3.1 Boosting digital infrastructure development Ch IV 1.1

3.1. Boosting digital infrastructure development (Ch IV. 1.1)

Table 6: Boosting Digital Infrastructure Development (Broadband) covered

white areas and capacity strategies implementation by LGs

Local Concerns

Legal/ Regulatory Attempts/ Measures

Basic Institutional Settings

Governance, Service Performance Financial Facilities Innovative

Boosting Digital Infrastructure Development (Broadband) Ch IV. 1.1 Not Local level covered by not Map Rea sufficiently

Participation in broadband mapping Contribution by LGs through the identification of hot spots,  Contribution to optic fibre installations (local sites/roads) Coordination and  Levers

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Local level sufficiently covered

Legal/Regulatory Attempts/Measures

Participation in broadband mapping (Contribution by LGs)

This field of action particularly includes the stipulated broadband infrastructure mapping throughout the region. The updating process is currently uneven; it shows different stages of implementation with Serbia being most advanced.

Broadband connectivity is of major interest for areas which are business hot spots and show agglomeration perspectives. Private and public investors must consent and share outstanding investment volumes. Analysing the optimal spare fibre optic capacity is the most important challenge to cost containment.

This presupposes parameters from national as well as regional/local, spatial planning.

Municipalities and local governments should therefore be assigned a key role in the mapping processes.