ePractice Mid-Term workshop - 19 May 2008

On May 19, 2008, one year after its launch, the ePractice.eu portal
will celebrate a Mid-Term workshop. The one-day event will be held in
Brussels, in the European Commission’s premises, with the presence of
high-level officials responsible of the eGovernment, eInclusion and
eHealth European policies and relevant experts from the private and
public sectors.

Designed as a hands-on learning and networking experience, the workshop
aims to bring together representatives of public authorities,
policy-makers, IT experts, academics and industry managers to discuss
best practices in e-transformation from the European perspective.

Key actors in the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth domains will be
in charge of delivering the keynote speeches, where they will outline
the challenges ahead and bring forward questions that will be discussed
by the audience based on their expertise and involvement in real life
projects in different countries.

The expected outcome:
- Present and discuss the 6 best cases in the eGovernment, eInclusion and eHealth domains published in ePractice.eu
- Achieve key learnings for all workshop participants, independently from their domains
- Add value through relevant keynote speeches
- Offer a high level discussion panel
- Provide networking opportunities
- Cover topics of main general interest
- Provide input on the development of the ePractice.eu portal

The participants’ role:
Participants are expected to contribute with their expertise to one of
the three working groups, where real-life good practice cases will be
evaluated in order to analyse the challenges encountered and how to
overcome them.

Fees:
Register here
for this workshop. Attendance is free of charge. Seats are limited and
will be filled in a first-come, first-served basis. If you are not yet
an ePractice member, before signing up for the workshop you need to register

European Commission
DG Information Society and Media - BU25
Avenue de Beaulieu 25
Brussels

10:00-10:15	Opening and welcome. Agenda presentation and objectives of the session	David Broster (eGovernment Head of Unit, European Commission)
10:15–10:30	Introductory remarks	Gérard Comyn (Director, DG Information Society, Directorate H ICT for Societal Challenges, European Commission)
10:30–10:45	ePractice presentation. Latest features & functionalities, current developments and perspectives	Pierre Antoine Ullmo (General Manager, PAU Education, Spain)
10:45–11:15	Key note speech on eGovernment - Q&A	David Osimo (Researcher, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Spain)
11:15–11:45	Coffee break
11:45–12:15	Key note speech on eInclusion - Q&A	Giuseppe Paruolo (Deputy Mayor for Health, Communication & ICT Bologna - Italy, and Chair of the Eurocities Knowledge Society Forum)
12:15–12:45	Key note speech on eHealth - Q&A	José Valverde (Scientific Officer, Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, Spain)
12:45–14:00	Lunch Break
	Parallel working sessions	In each session two ePractice cases will be presented and discussed
14:00–15:30	WS1 - eGovernment Theme: Challenges of implementing one-stop-shops to deliver better eGovernment services - Case 1: HoReCA1 (One-stop-shop for business, Government Award winner 2007) - Case 2: Mypage (One-stop-shop for citizens, eGovernment Award winner 2007) - Case discussions	Chair: David Broster (eGovernment Head of Unit, European Commission) - Maurice van Erven (Economic Development Department, City of Amsterdam, Netherlands) - Tor Alvik (Project Manager, Agency for Public Managment and eGoverment, Norway)
14:00–15:30	WS2 - eInclusion Theme: Local authorities agenda for eInclusion - Case 3: City of Ghent, A strategic program battle against the digital divide - Case 4: First steps in the ICT in Wallonia - Case discussions	Chair: Paul Timmers (eInclusion Head of Unit, European Commission) - Martine Delannoy (Programme director Digital Divide Ghent, Belgium) - Pierre Colle (Agence Wallone des Télécommunication, Belgium)
14:00–15:30	WS3 - eHealth Theme: New Concepts of Healthcare in Europe - Case 5: Automatic treatment controlling using text mining - Case 6: NHS London (case tbc) - Case discussions	Chair: Ilias Iakovidis (eHealth Deputy Head of Unit, European Commission) - Stefan Hunziker (Director for Medical Informatics, Luzern Hospital, Switzerland) - Vince Pross (Director for Procurement, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, UK)
15:30-16:00	Conclusions of the parallel sessions	Chair: David Broster (eGovernment Head of Unit, European Commission) - eGovernment: François Heinderyckx (Dept of Information and Communication Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) - eInclusion: Paul Timmers (eInclusion Head of Unit, European Commission) - eHealth: Diane Whitehouse (Analyst, The Castlegate Consultancy, UK)
16:00-16:15	Concluding remarks	Karel De Vriendt (Head of Unit, IDABC, Informatics DG, European Commission)
16:15-16:30	Closing and wrap up	David Broster (eGovernment Head of Unit, European Commission)
16:30–17:30	Farewell coffee