The document outlines plans for developing the ICT sector and digital infrastructure in the Wallonia region of Belgium. The ICT Master Plan has 5 targets: developing broadband and mobile networks, structuring the ICT sector, advancing digital technologies in enterprises, improving digital public services, and integrating digital education. A new agency called AWTIC will consolidate ICT activities and create a platform to connect businesses, support innovation, and showcase emerging technologies like cloud, big data, and the Internet of Things. The region aims to strengthen clusters in software, e-health, telecom, bio/nano technologies, and other fields to make ICT a key part of Wallonia's economy.

1. Building the ICT platform
for Wallonia
AWT … as it is
AWTIC … as it will be
Agence Wallonne à l’Exportation (AWEX)
Office of Foreign Investment (OFI)
Overview of ICT activities in Wallonia, Belgium
@awtbe | www.awt.be

2. Web² / mobile
Real and virtual
worlds are merging
Cloud
Universal platform for
online services
Social
Empowerment. A new
distribution of roles
Data
The new power
of data and analytics
Programmable
World
Source : Master Plan TIC & AWT
ICT Master Plan for Wallonia
4 major ICT axes

3. ICT Master Plan for Wallonia
5 targets
• Digital planning. Boadband fixed and mobile networks,
regulation, smartcities, NWOW, ….
• Structuring the ICT sector. Better visibility, innovation and
ability to transform R&D into products and services.
• Advanced ICT uses in enterprises. E-business & e-commerce,
e-learning. Innovative projects based on ICT, particularly to
tackle major future challenges (climate, mobility , aging, etc.).
• Digital public services. Facing the challenges of digital
empowerment, Open Data and Open government.
• Digital education. Integration of ICT in the heart of the
education system. Universal access to ICT and fight against the
digital divide.

4. AWT [… now]
Agence Wallonne des Télécommunications (AWT). Public agency of the
Walloon Region in charge of ICT. 3 main missions : technology watch,
consultancy and promotion.
Examples of services :
• ICT observatory in Wallonia. ICT barometer : annual statistical surveys
(companies, citizens, education, ICT sector, health, municipalities, etc.).
Recommendations to the Walloon Government.
• ICT watch and content provider (awt.be). In close cooperation with the
main players and companies in the ICT sector in Wallonia, Belgium and
abroad (technologies, laws, business opportunities, etc.).
• Database of the ICT sector and ICT players. This directory gathers ICT
companies, e-commerce sites, Public Digital Spaces, coworking &
smarwork centers, ICT schools, municipalities and more.
• Professional forums and events. #mforum, #ipforum, #edtechforum,
events about e-commerce & ICT uses by companies and administrations.

5. [… and soon] AWTIC
Agence Wallonne des Technologies de l’Information et de la
Communication.
Public enterprise, subsidiary of the new Agency for Enterprise and
innovation (AEI), result of the merging of the ASE and the AST.
The Walloon government wanted to keep a public company totally
focused on ICT.
We are in a global reorganization of our activities. The keywords
of this reorganization are : DATA and SERVICES.
One major project … The ICT platform for Wallonia.

6. A platform for what ?
• Historical missions of AWT.
• One stop shopping for the identification of business and ICT
actors in Wallonia.
• Validity and simplicity of the data. Each partner of the platform
can handle its affiliates and use all information without friction.
• Contacts with companies focused on their business (products,
services, brands, stories, ...).
• Permanent or temporary customized services (clusters, events,
maps, ...), based on an API / REST model (validated with partners).
• Technology open showcase for innovative ICT technology trends
(Cloud, [Big] [Open] Data [as a Service], NWOW, ...). The agency
has to be in itself a true illustration of Open Government.
• ICT support for the Agency for Enterprise and Innovation (AEI),
including tools, services and methodologies related.

7. ICT, a lever for the economy
• AWTIC support market growth & evolution; knowledge in
• Technology,
• Economy,
• Legislation
• AWTIC can help to
• find partners/suppliers/collaborators or customers
• find out the right area to settle a corporate branch
• support entrepreneurs to create business from Wallonia
• AWTIC is a mesh in the chain between
• Wallon ICT public/private actors
• Worldwide technology market
• Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency

8. a body for help & support
• «Operational Head office for Economy, Employment & Research »
http://recherche-technologie.wallonie.be
• Field of support includes Innovations, Technological development,
Research, Investment, …
• Base research
• Person in charge of Technological Innovation
• Partnership (up to 60% cost of setting up international project)
• Feasibility study
• Entreprise subsidy (given fund)
• FIRST Entreprise Doctor (up to 50% salary support to hire a PhD)
• Applied research
• Recoverable advance (lend fund)
• FIRST entreprise SPIN OUT (hire entrepreneur to create innovation)
• FIRST Entreprise Doctor (up to 50% salary support to hire a PhD)

