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1
eRights Charter
DI Eberhard Binder


Hradec Kralove 29/30. 3. 2004
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What is TeleCities?
  • TeleCities is the major European Network of
    cities committed to leadership in the Information
    and Knowledge-based Society
  • Established in 1993 as a EUROCITIES
    sub-network, TeleCities is open to democratically
    elected city governments as well as to business
    and scientific partners
  • TeleCities provides a platform of over 100 local
    authorities from 20 different European countries
    sharing experience and developing practical
    solutions to achieve an Inclusive Information
    Society
  •  Its aim is to promote eGovernment and
    eCitizenship at local level to ensure that all
    citizens can equally gain from the benefits of
    the Information Society

3
TeleCities Presidency Steering Committee
  • President Barcelona
  •  Vice President Naestved
  •  Steering Committee Members (14)
  •  Amaroussion Antwerp Helsinki Kingston upon
    Hull Cologne Marseille Nice Siena
    Stockholm The Hague Vienna Prague
    (Observer)
  •  

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TeleCities Members
  • Other Local Authorities (101)
  •  
  • Amsterdam Bari Belfast Berlin Bilbao
    Birmingham Birkirkara Bologna Bonn
    Bradford Bremen Bristol Brussels Capital
    Region Camden-London Cannes Cardiff
    Copenhagen Cuenca Edinburgh Eindhoven
    Espoo Frankfurt Frederikshavn Gdansk
    Genova Gent Gijón Girona Glasgow
    Göteborg Grenoble Grosseto Hagen
    Heraklion Jena Jun Katowice Koper Leeds
    Leeuwarden Leipzig Lille Linköping Linz
    Lisbon Liverpool Livorno Lodz Lyon
    Madrid Manchester Metz Milan Modena
    Montpellier Munich Münster Nantes Naples
    Newcastle Nottingham Nuremberg Oulu
    Ostrava Palermo Porto Reus Rijéka Rome
    Ronneby Rotterdam Sabadell Salerno
    St Petersburg San Sebastian Seville
    Sheffield Siena Southampton Strasbourg
    Tallinn Tampere Terrassa Thessaloniki
    Totana Tranås Turin Turku Utrecht
    Valencia Valladolid Vantaa Venice
    Viladecans Vilafranca del Penedès Vilnius
    Waterford Yalova Zaragoza
  •  

5
TeleCities Members
  •  Business Members (8)
  • apc Interactive Clip Card Fabasoft AT
    Software GoPro Development
  • Master Metropolis Oracle Schweers Sun
    Microsystems 
  • Other Organisations (3)
  • CSP-ICT Research Center
  • CIPAL (Centre of Informatics for the Provinces
    Antwerp and Limburg)
  • ITOSZ (National Association of National
    Settlements)

6
Number of Members per Member State - date 2004
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TeleCities Services to the Members
  • Policy development and lobbying the European
    Agenda to ensure that the positions of cities are
    taken into account
  • Information provision to members (eNewsbrief,
    website)
  • Exchange of experience, transfer of know-how.
    Enforced co-operation and networking with South
    European and CEE cities is pursued
  • Development and management of projects relevant
    to the members and the network

8
Policy Development
  • Place the city related aspects of the
    developments brought about by the Information
    Society, higher on
  • the EU agenda (regular dialogue and more)
  • national governments agenda (national branches)
  • local political level (local decision makers)

9
Exchange Networking
  • The organisation of events, from large
    conferences to project-related technical
    workshops, four times a year, as well as the
    activities of the TeleCities Working Groups, will
    support the exchange
  • As for the networking, the main objective is to
    help cities learning from each other through the
    exchange of information and experience, and
    facilitate the transfer of knowledge

10
TeleCities Events in 2004
  • Urban Impacts of the Information Society Facts,
    Fiction and Policies?
  • 17-19 March 2004, The Hague
  • - Final conference connected with the MUTEIS
    projects (on the impact of ICT in the urban
    areas)
  • - Quality of content and presentation of the
    final results of the MUTEIS project
  • Flexible Citizen in a knowledge based city
  • 2-4 June 2004, Ronneby
  • - Adequate access to public services
  • - Trust and confidence
  • - Life long learning

11
TeleCities Events in 2004
  • Knowledge based Economy
  • 29 Sept- 2 October, Gijon
  • Presentation of the results of the  Foster the
    Knowledge based Economy  Working Group
  • Cities for a new perspective on social and
    economic prosperity
  • 11-13 November, Vienna
  • TeleCities AGM
  • Contribution to EUROCITIES Conference

