Digital Wallonia. Digital Wallonia’s platform

La plateforme Digital Wallonia est lieu de convergence et de diffusion pour le suivi des projets de la stratégie numérique et l’actualité du numérique en Wallonie. Elle offre de nombreux services : cartographies sectorielles, écosystèmes, catalogue des missions internationales, open data, API, agenda, revue de presse,etc

The Digital Wallonia platform is a place that brings people together and shares information about the projects that make up the digital strategy together with Wallonia’s latest digital news. It offers a wide range of services: sector-specific networks, ecosystems, international mission catalogue, open data, API, calendar, press review, and much more.

Digital Wallonia is all about three complementary, indivisible concepts :

• The strategy. This defines public policies’ priorities and goals, as well as the support framework offered to private initiatives to promote digital technology.
• The platform. This provides services and support for public and private stakeholders involved in implementing the digital strategy.
• The brand. This unites the public and private stakeholders and initiatives launched within the context of the digital strategy and ensures their visibility.

The main goals of the digitalwallonia.be platform are to :

• Present Wallonia’s digital strategy and monitor the projects launched.
• Propose benchmark content on the technology, challenges and opportunities involved in the digital transformation.
• Be a smart showcase for businesses in the digital sector.
• Put together a dynamic network outlining digital habits in Wallonia (e-commerce sector, digital schools, smart cities etc.).
• Provide operational services to AdN’s partners and to the stakeholders involved in implementing the digital strategy (mission catalogues, digital ecosystems, shared calendar etc.).

• Digital sector. Research and DW Hub, growth and funding, facilitating, structuring and clusters, internationalisationContact at the AdN: André Blavier, email.
• Boosting the economy using digital technology. E-business and Connected Commerce, Digital marketing, Industry 4.0. Business transformation etc.Contact at the AdN: Renaud Delhaye, email.
• Public services. Open Data, Open Gov and innovation, e-administration, etc.Contact at the AdN: Stéphane Vince, email.
• A smart, connected region. Networks & super-fast broadband, Cyber-security, e-health, Smart Region, NWOW/Digital Workplace, etc.Contact at the AdN: Pascal Poty, email.
• Skills and employment. Digital schools, EdTech, professional training occupations, digital inclusion, etc.Contact at the AdN: Digital schools and inclusion. André Delacharlerie, email.Contact at the AdN: Businesses, sectors and training. Pascal Balancier, email.

One of the main services offered by the Digital Wallonia platform is the provision of structural, dynamic mappings of all of Wallonia’s digital companies and stakeholders. The diagram below shows the different criteria used to create this structure.

Some of the most important networks provided by digitalwallonia.be include:

• Mapping for the digital sector & Products and services related to the digital sector,
• Mapping for the e-commerce sector & Products and services related to the e-commerce sector
• Mapping for the research sector focusing on digital technology in Wallonia
• …

Digital ecosystems:

• Companies that are members of the Infopôle Cluster TIC
• Companies that are members of the TWIST Cluster
• Companies in smart cities
• …

• 2020 digital maturity barometer for Walloon businesses
• 2021 digital maturity barometer for Walloon citizens/li>
• 2020 barometer for Walloon digital start-ups

• Digital Wallonia calendar
• Digital Wallonia news

• The digitalwallonia.be platform is also the official platform of Open Data in Wallonia
• byDW websites are a turnkey website service for platform partners.

The governance of this platform is the responsibility of a Committee made up of the main stakeholders from the Digital Sector.