilot project (PDF: 141 kB)
- Policies and legislation in developing e-learning possibilities for rural SMEs – preliminary results of the Euracademy Observatory project (PDF: 136 kB)
- Supporting ICT in SME in Northern Germany – experiences and examples (PDF: 488 kB)
- SMEs behaviour and ICTs: building ‘culture’ into evaluation and intervention (PDF: 718 kB)
- A concept of e-service for hop industry SMEs on an international level (PDF: 1.2 MB)
- Access to finance and incentives – providing e-opportunities to, agricultural enterprises (PDF: 3.8 MB)
- Tilakunto / Benchmarking Tool – business information to farms by using agricultural database (PDF: 218 kB)