International Workshop e-Government and its Spatial Dimension

International Workshop e-Government and its Spatial Dimension

Sofia, Kempinski Hotel
Friday, 9 June 2006

It is our pleasure to invite you to the workshop "e-Government and its Spatial Dimension" that the South East European Research Centre (SEERC) is organising with URSIT Ltd. in Sofia Bulgaria on Friday 09 June 2006 at the Kempinski Hotel.

Objective

The objective of the workshop is to review the status of e-Government in the countries of South East Europe in view of the oncoming European accession and to examine its dependencies on local conditions. Based on possible relation to prevailing conditions in a given country, the workshop will explore to what extent e-Government improvement is proportionate to these conditions. Case studies will be presented.

Aims

The workshop has the following broad aims:

To explore the relation of e-Government development to specific circumstances and environment of a country.
To point to relevant European Union Programmes.
To provide insight into the technology dimension with regard to the ways in which ICT can support spatially dependent E-government.
To examine the applicability of these concepts to a number of specific policy areas such as: social policy, migration policy, regional policy, economic policy, and environmental policy.
To present case studies from the European Union.

Attached, you will find the final programme. The workshop is open to anyone interested in participating; there is no fee for participation but registration is necessary.

To fill in the registration form please visit: www.seerc.info/egov2006 For any questions, contact: egov2006@seerc.info

The working language of the workshop is English.

PROGRAMME

09:00	Registration
09:30 - 10:00	Opening Mr. Nikolay VASSILEV, Minister, Ministry of State Administration and Administrative Reform, Bulgaria (tbc) Mr. Nikos ZAHARIS, Director (SEERC) Dr. Dimitris DRANIDIS, Lecturer, (CITY Liberal Studies) Mr. Ulrich BOES, URSIT Ltd., Bulgaria
10:00 - 10:30	"e-Government in Bulgaria", Dr. Alexander OGNIANOV, Ministry of State Administration and Administrative Reform, Bulgaria.
10:30 - 11:00	"Implementing E-Government and GIS solutions in City of Skopje, problems, obstacles, concepts and solutions", Mr. Goran BONEVSKI, Head of Department for IT and Modernization, City of Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
11:00-11:30	"Review on development of SDI as a basis of E-Government in Croatia", Mr. Ivo LANDEK, Assistant Director, State Geodetic Authority, Croatia.
11:30 - 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 - 12:30	"e-Government projects in Greece developed in a research environment", Dr. Poulicos PRASTACOS, Director of Research, Regional Analysis Division, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation for Research and Technology, Greece.
12:30 - 13:00	"Local-to-Global: e-Government, digital participation and the GINIE Project", Dr. Robin SMITH, GIS Analyst, Informatics Collaboratory of the Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.
13:00 - 13:30	"Applying an e-procurement system in Healthcare: Benefits, Criteria for success & Obstacles (The EPOS paradigm)", Mr. Kostas Kaggelides, Technical Director, Gnomon Informatics, Thessaloniki, Greece
13:30	End of Workshop -Feel free to disseminate this announcement to any interested parties-