Our sponsor

STILE, a three-year project launched in November 2001, is funded as an Accompanying Measure under the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme of the European Commission’s Fifth Framework. STILE was actually approved under the Cross-Programme Action 8 (V.1.8) ‘Statistical tools, methods, indicators and applications for the Information Society’ and its focus is on “the definition, measurement and exploitation of new socio-economic statistical indicators for the Information Society”.

The STILE proposal was submitted in response to a joint call for proposals from IST and Eurostat. According to Jean-Louis Mercy of Eurostat, “the conceptual, methodological and practical problems of the measurement of the new Information Society and economy have not all been solved and therefore further research in the field is needed in order to be able to produce statistics and indicators which will form the basis of the new policy documents”. Because STILE will innovate existing statistical tools and indicators in order to take into account the rapid penetration of modern ICTs into all branches of the economy, it will contribute to solving the above-mentioned problems.

More information on the European Commission’s IST Programme and Eurostat can be found on http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ and http://europa.eu.int/comm/eurostat/, respectively.