EU eGovernment R&D Newsletter
From the eGovernment unit (H2), DG Information Society and Media, European Commission http://europa.eu.int/egovernment_research
1. Events
Impact of eGovernment - workshop, Brussels 1 June 2005
Participate in a major discussion between Member States, industry and academia at the upcoming workshop in Brussels, 1 July 2005: "Toward a European eGovernment Measurement Framework and Economic Model". Max. 100 participants. Registration and agenda at: http://www.rso.it/eGEP/Static/E_FWorkshop_II.asp?ST=0&page=
Good Practice Workshop, Brussels, 17 June 2005
"European Good Practice Framework - Opportunities and support tools to promote eGovernment throughout Europe", part of the eGovernment Good Practice Framework, see below.
http://www.egov-goodpractice.org/
Registration: olaf.terbeznik@bearingpoint.com
eGovernment legal and organisational barriers workshop, Antwerp, 17 June 2005
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/e-government/site/
The event is part of the European Conference on e-Government:
http://www.academic-conferences.org/eceg2005/eceg2005-home.htm
UK Ministerial eGovernment Conference 2005, "Transforming Public Services", Manchester 24-25. November 2005.
Participants from all levels of government in EU25 as well as industry and academia discuss how eGovernment now must deliver the benefits.
2. Policy and Good Practice
Commission launches five-year strategy to boost the digital economy (01.06.2005)
i2010 is a comprehensive strategy for modernising and deploying all EU policy instruments to encourage the development of the digital economy: regulatory instruments, research and partnerships with industry. eGovernment and public services is a key part of this effort: http://europa.eu.int/i2010
Competitiveness program (CIP)
The 4.2B€ (2007-13) CIP-programme targets three areas: Innovation, ICT policy support (i2010 support program) and intelligent energy. The ICT Policy Support programme has a proposed budget of 0.8B€ (2007-13) plus 93 M€ from eContentplus (in 2007-2008) and shall ensure the uptake and best use of ICT. CIP builds on the work of eTEN, eContentplus, and MODINIS. The proposal was adopted by the Commission on 6 April: http://europa.eu.int/comm/enterprise/enterprise_policy/cip/index_en.htm
European Commission, DG Information Society and Media now launches the eGovernment Good Practice Framework (GPFW)
GPFW promotes the exchange of eGovernment good practice cases across Europe:
http://www.egov-goodpractice.org/
Other MODINIS studies
eGEP looks at eGovernment expenditure, economics, and will produce a Measurement Framework by early 2006: http://www.rso.it/eGEP/
eGovernment legal and organisational barriers looks at legal and organisational barriers: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/e-government/site/
Interoperability at Local and Regional Level: http://www.egov-iop.ifib.de/
3. eGovernment R&D
The 7th framework program (FP7) under discussion.
The 73B€ FP7 (2007-13) has an IST part with a proposed budget of 12,7BM€ (2007-13) and the theme of “ICT based research infrastructure”. It shall master and shape ICT development, increasing to 1,8B€/year. From 0.9B€/year in FP6.