The eProcurement Forum

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The eProcurement Forum

• Electronic Public Procurement in South-East
  Europe
• 26th February 2009 - Athens
• Eva Coscia
• eProcurement Forum facilitator
• TXT e-solutions

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Outline

• Context and Mission
• The ePractice environment
• The services
• What can you do?
• One year after....
• Is the Forum successful?
• What next?

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Context

• Various initiatives happening at the same time
  (see the eProcurement Map)
• Large number of stakeholders
• Too much information
• Risks of
• Duplicated work
• Diverging results no interoperability

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The Objective

• All eProcurement professionals aware of each
  other activities
• Expected result reduce effort to implement and
  maintain ePP solutions
• How?
• Fostering knowledge exchange and reuse
• Selecting information and making it easily
  accessible
• Encouraging discussions and sharing of doubts

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The ePractice.eu craddle

• portal launched and maintained by the European
  Commission
• Three main sectors eGovernment, eHealth,
  eInclusion
• Free access, open to contributions
• gt15400 members from 49 countries
• 20 communities hosted

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ePractice services

• Knowledge repository
• Catalogue of projects (cases)
• Library of documents
• List of interested professionals
• Workshops Events
• News
• Online exchange (Blog, comments, messages)

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Forum homepage

• http//www.epractice.eu/community/eprocurement
• contains
• Presentation and useful information
• List of members
• Highlighted contents
• Community Blog
• Shared Document
• Facilitators list

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Welcome page

• Community presentation
• Links to additional internal pages
• Highlighted contents
• List of members
• List of facilitators

NEW PICTURE!!!!
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Community specific services

• Registered members can
• Share Documents
• Post in the community Blog
• Receive a community newsletter
• Receive reports prepared by the Forum team
• Profit of facilitations for event attendance
  (free passes, discounts)
• Receive support for event workshop
  organisation

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Co-branded workshops
This workshop is co-branded by ePractice and
organised in cooperation with the Forum
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You can contribute by...

• Joining the community
• Making your profile complete and public
• Submitting eProcurement cases
• Informing us about news and events
• Sharing the results of studies, researches and
  other activities
• Providing your opinion and participating to
  debates on the Blog
• Inviting other people

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One year after...

• gt 430 members (74 after 12 months) from 33
  European Countries.
• 73 case (26 after 12 months) from 27 countries
• 2 workshops
• 52 key documents

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Is it just a web2.0 toy for eGov experts?

• ...we believe not!
• Key people from the relevant eProcurement
  initiatives are there
• 80 active members
• ePractice Profiles are used by experts in other
  contexts
• Some experts met for the first time thanks to the
  Forum
• Some cases have already registered gt1000 accesses
• Several events co-branded

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Learning from the experience

• Dynamics of the community analysed
• some obstacles identified
• corrective actions will be put in place
• to simplify and increase participation
• to make the community more profitable
• New version of ePractice will be launched next
  month

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Objectives for the next future

• Monitor relevant initiatives and working groups
• Make their cooperation as effective as possible
• Intensify contacts and discussions with the
  Member States
• Encourage re-use of existing solutions
• Continue the collection of feedback and success
  stories

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Thanks!

• Eva Coscia
• profile http//www.epractice.eu/people/ecoscia
• mail eprocurement_at_epractice.eu