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NetworkThe Tuscany, Poitou-Charentes and Catalonia Regions & their partners cordially invite you to the launch event of the European project IDEAL-EU which will take place in Brussels on June 25th on the theme:
“Youth and climate change: an experiment in participatory e-democracyâ€
The event will take place from 3pm at the Tuscany Region Brussels Office (Rond-point Schuman 14) in the presence of
Minister Agostino Fragai Tuscany regional Minister for institutional reform and citizens’ participation
& Chairman Guido Sacconi, Chairman of the European Parliament Temporary Committee on Climate Change
R.S.V.P before June 20 at info@brplpc.org
More information on the IDEAL-EU initiative and its launch event on www.ideal-eu.net
(http://www.gencat.cat/salut/depsan/units/sanitat/html/ca/formacio/doc130...)
Strategies to ensure security and best practice in the use of personal data in the health management
This one-day event will address strategies to ensure security and best practice in the use of personal data in the health management. Its programme includes the following presentations:
Main challenges pertaining to the protection of the confidentiality of health data;
Control criteria and mechanisms for the access to health history;
Information processing in health administrations.
Participation to this event is open to all those interested and free-of-charge. Registration can be performed
This seems to be a very challenging project. (http://www.epractice.eu/cases/codict) I am particularly interested in your approach for people with cognitive disabilities. Written communication is not obvious as reading skills are often limited. We are ourselves developing accessibility guidelines for this target group, as a part of a bigger project that provides accessibility labels to Belgian websites.
The issues you will bring to the discussion might be of interest to us as well.
Level of project development?
We are in similar projects... please can you share results and project development information, stages, etc.?
Thanks!
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Special Track: eGovernment and eParticipation at the crossroad:
Third International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2008) (sponsored by IEEE) University of East London, London, UK November 13-16, 2008
Special Track: eGovernment and eParticipation at the crossroad: how social software, SOAs and semantic technologies transform the citizen-state interaction
Selected papers from this track will be considered for publication in IEEE Intelligent Systems, Special Issue on Transforming E-government and E-participation.
For further information about the IEEE IS special issue:
http://www.computer.org/portal/site/intelligent/menuitem.924e0547aef9ed7...
Public administrations are considered the heaviest service industry worldwide. However, they are far from satisfying their constituents as they usually operate in an ineffective/inefficient way. EGovernment and eParticipation research aims to refocus the government business to its clients, being citizens and businesses and provide the models, technologies and tools for more effective and efficient public administration systems. This citizen-driven government:
a) Provides to its users an electronic, one-stop and personalized access to the maze of public services (MyGov portal) and at the same time substantially improves its internal administrative efficiency and capacity (eGovernment).
b) Facilitates and gives voice to the citizens/businesses to participate at the public policy formulation and at the design phase of the service provision while allowing later the evaluation of the implemented public policies and services by the users (eParticipation).
Although a great progress can be reported during the last decade there are still important challenges to be addressed.
The track aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different subject areas including enterprise architectures, interoperability, semantic web, semantic web services, social software, and foster discussions about ongoing research and experience in the following indicative areas:
- Service Oriented Architectures for public administration
- Semantic Web and Semantic Web Service technologies
- EGovernment strategies and national programmes
- Social software for eParticipation
- User generated content for eGovernment and eParticipation
- Enterprise Architecture design and implementation in public organizations
- Models and ontologies for eGovernment
- Personalized and modular one-stop portals
- Cross-agency service composition and monitoring
- Semantic and organizational interoperability for eGovernment systems
- Use of sensors and real-time data for decision systems (e.g. environmental, traffic systems)
- Citizens feedback mechanisms
- Social tagging for eGovernment/eParticipation
- Assessment, evaluation and quality of e-services
- Electronic ID, access control, security and trust
- Pan-European eGovernment services
Track co-Chairs
Vassilios Peristeras, National University of Ireland Galway, Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI), Ireland vassilios.peristeras@deri.org Konstantinos Tarabanis, University of Macedonia, Greece kat@uom.gr
Track Committee
Frank Bannister, Trinity College, Ireland Carlo Batini, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy Peter F Brown, Pensive.eu, Austria William Golden, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Tomasz Janowski, United Nations University/IIST, Macao, China Liddle Joyce, Nottingham Business School/ICPSM, Nottingham, UK Nikos Loutas, National University of Ireland Galway/DERI, Ireland Massimo Mecella, University of Rome, Italy Matteo Palmonari, University of Milano - Bicocca, Italy Theresa A. Pardo, Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany, USA Luis lvarez Sabucedo, University of Vigo, Spain Murray Scott, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland Efthimios Tambouris, CERTH/ITI, Greece Roland Traunmller, University of Linz, Austria Maria Wimmer, University of Koblenz, Germany
Paper Submission
Papers should be formatted according to the IEEE template. For templates, visit http://www.icdim.org/submission.php
Submit the paper electronically to the track chair: vassilios.peristeras@deri.org
Important Dates
Full Paper - July 01, 2008
Notification of Paper Acceptance/Rejection - August 15, 2008
Camera Ready Paper Due - September 15, 2008
Author Registration - October 01, 2008
Early Bird Attendee registration - October 15, 2008
Conference Dates - November 13-16-2008
E-Government
One of the obstacles to E-Government is that it is not always clear what advantage the citizen has because of the conversion of manual processes to digital and web-enabled ones.
Selling technique used to be taught as the FAB method:
the salesperson first explains Features of an "offering"
then describes the Advantages of the subject "offering" over other offerings
and outlines the Benefits to the customer which result from these Advantages.
Acceptance of e-Government thus depends on the perceived benefits and the perceived intention of government as seen by the citizen.
E-Government strategy should thus define what the advantages of E-Government to the electorate are - for example cheaper services - i.e. lower fees and taxes.
Another advantage could be that people with disabilities, people who live far from the offices of the administration, etc. no longer have to experience the hassle of extensive travel to be able to visit various offices and waiting in line at each of them in order to perform tasks prescribed and fill forms required by the very administration the services of which they are soliciting.
The round the clock availability could be an added benefit the citizen may perceive..
Any E-Government strategy statement should avoid giving the impression that having E-Government is an aim in itself.
While it is clear that not every member state has the same issues, the clear use of E-Government to meet the needs of the citizen would go a long way to increase citizen confidence and appreciation of such efforts.
Conversely, failure to demonstrate that e-services will be a benefit or even worse, giving the impression that converting paper-based process to electronic ones is only ot the advantage of the administration would most likely result in E-Government being perceived as yet another high-handed decision which causes new hassle for the citizen, as its use requires going through a change in behavior and the process of learning to use a computer and to find your way through the various pages and forms of the relevant websites, registering for and obtaining an account etc...
Solution outsource opportunity
I am wondering about the opportunity to building the e-government or other related solutions by outsourcing and where quality and performence is same sa EU. Should there be any indication form the organizations or initiative form the IT firms, i believe things can change a lot and people can be benefited.