A webinar on the Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Methodology developed in FITMAN project. This methodology has been developed to analyse and estimate the social and economic impacts of the FITMAN use case trials by adopting FIWARE technologies. Presented by Vegard Engen from the IT Innovation Centre, University of Southampton.

1. Socio-Economic Impact
Assessment (SEIA)
FITMAN Webinar
Vegard Engen, IT Innovation Centre
ve@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk
16th June 2015
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2. SEIA methodology
Aims of the socio-economic impact assessment
• Analyse and measure potential social and economic
impacts of new technologies and business models
– On the respective enterprise, its customers, suppliers and
wider society
– For each trial in FITMAN  scale up to industry level
• Identify the potential long-term costs and benefits
– For the different stakeholders
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3. SEIA Scope
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FoF roadmap (mega trends):
• Employment
• Environmental impact
• Economic growth
People’s way of life
Their environment
Health and wellbeing
Their community
Publications
Outreach
Awareness creation
Recommendations
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4. Three step SEIA methodology
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5. Three step SEIA methodology: step 1
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1: Outline the socio-economics of the
manufacturing sub-sector
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6. Status quo, example stats
• Bringing in stats, e.g., from EuroStat [1], such as:
– Number of enterprises and turnover
– Organisation sizes
– Employment figures (broken down for organisation sizes,
for example)
• Information on the effect on the environment.
– The sources for this would depend on the respective
industry that is analysed.
– Could be academic literature, government reports, etc.
[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
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7. Three step SEIA methodology: step 2
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2: Case study with new technology
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8. Example value network
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9. Example costs & benefits definition
Actor Type Cost / benefit Related Performance Indicator (PI)
Actor 1 Benefit Reduced project management
overhead
PI1: Average lead-time to perform,
record and analyse test results.
Actor 2 Cost Cost of system implementation None
Actor 3 Benefit Reduced resource usage PI2: Average amount of resource used
before and after change
implementation.
Society Benefit Reduced paper usage PI3: Average number of pages used in
the test results recording, archival, etc.
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10. Three step SEIA methodology: step 3
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3: potential long-term benefits of technology
take-up by the manufacturing sub-sector
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11. FoF 2020 roadmap  mega trends
• Employment: Effect of technology on individual
employees, staffing requirements of enterprise, health &
safety, conditions of work, job satisfaction and staff training.
• Environment: Direct or indirect effects of technology on
the environment (e.g. improved energy efficiency, reduced
waste, improved product development leading to more
environmentally friendly products).
• Economic Growth: Economic impact of the technologies
for the whole manufacturing ecosystem (the enterprise itself,
its suppliers, the wider manufacturing industry and the
economy as a whole).
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12. Application of SEIA methodology
• Applied by 6 different partners in FITMAN
• Successfully applied to 10 use case trials in the
FITMAN project
• Key challenges:
– getting data from the organisation that is being analysed.
In FITMAN, all organisations were external; thus
confidentiality was an issue.
– getting business-related measurements for quantifying
impacts of the use of new technologies.
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Actual results cannot be shared here
due to confidentiality
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13. Questions?
Contact:
• Vegard Engen
• ve@it-innovation.soton.ac.uk
Survey:
• https://www.isurvey.soton.ac.uk/16440
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