9. The competitiveness clusters
• Plan Marshall (regional policy statetement)
• Sectors where Wallonia “could excel on a European or world
scale” clusters.wallonie.be
• V1 (end 2010) 5 axes which strengthen regional
competitiveness in sectors (€1.2 billion funds)
• Mobility and Transport
• Food – Health
• Transversal Technologies
• V2 (end 2014) planmarshall2vert.wallonie.be
focus on green technologies, winden the concept of innovation
€1.6 billions funds, 162 actions plan
• + Environment and Sustainable Development
ICT is present in every sectors with a transversal approach

10. ICT one Walloon excellence
• Broadband: on of the most cabled countries in the world, xDSL
pioneer, wireless coverage (3G, WiFi) through different mobile
operators , Fiber Optic To The Building” (FTTB) is a reality for >
1,500 SMEs, 44 fully connected business parks
• Audiovisual and Multimedia sector: TWIST Cluster (technology
companies, service providers, training centers, universities,
research centers, distributors, producers, professional
associations, etc.) represent 4,000 direct jobs and
10,000 indirect jobs
• Micro-Technologies, Nanotech, Mecatronic: MITECH (Micro-
Technologies for Intelligent Manufacturing & Products) cluster

11. ICT one Walloon excellence
• ICT sector: Infopole ICT Cluster www.infopole.be
AWTIC dedicated exclusively to ICT
– awt.be/ict (ICT companies database)
– awt.be/ecommerce (e-commerce cartography)
– opendata.awt.be (Open Data for Wallonia)
• Centers of competences: technical platforms endowed with
modern facilities made available to training agencies and
companies such as Technifutur, Technocité , Technofutur3,
Techno.bel, Forem Formation
• E-learning: part of the dynamic of the Lisbon Summit (2000) and
is under the umbrella of the AWT’s body awt.be/elearning
• New Way Of Working (NWOW): innovative usages and coworking
awt.be/coworking
www.cowallonia.be

12. Software engineering
• 1 out of 4 Wallon ICT company develops software
– Enterprise Ressource Planning,
– Customer Relation Management,
– Document Management
– Multimedia & web tools
– Industrial or scientific applications
– Office suites, workflow
– Networking, security, system
– Educational software, e-learning tools
– Supply Chain Management, e-commerce
– Business Intelligence
– Internet of Things, Smarticities, M2M
– Mobile application for smartphone and tablets

13. E-health
• Medical imagery
• Biotech
• Medical IT
• Tele medicine
• Microsoft Innovation Center focus
on e-health: startups pond

14. Radio transmission / Telecom
• Near Field Communication
• Radio Frequency ID
• Bluethooth Casting
• Magnetic Identification
• Optical networking

15. Bio technologies
• Genomic,
• Proteomic,
• Metabolomic
• Oligonucleotides design
• Database Design
• Clinical research
• « Biotechnological valley »
– www.biovallee.be
– 67 companies
11/06/2014
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Clinical studyClinical study
Biology
Biology
Biology
Biology

16. IPtel, Unified Communication
• Voice Over IP
• Unified Communication
• Open Source (asterisk, SER, OPENsips, kamailio)
• Computer Telephony Integration (CTI)
• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
• IPpbx, Softswitch
• Unified Messaging
• Fixe Mobile Convergence (FMC)
• Unified Communications

17. Mobile applications
• Operating System development
• Customer Relation Management
• Workforces
• Advertisement
• Machine-To-Machine
• Location Based Services
• Walloon ecosystem
powered by
awt.be/mforum

18. Images, Sound and Text / Crossmedia
• TWIST and Wallimage cluster aims
www.twist-cluster.com www.wallimage.be
– synergies between enterprises
– facilitate partnerships
– amplify technological development and innovation
3D
Games
4D/Vitual World
OCR
JPEG2000Voice
Broadcast
Cinema
Broadcast
Cinema
3D /animation
Video
Video
VideoConf

19. Some well established multinational
• IrisLink
• Star Apic
• See telecom
• Thales ALENIA SPACE
• EVS
• Flying cam
• i-Movix
• Telemis
• Spacebel
• Etilux
• Huawei
• Skylane Optics
• Mons Digital Innovation Valley
"Where Technology meets Culture »
• Microsoft Innovation Center
• Google datacenter

20. LLN Chinese Intelligence Valley
• Chinese Belgium Technology Center (CBTC)
– Chinese group Wuhan East Lase Hi-Tech Innovation Center
(Whibi) investment €250 million
– Business incubator
– University / Enterprise partnership
• Peering in China with the
Belgian Wallon Welcome Office
Platform for Innovation China-Wallonia (PIC-W)
www.pic-w.com

21. Lets continue the discussion
ir. Carmelo Zaccone
cz@awt.be
@carmelo
about.me/Carmelo.Zaccone
youtube.com/ipgeek
linkedin.com/in/zaccone
+32 475 586.782
www.awt.be

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• awt.be/ict (ICT companies database)
• awt.be/ecommerce (e-commerce cartography)
• opendata.awt.be (Open Data for Wallonia)
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