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4.2.4 E-Procurement: Make it easier for local businesses, particularly SMEs, to do business
with the Luxembourg Government.
4.3 Digital Inclusion. Digital inclusion in Luxembourg should consider not only future
generations but also the current generation. The global population is ageing rapidly.
Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years will double
from about 11% to 22%. The absolute number of people aged 60 years and over is
expected to increase from 605 million to 2 billion over the same period. Luxembourg
should examine methods and programs to deepen the understanding of disruptive
technologies as well as their utility and the opportunities they bring to all age cohorts
across Luxembourg’s society.
4.4 Luxembourg should examine the formulation of public policymakers’ tools to foster a
local Venture Ecosystem comparable to what the Coller Institute developed for the VC
ecosystem in Israel. These tools should focus on three areas: 1. funding, 2. taxation, 3.
stock market access.
4.5 E-Luxembourg as Core Strategic Vision. Setting up more open approaches to policymaking
and public service delivery requires governments to re-organize themselves around user
expectations, needs and associated requirements, rather than their own internal logic and
needs. The “Recommendation of the Council on Digital Government Strategies” of the
OECD states: 296 “The challenge is not to introduce digital technologies into public
administrations; it is to integrate their use into public sector modernization efforts. Public
sector capacities, workflows, business processes, operations, methodologies and
frameworks need to be adapted to the rapidly evolving dynamics and relations between
the stakeholders that are already enabled – and in many instances empowered – by the
digital environment. To this end, digital government strategies need to become firmly
embedded in mainstream modernization policies and service design so that the relevant
stakeholders outside of government are included and feel ownership for the final outcomes
of major policy reforms.”
296 See: http://www.oecd.org/gov/digital-government/Recommendation-digital-government-strategies.pdf
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