eTEN

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• eTEN
• Deploying Trans-European e-Services for all
• ISSS/LORIS/V4DIS Conference
• Achim Klabunde
• European Commission

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eTEN in a nutshell

• Objective Validation deployment
  of public interest e-Services
• Orientation eEurope 2005 and beyond
• eTEN supports implementation
• Themes eGov, eHealth, eLearning, eInclusion
  Trust Security, Services for
  SMEs
• Procedure Calls for proposals
• selecting the highest quality
• within the
  available budget (45M/y)
• Requirement Trans-European dimension
• no RD or infrastructure support
• practical service
  demonstrations
• interoperable, inclusive, trusty secure

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Focus - eTEN

• Emphasis on service provision
• Meet identified needs of users
• Public Sector Involvement is vital
• Part of natural process of service roll-out
• Based on mature technology

eTEN does not fund RTDeTEN does not fund
infrastructure
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eTEN Portfolio example (1)
smartcard

• FACTS
• Deployment, 2002-2004, 1.1M funding
• Based on TEN-Telecom project eGAPthat validated
  a wider range of services
• SPES focuses on the single topic of digital
  signatures accelerating introduction into public
  administrationsin five cities (Italy, UK,
  Denmark, Germany)
• Provides smart card multipoint access to
  citizens(births, deaths, marriages, building and
  land registry)
• Provides unified access to enterprise services
• Covers signatures for internal back-office admin
• More cities/countries want to replicate

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eTEN Portfolio example (2)

• FACTS
• Market Validation, 2002-2003, 1.47 M funding
• Market validation project to prepare a
  sustainable satellite telemedicine service for
  cruise and passenger ships
• Satellite link between ships and land based
  hospitals in Italy, Greece ,France and Germany
• Medical Services Implemented
  Tele-Cardiology, Ultrasound Examinations,
  Videoconferencing General Medical Consultations
• Based on D-SAT 2000 ATM provided by Eutelsat and
  maritime Ku band stabilized satellite platforms

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eTEN Portfolio example (3)

• FACTS
• Validation, 2002-2003, 250K funding
• Based on IST project NETLINK with Franco-German
  Franco-Belgian pilot
• Commission Communication on Healthcards mentions
  NetC_at_rds (SAINCO, EMPLOY)
• Interest from other Member States, Accession
  Third Countries (Canada)

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eTEN Portfolio example (4)

• FACTS
• Validation, 2003-2004, 1.6M funding
• Brings together 8 donor transplant centres from
  Italy, Netherlands, Spain, UK, Greece and Belgium
• Realisation of a European Organ Data Exchange
  Portal and Data Base to be used in the medical
  field of data organ exchange and transplantation
• Based upon common EU protocols for data
  acquisition and processing on organs donation
• Delivering of updated and official information to
  professional operators and institutions,
  accessible via internet in real-time

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Objectives for 2005 (a)

• To enhance the deployment impact of projects by
  inclusion of the full range of stakeholders
• To achieve more effective service deployment by
  widening the scope and consortium composition of
  eTEN projects
• To ensure that the electronic services addressed
  by eTEN projects adopt the principles of an
  inclusive information society in its broadest
  sense

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Objectives for 2005 (b)

• To address the needs of cross-border communities
  and economies by supporting services targeted to
  their needs
• To support dissemination, exchange exploitation
  of good practices by encouraging replication of
  already operational national, regional and local
  services into a broader Trans-European context
• To promote the use of open standards and
  interoperability and to incorporate
  necessarytrust and security safeguards

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eTEN 2005 Call

• Estimated total Budget 2005 45 M
• (of which 1 M reserved for support actions)
• 10th February - Call opening date
• 10th May _at_ 1600 - Call closing date
• Evaluation late May early June
• (assisted by independent experts)
• Negotiations planned for September
• First contracts by the end of the year

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Six Themes

• eGovernment
• eHealth
• eInclusion
• eLearning
• Trust and Security
• Services for SMEs

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eGovernment key issues

• improving quality take-up of public eServices
• reducing the administrative burdenof citizens
  and businesses
• broadening participation in democratic processes
  and public debate
• improving effectiveness efficiencyof public
  administrations
• transfer/replication of successful servicesand
  good practices between administrations

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eHealth key issues

• improved access and Trans-European exchanges
  (cross-border) of healthcare information
• Improve consequential transactions (management
  and reimbursement)that foster cooperation
  between nationaland regional healthcare systems
• improvements in service interoperability

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eInclusion key issues

• e-Accessibility of government services
• promotion facilitation of Life Long Learning
• promotion of employment prospects
• adaptation to new working environments
• accessibility of telecommunications and
  broadcasting services
• exploitation of assistive technologies for
  service delivery their use by people with
  special needs

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eLearning key issues

• Deployment of lifelong learning services
• Deployment of services for the re-skillingand
  up-skilling of the workforce
• Deployment of networked campusand collaborative
  services
• Deployment of services that fosterdigital
  literacy and e-skills as well asunderstanding
  the use of ICT for learning

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Trust Security key issues

• Deployment of interoperable applications using
  digital signatures, especially qualified
  signatures
• Privacy enhancing services, especially mobile use
• Secure interoperable micro payment systems
• Services strengthening the co-operation of
  networks security organisations(e.g. Computer
  Emergency Response Teams - CERTs)
• Trust mark services that give users transparent
  means to verify that their rights as consumers
  and citizens are respected
• Special emphasis on Open Source Solutions

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Services for SMEs key issues

• Support for SMEs and SME networks to adoptand
  use e-applications and to facilitate synergy and
  interactions with their working environment both
  at local and international level
• The provision and promotion of cross-border
  eServices targeted at SMEs
• Fostering public-private partnerships
• Enhancement of e-skills in SMEs

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Information on the web

• Call for Proposals
• Work Programme 2005
• Guide for Proposers
• Evaluation Manual
• Model Contracts
• Frequently Asked Questions
• National Contact Points/Helpdesks
• List of National Authorities / eTEN Management
  Committee Representatives
• http//europa.eu.int/eten

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eTEN at the heart of eEurope
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