Since the launch of this project, there has been an increasing awareness about the need to have statistical indicators on the digital economy available, which resulted into explicit calls for proposals in the IST programme. As a result, a number of new projects have been recently launched in this domain, maintaining and strengthening the efforts.

Further importance is attached to this work with the need to support the eEurope initiative with benchmarking exercises and quantitative data. The publication of the ECaTT project results is a timely and direct contribution to benchmark progress on key issues of the eEurope Action Plan, adopted during the Feira Summit on 20 of June 2000.