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TeleCities Working Groups
  • Share experiences and practices
  • Transform these experiences into ideas,
    guidelines and recommendations for future
    policies (e.g. 6th FP for Research and
    Technological Development)
  • Accomplish a range of surveys to provide
    Knowledge of the different issues using the more
    than 120 member-cities as a source of information
  • Set-up project initiatives

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TeleCities Working Groups
  • Four main WGs related to future vision for cities
  • Foster the Knowledge based economy
  • Overcome the barriers to the development of the
    Information Society
  • Ensure Information knowledge society rights for
    citizens
  • Promote the modernisation of local Public
    Administrations trough eGovernment

14
TeleCities Projects
  • TeleCities participates directly in EU funded
    Projects at the benefit of its Members
  • MUTEIS (Macro-economic Urban Trends in Europes
    Information Society)
  • FLOSS-POLS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software -
    Policy Support )
  • AUXILIA (A European environment for the
    integration of Youth Disable in Education )
  • INTELCITIES (Intelligent Cities)

15
TeleCities Special Activity
  • eCitizenship for All Initiative in cooperation
    with Deloitte
  • eCitizenship for All Survey annual benchmark
    survey into the state-of-the-art of eCitizenship
    for All (Re-engineering, eLearning, eDemocracy,
    eSecurity) amongst its members
  • gt Creation of a Knowledge Base for TeleCities
    Members
  • eCitizenship for All Award recognition of best
    local projects amongst participating cities in
    each of these eCitizenship for All Challenges

16
Winners of the eCitizenship For All Awards
  • Category eLearning and Inclusion
  • City of Helsinki Nettimanula Project
  • Category eDemocracy and Community Building
  • City of Tampere Participation Palette Project
  • Re-engineering of Local Public Administration
  • The London Borough of Camden Home Connections
    Choice-Based Lettings Project
  • Category eSecurity
  • City of Bremen Bremen Online Project

17
TeleCities Contact Details
TeleCities Coordination Office
(TCO) Brussels Tel 32 2 552 08 68 Fax 32 2
552 08 89 e-mail telecities_at_eurocities.be
http//www.telecities.org
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Policy Development
  • Place the city related aspects of the
    developments
  • brought about by the Information Society, higher
    on
  • the EU agenda (regular dialogue and more)
  • national governments agenda (national branches)
  • local political level (local decision makers)

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Policy Development
  • TeleCities has developed its own vision for the
    cities
  • Knowledge-based City
  • Main topics
  • Foster the Knowledge based economy
  • Overcome the barriers to the development of the
    Information Society
  • Promote the modernisation of local Public
    Administrations trough eGovernment
  • Ensure Information knowledge society rights for
    citizens (eRights)

20
IS and the role of local authorities
  • Local authorities have a key role to play in the
    development of an Inclusive Information Society
  • Closest to the citizens
  • Providers of services

21
A Charter of European eRights..
  • is the direction cities are working towards a
    successful IS !
  • WHAT IS IT?

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It is a framework of rights
  • .for all members of society to gain from the
    benefits of the Information Society.
  • INSTRUMENT for local public decision-makers to
    develop policies and services all aiming at the
    Lisbon goals tailored to the territorial needs
  • a CITIZEN-ORIENTED approach to develop an
    Inclusive Information Society at LOCAL and
    EUROPEAN level

23
Charter of European eRights
  • Rights to accessibility
  • Rights to education and training
  • Information rights
  • Rights to participation

24
Accessibility rights
  • Guarantee access to broadband public policyeg.
    Broadband network of public access points
  • Ensure security and user protection confidence
    in ICT

25
Education and Training rights
  • Rights to training for all to enable people to
    effectively benefit from services and information
    through ICT
  • Stress on tailored training for teachers and
    specific groups

26
Information rights
  • Accessibility to user-friendly, highly
    understandable, complete, diversified, up to
    date, transparent public information
  • Citizens personalise their relation with an
    innovative networked public service

27
Participation rights
  • Right to a transparent Public Administration at
    all levels of decision making - eParticipation
  • Benefit from a Public Administration that is
    committed to fostering citizen participation and
    strengthening civil society

28
What to do with the Charter.
It will be further promoted
  • at the LOCAL level relevant community and
    institutional stakeholders in order to adapt it
  • at the EUROPEAN level aiming at future
    pan-European frameworks

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  • DI Eberhard Binder
  • CIO
  • City Of Vienna Chief Executive Office -
  • ICT Strategy and ManagementE-Mail
    binder_at_mdi.magwien.gv.atTel 43-1-4000-75011Fax
    43-1-4000-99-75011
  • http//www.wien.at
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