In competition with 5 other strong consortia,

Danish Management Group won the EC project eKarelia: assistance to local business support structures in providing sustainable ICT-related accessibility, training and business development for enterprises.

Helsinki Consulting Group is lead firm in a consortium with Danish ICT Management and Petrozavodsk State University.

The Tender budget is EUR 2,000,000

Project Background

The wider objective of this project is to foster economic growth and competitiveness in the Republic of Karelia through the development of accessibility of ICT to enterprises and support to increased use of advanced information technology.

In this context the project will promote ICT utilisation in business through increased awareness of benefits of ICT in business operations; provide enterprises in the Republic of Karelia with access to ICT services; establish, in cooperation with existing portals, the capacity for providing coordinated web visibility for Karelian businesses; plan and implement transfer of knowledge on state-of-the-art expertise in ICT: provide a business plan for developing GIS-services for the business sector; carry out a feasibility study on possibilities of web-based trade in the Republic of Karelia.