European Cluster for Innovation on e Government GAUDI

European Cluster for Innovation on e. Government GAUDI Innovation and Creativity in European Governments ISSS Conference Hradec Kralove, 30 th March 2004

Issues GAUDI Cluster • 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 egovernment

Cluster objectives GAUDI Cluster • 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 e. Transaction solutions as procedures with administrative and legal value user-friendly personalized online services ensuring multichannel access and practical solutions to break down language barriers

Cluster objectives GAUDI Cluster • 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, interoperability and ubiquity of e-government services • To take a leading role in e. Government 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

Cluster members GAUDI Cluster European Cluster for Innovation GIS & Mob App (ENi. GMA) e. Government e. Transaction Catalonia Lombardy NAS & CEEC countries RTD towards NAS & CEEC countries Health/social services Kouvola Region Vysocina Silesia Mid-West

Cluster members GAUDI Cluster European Cluster for Innovation GIS & Mob App (ENi. GMA) Kouvola Region e. Government Catalonia • Consorci LOCALRET • Generalitat de Catalunya • The 4 provincial public administration bodies • 11 Catalan municipalities • 5 universities: UOC, UPC, UB, UPF, Ud. G • Cat 365 e. Transaction Lombardy

Cluster members GAUDI Cluster European Cluster for Innovation GIS & Mob App (ENi. GMA) Kouvola Region • IT companies • National Land Survey • Population Register Centre • Helsinki University of Technology • Lappeenranta University of Technology e. Government Catalonia e. Transaction Lombardy

Cluster members GAUDI Cluster European Cluster for Innovation GIS & Mob App (ENi. GMA) Kouvola Region e. Government Catalonia e. Transaction Lombardy • Lombardy Region – IRe. R • 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

Draft for the future GAUDI Cluster • 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 GAUDI’s partners to bring the outcomes of the events to a larger audience and to take decisions for the following years. GAUDI’s 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@ and Telecities)

Next steps GAUDI Cluster • Catalonia regional event to focus on key issues on e. Government in the future (Barcelona, 23 March 2004) To draft a roadmap of the e. Government for the period 2005 -2006 within the RCI • Lombardy international event to focus on e. Transaction projects (Milano, 22 -23 April 2004) • Internet Global Congress, INET/IGC 2004 (Barcelona, 1014 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 GAUDI’s cluster

Next steps GAUDI Cluster • The Prelude Final conference (Limerick, 13 -14 May 2004) Parallel sessions for presenting the ECI on 13 May 2004 Main goals: to sign the Mo. U between the Prelude partners and other regions, research centres and private companies for the next years • 1 st annual meeting of the GAUDI ECI at the Catalonia Government’s event on e-governance (Barcelona, 5 -6 July 2004). This event is being organized by Generalitat and Manel Castells/IN 3. Main goals: To validate the e. Government 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

Contact info GAUDI Cluster GIS & Mob App Kouvola Region: Pasi Ahonen (Pasi. Ahonen@Kouvola. Region. fi) Minna Valve-Helminen (minna. valve@kouvolaregion. fi) e. Transaction Lombardia: Adriana May (adriana_may@regione. lombardia. it); Federico Rappelli (rappelli@irer. it) NAS & CEEC countries Vysocina: Irina Zalisova (zalisova@brezen. cz) Silesia: Anna Slupina (anna. slupina@silesia. pl) http: //www. prelude-portal. org/uploads/gaudi_home. htm Cluster facilitator Catalonia: Marta Almela, (malmela@localret. es)