Transcript ELANET (CEMR)

TOWARDS A STRONG PARTICIPATION
OF NEW MEMBER STATES AND CEEC
COUNTRIES IN THE ELANET (CEMR)
ISSS Conference, 28 – 31 March 2004
Prague and Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
Javier Ossandon
President of ELANET (CEMR)
[email protected]
The ELANET network
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born in 1996 as an informal network
under the umbrella of the Council of European
Municipalities and Regions (CEMR), involving
not only tCEMR members
formed by the Associations of Local and Regional
Governments and their daughter companies
supporting innovation ICT-based and the
modernisation of public administations
20 countries actually represented (EU member
States, Czech Republic, Norway, Poland,
Romania, and Estonia)
Strategy
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Accompanying Local and Regional governments in their
modernisation efforts and participation in European applied
research and innovation in identifying needs, providing
content for application/services and validating prototypes
Creating synergies with EC and other European networks
(stronger commitments with eris@ & TeleCities) in the
framework of eEurope and EU enlargement
Providing policy input on IS local/regional issues to
administrations and the European institutions
Implementing and supporting mainstream co-funded
projects at European level
Large dissemination effort on ideas, tools, instruments and
cases of excellence (Conferences, Events, Project Gallery)
www.elanet.org
Main initiatives within IST
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KEeLAN, a roadmap to improve egovernment and
promote best practices www.keelan.ie
PRELUDE, an instrument to support ERA and
innovation at local and regional level (9 European
clusters for innovation) www.prelude.org
THREE ROSES, a constituency building process
for eGovernment and local development through
FLOSS
www.prelude-portal.org/3roses
EISCO Conference to: www.eisco2003.org
- present cases of excellence
- provide policy input to Regional and Local
Administrations
- discuss with EC on priorities and EU programmes
Future priorities
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Greater coordination among the IS networks and
EC to boost research and innovation among public
administrations
Support enlargement and cohesion in Europe
Develop international cooperation with other
world players in the Information Society
more structured approach in formulating policies
and working programmes to enable an efficient
use of available resources
Governance and eInclusion must be main drivers
Strategic topics
Integrated framework and patterns to
finance the European Information Society
and implement the Lisbon strategy
 Broker approach to coordinate and stimulate
re-use of best practices in eEurope (egovernment can be the test bed)
 Stimulate open source software solutions in
the public sector. Need for a EU directive.
 Building of a constituency for
eGovernment policy input at European level
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Cooperation with new Member
States and CEEC countries
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The most important strategic objective of ELANET
(CEMR) in the short term
ISSS Conference and the Cities in Internet
Conference (June 2004, Zakopane Conference) important
step in this direction
EISCO 2005 Conference in Krakow is a milestone
It should concentrate in:
- building a cooperation framework
- short term focused and qualified initiatives
- a financial strategy making use of all available funding
instruments (included BEI funding)
POSSIBLE INITIATIVES
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A common agenda on key issues, such as
a) accessibility to services and open standards,
b) broadband,
c) citizens’ rights and data privacy,
d) e-democracy,
e) open source in the public sector,
f) technology watching,
g) interoperability for the back office
Participation in network activities and European initiatives
a) Models and policy guidelines
b) EU projects
c) brokerage of cases of excellence (real modernisation)
d) sharing of experts and keynote speakers
Portal and forum (providing sound information and very practical
services)