Estimated Impact
The LCD envisions a digital-based society that is socially cohesive, economically competitive and territorially sustainable.
The LCD was created to provide structures for the promotion and design of projects contributing to the deployment of new social structures within Catalonia’s digital and knowledge society. These structures are the innovation labs, which are being built on the basis of the new digital infrastructures and will enable the building of the digital and knowledge society.
LCD’s activities are expected to make Catalan territories more cohesive and dynamic by introducing new social structures, such as labs and “labs of labs” (collaboratories). Catalunya Sud, through the CatSud Collaboratory, is the first territorial area being addressed by the LCD. Other areas will follow, such as Catalunya Central, Catalunya Nord, Catalunya de Ponent, Catalunya Metropolitana and Catalunya Nord Oest.
A collaboratory is a union between labs and territorial organisations that have or create spaces for research and innovation. Collaboratories are designed in connection with the strategic plans, and drive local transformation projects with a supralocal impact.
The LCD has actively participated in the design of the Catalan Letter of Digital Rights and Duties and in the clarification of terms such as eGovernement, Citizenship, eServices, eAdministration, eDemocracy, Civic Technologies, Digital Communications and the analysis of the events of 1-O.