LORIS--Local and regional information society April 2--4, 2006, Prague & Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic

e-Government workshop--Austrian and Dutch best practices

On Sunday 2nd, workshop will take place in Nove Adalbertinum from 17:15--18:45.

Mr. Christian Rupp, Federal Executive Secretary E-Government Austria from Austrian Federal Chancellery will present keynote speech on Austrian approach to implementation of e-government and experience gained. Austrian legislative is, due to the historical bonds, similar to legal systems of other Central European countries, thus this workshop can be very fruitful to representatives of government as well as ICT suppliers and developers.

Netherland view on experience with e-Government coordination on state, regional and local levels will be presented by Mr. Wim van 't Hof from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs.

This meeting is planned from 17:15 to 18:45 as an opening event of the whole ISSS/LORIS/V4DIS 2006 conference and will take place in Nove Adalbertinum, in the centre of Hradec Kralove.

Presentations and following discussion will be in English language only.

Responsible person for the whole meeting and its arrangement is Mr. Ondrej Felix, president of SPIS (ondrejf@spis.cz, cell 0042 724 217 021).