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1st virtual vernissage
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Congress Centre ALDIS, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic
 Telecities Seminar
The initiative will be the first East-West Telecities Seminar organised in
connection with the Union of Towns and Communities of the Czech Republic and the Office
for the State Information System in Hradec Kralove.
The seminar, the first Telecities seminar of the millennium, will focus on the
subject of Internet in Public Administration. A special session on the Global Cities
Dialogue will be organised for the signature of the Declaration from Mayors of main Cities
from East Europe.
The event includes three main parts:
- The signature of the Global Cities Dialogue' declaration;
- A conference on "Internet in Public Administration";
- Working Groups, including an information and brokerage session for participation
to the IST programme of the European Commission;
Sunday 26th of March
SOCIAL PROGRAMME in PRAGUE and HRADEC KRALOVE
Monday 27th of March
| 10:00 |
Opening of the Conference
Oldrich Vlasak, Mayor of Hradec Kralove
Pavel Mertlik, Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic |
| 10.15 |
Information systems and public administration reform in CR
Pavel Mertlik, Deputy Prime Minister of the Czech Republic |
| 10:45 |
E-Europe--Information Society for all
Jorg Wenzel, Chief Executive ISAC, European Commission |
| 11:30--12:30 |
GLOBAL CITIES DIALOGUE: Cities from all over the world for the
Information Society |
| 11:30--11:40 |
Welcome by the Jan Kasl, Lord Mayor of Prague
Welcome by Mariella Gramaglia, Telecities President, City of Rome |
| 11:40--11:55 |
Presentation of the Global Cities Dialogue by Prof. Alfonso
Molina, The University of Edinburgh |
| 11:55--12:30 |
SIGNATURE CEREMONY: at least 10 Mayors from main East
Europe Cities will sign the declaration of the Global Cities Dialogue.
The signature of the declaration has been launched in Helsinki during the IST Conference
by the Lord Mayor of Helsinki and up to now more than 20 cities from all over the world
have subscribed the declaration.
The Ceremony will see the presence of political representatives from Telecities
(President: Mrs. Mariella Gramaglia, city of Rome, Mr. Bruno Peters, city of Antwerpen,
and others) and of the senior representatives of the European Commission (Mr. Jorg Wenzel,
Chief Executive ISAC, EC); |
| 12:20--12:30 |
Closing speech
Jorg Wenzel, Chief Executive ISAC, European Commission and others |
| 12:40 |
PRESS CONFERENCE |
| 13:00--14:30 |
LUNCH BREAK |
| 14:30--18:00 |
THE TELECITIES SEMINAR (Plenary session)
Welcome by the President of the Union of Cities and Towns of the Czech Republic, Mr. Evzen Tosenovsky;
Introduction by the Telecities President, Mrs. Mariella Gramaglia; |
| 15:00--16:00 |
First plenary Session on E-COMMERCE in PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION.
The session will focus on the issue of legal requirements for E-Commerce in Public
Administration.
Chairperson: Ms. Mirta Michilli
Legal issues for Public Administration on the Internet. The situation in Europe by
CRID
Ms. Florence de Villenfagne, Researcher at Centre de Recherche Informatique et
Droit (CRID) in Belgium
Overview of Legal Requirements for E-Commerce use in PA. The situation in
the Czech Republic;
Mr. Vladimir Smejkal
e-shop of the Helsinki Presentation of a good practice from the City of Helsinki
Mr. Raija Ollikainen |
| 16:00--16:30 |
BREAK |
| 16:30--17:30 |
Second plenary Session
E-GOVERNMENT
The session will focus on e-government experiences from East and West European Cities
Chairperson: Mr. Paul Van der Cruyssen
Czech Action Plan for Information Society in Public Administration
Mr. Frantisek Dohnal, Union of Towns and Communities of the Czech
Republic
Citizen's Mall (A new approach to the Citizen/Public Administration
relationship)
Ms. Anabela Pedroso, Lisbon
Latvian Unified Municipal Information System
Mr. Juris Mikelsons, Riga
Gdansk experience in applying teleinformatics for establishing co-operation
between local governments and the community
(presentation of an e-government experience)
Mr. Wieslaw Patrzek |
| 17:30--18:00 |
CONCLUSION
Presentation of the Global Junior Challenge and of the Stockholm Challenge Award |
| 18:00 |
END of day one. |
Tuesday 28th of March
| 9:00--12:00 |
TELECITIES SEMINAR (Parallel sessions) |
| 8:30--9:00 |
TELECITIES WORKING GROUPS (first round of parallel
sessions)
- Smart Government, Mr. Martin van Rossum, Den Haag
- Electronic Democracy, Ms. Leda Guidi, Bologna
- The City of Tomorrow, Mr. Albert Deistler, Cologne
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| 9:30--10:30 |
TELECITIES WORKING GROUPS (second round of parallel
sessions)
- New Ways of Working--Public Administration to Business--electronic commerce applications
(PA2B) Ms. Pamela Finley, Nurnberg Accessibility
- New Ways of Working--Public Administration to
Consumer/Citizen/Customer/Client-electronic commerce applications (PA2C) Robert de
Beukelaar, Antwerp
- New Ways of Working-Public Administration to Public Administration-electronic commerce
applications (PA2PA) Mr. Dave Carter, Manchester
- Independent Living Ms. Susan Ng-A-Tham, Den Haag
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| 11:45--12:00 |
CONCLUSION OF THE TELECITIES SEMINAR |
| 12:30 |
"...on the road to Information Society"
ROUND TABLE organised by the ISSS Conference with the participation of the
Telecities President, Mr. Jose Cotta, Head of International Co-operation, European
Commission, DG Information Society |
| 15:00 |
CONCLUSION OF THE FULL EVENT
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In parallel to the event there will be an exhibition.
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