Avanza is the first initiative of the Spanish Government for developing the Information Society. Avanza includes a series of legislative measures and initiatives for direct action with a specific budget. The budget for the Plan in the period 2005 – 2009 exceeds 6.5 billion €, five times the amount devoted to information Society initiatives in the previous four years.
From the start, the Plan has applied a “joint effort” policy: agreements and joint financing with other social agents, both public and private.
To date the Avanza Plan has allocated the following funding:
The Avanza Plan has reached critical mass in our country in terms of market, users, ITC use and overall coverage of services.
The Plan has set up funding lines to generate industrial ICT development in areas such as IT services, healthcare, education, electronic ID, DTT , contents, etc.
Plan Avanza has been designed to place Spain on a top position within the Information and Knowledge Society, to improve its economic productivity and the general welfare of all Spanish citizens.
One of the main objectives of Avanza2 Plan is to contribute to the economical recovery of our country thanks to an intense and extended ICT usage, specially focus on projects which combine sustainability with energetic saving.
In this context, Avanza2 has not only the challenge of boosting supply but also encouraging demand, as well as taking advantage of the sectors development promotion for the consolidation of our own ICT Industry specialized in strategic sectors and always focused on SMEs.
It is a dynamic plan, in permanent contact with the sector's agents and is therefore, constantly evolving. Avanza Plan is become into a new programm called Avanza2 Plan. Avanza2 Plan is formed by 5 new measures which lead to the reinforcement of existing measures or the definition of new ones:
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