European Cluster for Innovation on eGovernment

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European Cluster for Innovation on eGovernment

• G A U D I Innovation and Creativity in European
  Governments

ISSS Conference Hradec Kralove, 30th March 2004
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Issues

• Growing Europe
• shares the same social and economic market
• needs modernized public administrations with a
  common perspective and support European
  competitiveness in a multilingual environment
• the challenges in public service delivery are
• to ensure the availability of (e-)government to
  citizens, enterprises and community organizations
  from any part of Europe
• building pan-European services involving
  administrations from different countries
• by sharing good practices, knowledge and
  resources to generate economies of scale in
  e-government

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Cluster objectives

• To support, through RTD and information sharing,
  the provision of consistent, meaningful,
  effective and efficient services of public
  administration. Special emphasis is on
• inter-administrative coordination and systems
  interoperability
• GIS and mobile technologies
• eTransaction solutions as procedures with
  administrative and legal value
• user-friendly personalized online services
  ensuring multi-channel access and practical
  solutions to break down language barriers

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Cluster objectives

• To promote the integration of public and private
  services through RTD on shared information
  networks
• To contribute to the building of ERA
• enhance technological innovation at regional
  level with a clear emphasis on issues related to
  accessibility, inter-operability and ubiquity of
  e-government services
• To take a leading role in eGovernment arena in
  Europe by
• identifying present challenges and possible
  strategies for future policies in e-government
• advocating regional and local approaches and
  addressing their needs

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Cluster members
European Cluster for Innovation
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Cluster members
European Cluster for Innovation

• eGovernment
• Catalonia
• Consorci LOCALRET
• Generalitat de Catalunya
• The 4 provincial public administration bodies
• 11 Catalan municipalities
• 5 universities UOC, UPC, UB, UPF, UdG
• Cat 365

GIS Mob App(ENiGMA) Kouvola Region
eTransactionLombardy
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Cluster members
European Cluster for Innovation
eTransactionLombardy
eGovernment Catalonia

• GIS Mob App(ENiGMA)
• Kouvola Region
• IT companies
• National Land Survey
• Population RegisterCentre
• Helsinki University ofTechnology
• Lappeenranta Univer-sity of Technology

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Cluster members
European Cluster for Innovation
GIS Mob App(ENiGMA) Kouvola Region
eGovernment Catalonia

• eTransactionLombardy
• Lombardy Region IReR
• 4 Lombardy Region General Directorate
• 5 public sector special agencies
• CEFRIEL (Politecnico Milano)
• Univ.Bocconi
• 5 municipalities and provinces associations
• 14 professional associations and enterprises
  associations
• Lombardy Chambers of Commerce Union
• 4 trade-unions

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Draft for the future

• To facilitate exchange of experiences, good
  practices, know-how and demonstration projects.
  Specifically,
• To organize regional workshops/ seminars in order
  to facilitate the information sharing and
  gathering
• To hold an annual meeting between GAUDIs
  partners to bring the outcomes of the events to a
  larger audience and to take decisions for the
  following years. GAUDIs Annual Meeting could be
  hosted every year by a different partner region
• Information on cluster progress and results of
  the work to the European Commission and to the
  European Networks (Elanet, eris_at_ and Telecities)

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Next steps

• Catalonia regional event to focus on key issues
  on eGovernment in the future (Barcelona, 23 March
  2004)
• To draft a roadmap of the eGovernment for the
  period 2005-2006 within the RCI
• Lombardy international event to focus on
  eTransaction projects (Milano, 22-23 April 2004)
• Internet Global Congress, INET/IGC 2004
  (Barcelona, 10-14 May 2004)
• Presentation of the GAUDI ECI in the INET/IGC
  2004 (14 May 2004).
• Main goal to identify and involve key partners
  in the GAUDIs cluster

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Next steps

• The Prelude Final conference (Limerick, 13-14 May
  2004)
• Parallel sessions for presenting the ECI on 13
  May 2004
• Main goals to sign the MoU between the Prelude
  partners and other regions, research centres and
  private companies for the next years
• 1st annual meeting of the GAUDI ECI at the
  Catalonia Governments event on e-governance
  (Barcelona, 5-6 July 2004). This event is being
  organized by Generalitat and Manel Castells/IN3.
• Main goals To validate the eGovernment roadmap
  draft at European level to expose the main
  conclusions of the regional events held in
  Kouvola Region, Lombardia and Catalonia, as well
  as share experiences between partners to look at
  financial opportunities (including European
  programmes) to involve other key partenrs

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Contact info
GIS Mob App Kouvola Region Pasi Ahonen
(Pasi.Ahonen_at_KouvolaRegion.fi) Minna
Valve-Helminen (minna.valve_at_kouvolaregion.fi) eT
ransaction Lombardia Adriana May
(adriana_may_at_regione.lombardia.it) Federico
Rappelli (rappelli_at_irer.it) NAS CEEC
countries Vysocina Irina Zalisova
(zalisova_at_brezen.cz) Silesia Anna Slupina
(anna.slupina_at_silesia.pl)
http//www.prelude-portal.org/uploads/gaudi_home.h
tm Cluster facilitator Catalonia Marta Almela,
(malmela_at_localret.es)