The term Emerging markets is used to describe a nation's social or business activity in the process of rapid growth and industrialization. Currently, there are approximately 28 emerging markets in the world, with the economies of China and India considered to be two of the largest. BRIC(S) is the acronym for the biggest emerging economies, i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China, and sometimes South Africa is added.
Emerging economies are addressed in the ICT work programme 2011/12 under the following challenges/ objectives:
> Challenge 1:Pervasive and Trusted Network and Service Infrastructures
Objective ICT-2011.1.3 Internet-connected objects
c) Coordination and support actions
Objective ICT-2011.1.6 Future Internet Research and Experimentation (FIRE)
e) Coordination and Support Actions
> Challenge 5: ICT for Health, Ageing Well, Inclusion and Governance
Objective ICT-2011.5.6 ICT solutions for governance and policy
modelling
b) Coordination and Support actions
>International Cooperation:
Objective ICT-2011.10.1 EU-Brazil Research and Development cooperation (ICT WP p.111)
Objective ICT-2009.10.2 EU-Russia Research and Development cooperation (ICT WP p.114)
Please note that the deadline for EU-Brazil cooperation projects is 18 January 2011, for EU-Russia it is 14 September 2010!
