TeleCities 2005

• Chair: Chris Newby, President of EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum - TeleCities, Liverpool City Council

  

• Miroslav Sklenář, City of Prague, Deputy CEO for external relations

  

• Vladimír Hořejší, Deputy Minister, Ministry of Informatics of the Czech Republic:
  eGovernment in 2005

  

• Karel De Vriendt, head of unit - European Commission, DG Enterprise and Industry, eGovernment Services (IDABC):
  From interoperability, via collaboration, to cost-effective provision of public services

  

• Chris Haynes, SOCITM, Senior Advisor ODPM, UK Government

  

• Miroslav Beneš, Parliament of the Czech Republic:
  Potentiality of public administration to use ICT

  

• Discussion, coffee break

• Chair: Chris Newby, president of EKSF - TeleCities

  

• Pavel Bém, Mayor of Prague:
  Greetings to the conference

  

• signature ceremony

• Chair: Heleen Kerkhof, Leeuwarden
• Introduction, Broadband Manifesto

  

• Przemyslaw Kania and Jan Houda, Cisco Systems:
  Broadband initiatives in Europe - roadmap for executives
• Jan Houda, Cisco Systems:
  Broadband initiatives in the Czech Republic

  

• Eirikur Hjalmarsson, Reykjavik:
  Fibre to the Homes in Reykjavik, -an Equal-Access Network

  

• Steve Kingdom, KTL:
  Case study from Kingston upon Hull: Connected Homes

  

• Chair: Jose Ramon Rodriguez, Barcelona
• Leda Guidi, Head of Communication services to citizens of the Municipality of Bologna, Iperbole Civic Network:
  Ten years of e-rights and civic telematic in Bologna

  

• Jan Savický, Golden Crest Association:
  The Golden Crest a EuroCrest Awards for websites and electronic services of towns and municipalities

  

• Joan Batlle, Barcelona (ES):
  IRIS project

  

• Xavier Martin, City of Terrassa:
  TERRASSA.NET project

  

• EKSF-TeleCities internal meeting (AGM agenda, voting, reporting…)

• Social event: concert in Bethlehem Chapel, dinner

  

• Chair: Chris Newby, President of EKSF-TeleCities, Liverpool City Council
• Jerzy Kropiwnicki, Mayor of Lodz (Poland):
  Signature of eRights Charter

  

• Oldřich Vlasák, President of The Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Rep., member of European Parliament:
  Czech municipalities towards information society

  

• Werner B. Korte, empirica GmbH, Germany:
  Introduction and guide through the workshop

  

• Chair: Werner B. Korte, empirica GmbH, Germany

  

• Dr. Wolfgang Both, Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Frauen, Berlin:
  eGovernment GP Case: www.berlin.de a public-private partnership city portal, Germany

  

• Keld Borup, Head of Taxpayer Services Told- og Skattestyrelsen (Denmark):
  eGovernment GP Case: SelfKey bv Danish Customs and Tax Administration

  

• Brendan Hughes, eBusiness Manager / John Creedon, Director - Information Technology, Vhi Healthcare (Ireland):
  eHealth GP Case: Vhi Healthcare Portal, Ireland

  

• Bob Gann, Director - NHS Direct New Media (United Kingdom):
  eHealth GP Case: NHS Direct Online, United Kingdom

  

• Ralf Kellershohn, APOLL Online (Germany):
  eLearning GP Case: APOLL - Alpha Portal Literacy Learning, Germany

  

• Discussion, pause

• Chair: Gareth Hughes, Director European Regional Information Society Association (ERIS@)

  

Future Policy Action/Intervention and Research Requirements relating to:

• - key challenges for the wider implementation of inclusive, interoperable and cost-effective online service provision
  
  - knowledge gaps and research requirements
  
  - priorities for policy intervention at regional and European level

Panelists:

• Kevin Cullen, eInclusion Project, Work Research Centre, Dublin (Ireland)

  

• Krzysztof Glomb, Cities on the Internet Association (Poland)

  

• Dave Carter, Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) (United Kingdom)

  

• Albert P. Deistler, City of Cologne, Mayor's Office - International Affairs (Germany)

  

• Chris Haynes, SOCITM, Senior Advisor ODPM, UK Government

  

• Werner B. Korte, eUser Project, empirica GmbH (Germany)

• Conclusions and summary of the conference by Chris Newby, President of EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum - Telecities, Liverpool City Council