Programme of the eGovernment Conference "Alliance with Users"
11. February 2008, Brdo, Slovenia

9:30-10:20

Welcome and Opening

• Opening, Dušan Kričej, CIO, Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia

Keynote Speakers

• eGovernment - Alliance with Users (pdf, 91 KB), Dr. Gregor Virant, Minister, Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia
  
• Make the Alliance with Users Work, Antti Peltomaki, Deputy Director-General, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission

10:20-11:20

Alliance from User Perspective

Chair: Dušan Kričej, CIO, Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia

• View and Experiences of Chamber of Craft and Small Business on Reduction of Administrative Burden in Slovenia and EU, Mr. Miroslav Klun, Director, Chamber of Craft and Small Business of Slovenia, Slovenia
• eParticipation and eInclusion in the Era of Web 2.0 , dr. Julia Glidden (pdf, 1044 KB), Managing Director, 21c consultancy, United Kingdom
• IT Implementation of Services- Challenges and Opportunities (pdf, 124 KB), dr. Andreas Tegge, Chair of EICTA's eGovernment Committee, EICTA

11:20-11:50

Coffee break

11:50-13:10

Alliance from National Perspectives

Chair: Marie Munk, Deputy Director General, National IT and Telecom Agency, Denmark

• Case Inclusive eGovernment: IT Makes a Difference (pdf, 21 KB), Paul Waller, Director, Digital Inclusion Team, United Kingdom
• Case Interoperability: Company Start-up Whenever and Wherever - Reality or Fiction (pdf, 752 KB), Teja Batagelj, Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia
• Case Reduction of Administrative Burden for Companies:How do we Use eGovernment Tools to Reduce Administrative Burdens? (pdf, 827 KB) , Julie Martin, Agence pour la simplification administrative, Belgium
• Case Reduction of Administrative Burden for Citizens: Alliance with Users - the Dutch Approach (pdf, 683 KB) , Kees Keuzenkamp, Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands

13:10-14:30

Lunch & Press Conference

13:10-18:00

E-GOVERNMENT ALIVE

Live, interactive and rolling-on presentations of applications on:

eDemocracy (Steklena Hall 1)

Virtual 3D Government
(Steklena Hall 2)

Interoperable Pan-EU Pilot
(Steklena Hall 3)

end of interactive presentations

14:30-14:45

Keynote Address

Siim Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission

14:45-16:00

Alliance from EU Perspective

Chair: David Broster, Head of Unit for eGovernment and CIP operations, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission

• Flagship Services for Inclusive eGovernment (pdf, 89KB), Jeremy Millard, Teknologisk, Denmark
• IDABC European Interoperability Framework (pdf, 453 KB), Karel de Vriendt, IDABC head of unit, Directorate General for Informatics, European Commission
• Ambitions of European Initiatives in eID and eProcurement
• STORK, Take-off Towards European eID Interoperability (pdf, 219 KB), Frank Leyman, Fedict, Belgium
• Interoperable Public e-Procurement in the EU (pdf, 181 KB), Dr. Peter Sonntagbauer and Josef Makolm,  Austrian Federal Computing Center and Ministry of Finance, Austria
• 25% Reduction in Administrative Burden by 2012: Implications for the EU (pdf, 865 KB), Graham Colclough, Vice President Global Public Sector, Capgemini

16:00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:30

Future of Alliance

Chair: Dr. Mechthild Rohen, Deputy Head of Unit for eGovernment and CIP operations, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission

• Lisbon Ministerial Declaration Follow-up and Draft Council Conclusions, Anabela Pedroso, Presidente do Conselho Directivo, Agency for Administration Modernization, Portugal and David Broster, Head of Unit, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission
• The Future of eGovernment: Examining the Evidence and State-of-Play, Trond-Arne Undheim, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission
• eGovernment Funding Perspective 2008 and Beyond (pdf, 472 KB), David Broster, Head of Unit, Information Society and Media Directorate General, European Commission

17:30-17:50

Know-How Transfer and Summary of Alliance

Chair: Roman Rep, LL.M, State Secretary at the Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia

• Centre for eGovernance Development for South-Eastern Europe (pdf, 104 KB), Domen Bizjak, Secretary-General, Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia
• Summary of Alliance (pdf, 71 KB), dr. Davorka Šel, Secretary, Ministry of Public Administration, Slovenia

18:00

Closing

20:00

Dinner