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The compendium

The Baltic rural Broadband Compendium can be taken as the main result of the whole Baltic rural Broadband Project. Not only as a full printed or online version, but as a summary of the baseline, strategy papers, best practices, solutions and experiences of each Project partner.

Yet, this Compendium was written for interested individuals and decision makers, wanting to find out more about the Baltic rural Broadband Project, about broadband facts and the newest technologies. Each chapter of this Compendium is the common result of a long-term partnership.The Compendium was written as a result for practice oriented ideas and experiences on the development of cheap and fast local broadband access as a tool of regional development in rural areas. Since investments by national telecom providers are not to be expected, adapted solutions with alternative cheap techniques usable at a decentralised level will be developed as the core task of this Project.
All possible solutions exist only partly and at a relatively small scale. The Compendium’s reader receives an overview of projects and activities contained in the whole Baltic rural Broadband Project.

The Compendium is only one source of information on the Project or single parts of the Project. Please, contact the developers and regional project managers and have a look to the download section, also.

I Introduction (pdf-file)

This section includes an overview about the project and the project partners. An introduction in the Interreg IIIB Baltic Sea Region Funding programme was summarized. Also included is a laymans report for all new interested readers.

II Baseline papers (pdf-file)

This section gives an overview about the statistical baseline situations of the partner regions. (summarized)Especially under the scope of broabband plannings. Please follow this link to the individual baseline papers: baseline papers

III Strategy papers (pdf-file)

This section gaves an overview about the broadband implementation strategies of the partner regions. (summarized).  Please read Workpackage 1, also. Please follow this link to the individual baseline papers: strategy papers

IV Pilot projects (pdf-file)

The Baltic Rural Broadband project consists of several workpackage and and pilot projects for having a broad averview about the possibilities of broabband and it`s services in rural areas. Please read also the project desciption.

V technical solutions (pdf-file)

This section contains mainly of tests and implementation plans for broadband in rural area via alternative technologies or new combinations of present technologies. E.g. the performance of WiMAX technology or the problems of fibre and coaxial cable combinations. Further results are available also in the download section under "technical solutions" A general description can be found here.

VI applications and services (pdf-file)

This section is based on different pilot projects og Workpackage 3. It shows possibilities of e-government, e-health, portal solutions and many other interesting ideas and important themes for the future regional development in the e-society. Further cases and documents can be found here.

VII Best practices (pdf-file)

In this section the project partners summarized best practices of solve problems in several thematic field. Not all of these case were built by the Baltic Rural Broadband project, but collected by the partnershion to recommend them further.

VIII Community development (pdf-file)

Important for the future devlopment of Europe and on regional level also, is the integration of ICT as a daily tool. young people are growing up with the ICT, also as elderly will need them. Under the scope of the demographic change broadband becomes a new factor for the rural areas.

IX Recommendations (pdf-file)

In this section we summarized the main recommedations for implementing broadband in all levels. Also a list of acronyms is included - for a better understanding especially of some technical issues in the compendium.