Cities On Internet Association

Cities on Internet" Association [COI](est. 1997) is an nongovernmental organization tasked with bridging the gap between public entities, IT companies and research community in order to plan and implement innovative e-Development ICT-related projects and carry out related socio-economic research focused on digital literacy, e-Government, e-Inclusion, Information Society and knowledge-based economy. COI has three permanent locations in Poland, with a number of regional project offices in most of the regions. COI actively co-operates with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, and the Ministry of Interior and Public Administration. Since COI acts as a Branch Contact Point for Research Programmes of EU, and coordinates the e-Inclusion platform which is tasked with combating “digital divide”. Since 2007 COI experts act within the network of National Contact Points for the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme ICT component.