Delivering A HEALTHY DIGITAL ECOSYSTEM FOR JERSEY By Paul Masterton, Chairman, Digital Jersey
Working for 5 years at the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust taught me the importance of healthy ecosystems. In the natural world ecosystems are complex and massively interdependent, requiring multiple elements working together in harmony to ensure that the entire system is healthy and sustainable to life.
Conversely, while everything must work together, it often only takes the absence or loss of one element to harm all. Sadly there are too many examples of this in the wild; the Brazilian rain forest easily comes to mind, but this is equally true for smaller, less complex, equally delicate ecosystems, such as the one that sustains Jersey’s agile frog.
A healthy digital ecosystem in Jersey has many of the same considerations, and challenges, that are found in the natural world. Creating the right set of conditions for business and communities to thrive in the digital age is critical to Jersey’s future and is an essential part of Digital Jersey’s work. Starting early in 2013, the purpose of Digital Jersey is to act as an accelerator – to create growth in the digital sector, (by supporting technology companies and also the use of technology broadly in all companies), and to enable the use of technology for society in general.
To support this objective, Digital Jersey has set longer-term targets for growth in GVA of the digital sector and for job creation, aiming to deliver 2,300 new jobs by 2020. In addition to economic targets, Digital Jersey has social objectives for education and skills development and the roll out of eGovernment capabilities for improved services to Jersey residents. Finally Digital Jersey is also focussed
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on establishing Jersey’s reputation as a progressive ‘digital’ jurisdiction.
To make this happen, Jersey needs a strong digital ecosystem. We are a late entrant to the digital race – Malta by comparison launched their digital strategy in the early 1990’s – and in order to develop in the right way, we now need to consider how we
compare to others and what we can learn from them.
Ecosystems are complex structures. This is just as true for Jersey’s digital environment but we can look at the major building blocks as shown below:
Ease of doing
business Infrastructure
Incentives and enablers Social Connectivity
Finance
Jersey Digital
Ecosystem Reputation Innovation Laws & Digital Community Regulations Entrepreneurs
Skills and Education
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