TERREGOV for effective e-government implementation IST results
(CORDIS) The IST FP6 project TERREGOV aims to become the European reference for innovative technologies enabling the effective implementation of e-government services by local governments. Considering that government services are offered by a number of administrations interacting with each other and that local administrations often act as a front office to citizens, the project’s goal is to make it possible for local governments, to become a channel for delivering online a large variety of services in a straightforward and transparent manner regardless of the administration(s) actually involved in providing those services. Pilot Activities conducted in four European countries will provide user drive and will address social care as a common application area. Experiments, trials and finally take-up will be implemented between 2005 and 2007.
http://www.terregov.eupm.net/
European Network of Excellence in Funding Bid
A European network aiming to help technology companies and public bodies exchange best practice ideas for e-government and e-democracy is among projects vying for European Commission cash in next month’s Information Society Technologies (IST) research funding round (http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/fp6/instruments_en.html).
Plans for the European Network of Excellence in Political Technologies will be unveiled at IST2004 (http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2004/index_en.htm), an event organised by the Dutch EU presidency this week.
Partners include the Forum for European e-Public Service (http://www.eu-forum.org), which analyses European e-government needs; the Worldwide Forum on e-Democracy, based in France (http://www.issy.com/statiques/e-democratie/); and Global Cities Dialogue (http://www.globalcitiesdialogue.org). Among the technology partners are France Telecom; SUN Microsystems and IBM.
The network is comprised of clusters focusing on e-government news providers, researchers and academics. Among its planned activities will be the publication of a regular online review of political technologies, containing academic papers, case studies and news, which will be free to members. The first of these is to be published at the end of the month.
Network founder Daniel van Lerberghe, executive director of the Belgium-based POLITECH Institute (http://www.politech-institute.org), is currently talking with Kingston upon Thames council and Sheffield city council in the UK about assisting with projects. Network members will pay differing subscription fees according to the nature of their involvement.
