Regional development. 1. The Parties shall strengthen cooperation on regional development and land-use planning.
Regional development. Deployment of Broadband infrastructure and Next Generation Access helps to resolve many of the key issues associated with remote regions thereby enhancing the local productivity capacity of local economies. Broadband is a key investment strategy in addressing regional imbalances between Member States and in regions within Member States. Addressing regional imbalances between Member States Ireland lags behind the EU and OECD average with regard to total fixed broadband take-up (excluding mobile). The chart below shows Ireland has a relatively low level of Next Generation Access coverage when compared to other Member States, particularly in areas outside of the main urban centres where coverage is less than 10%. Figure 7 Next Generation Access (FTTP, VDSL and Docsis 3.0 cable) coverage, 2013 Next Generation Access (FTTP, VDSL and Docsis 3.0 cable) coverage, 2013 100% 90% Total Rural 80% 70% 60% 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% IT EL HR FR PL IE SK IS EU CZ ES RO BG AT SE FI SI EE DE NOHU CY UK DK PT XX XX LT NL BE MT Source: IHS and VVA
Regional development. The Parties shall strengthen cooperation between them on regional development and land-use planning. They shall encourage exchange of information by national, regional and local authorities on regional and land-use planning policy and on methods of formulation of regional policies with special emphasis on the development of disadvantaged areas. They shall also encourage direct contacts between the respective regions and public organizations responsible for regional development planning with the aim, inter alia, to exchange methods and ways of fostering regional development.
Regional development. An important subtext of the program will be to highlight the attractiveness of Arlington County and the Commonwealth as a location for Virginia and non- Virginia companies to locate to pursue successful national security related business opportunities and growth. Marketing activities will primarily focus on technology regions, such as Silicon Valley, which has a strong and well-established entrepreneurial culture, but would benefit from closer and more active connections to national security customers located in Arlington County (Virginia). Marketing goals and objectives will reached through traditional business development tactics (attendance at conferences, PR and social media), as well as through the utilization of non-traditional means (identification and dissemination of contracting opportunities and vehicles). Activities will be tracked through the metric of companies attracted.
Regional development. Article 96.
