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Regions in the enlarged European Union

• Europe of different paces
• Cities and rural areas are not developing at the
  same pace
• Regions in Western Europe and in Middle and
  Eastern Europe are developing at different paces

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eGovernment

• Signifies assisted by information and
• communication technologies to
• organise administrative and business processes of
  administration
• support and further the dissemination of
  information
• support decision making in all public processes

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eGovernment

• Implies not only the modernisation of public
  administration but all processes in the context
  of the regional eDevelopment approach
• This includes the issues learning and
  qualification, work and economy

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eGovernmentfor structurally weak regions

• Regional approaches to eGovernment and
  cooperations
• represent regions
• By disseminating information increase the
  attractivity and appeal of the regions

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eGovernment for structurally weak regions

• Regional approaches to eGovernment and
  cooperation
• Modernise public administration
• Increase the friendliness/ accessibility of
  public services for citizens
• Increase the transparancy of decision making
  processes

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eGovernment for structurally weak regions

• Regional approaches to eGovernment and
  cooperation
• Open new learning areas and spaces
• Support the regional movement into the knowledge
  society by extending the access to and the
  promotion of the competencies of citizens

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eGovernmentfor structurally weak regions

• Regional approaches to eGovernment and
  cooperation
• Create new areas and space for the economy
• Promote the regional marketing of products
• Promote the regional cooperationen between small
  and medium sized enterprises

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Citizen Society and eGovernment

• Committed to further the political and social
  community
• Acknowledgement of each other as political
  subjects
• Representation will be complemented by
  participation

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Citizen Society and eGovernment

• Implication of eGovernment
• for citizen society
• New requirements and challenges for citizen
  society
• New opportunities for design and formation of
  society

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Challenges to municipalities

• Complicated financial terms of reference
• Strengthening of the cooperation of
  municipalities and communities in the border
  region
• Organisation of own modernisation
• Further qualification of employees

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Challenges to regions

• Regional eGovernment-services
• For the promotion of new economic supply and
  development
• In order to secure employment in the region

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Challenges facing the citizens

• Strengthening own online - competencies
• Building of own network and structures of
  citizens
• Development and debate of instruments and
  processes for the participation of citizens

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Objectives of the network eGovernment of the
Regions

• Trans-border, transparent und open transfer of
  experience and know-how. Organisation of a
  development process that enables the parties
  involved to define and implement different
  eGovernment projects with different or changing
  partners

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Objectives of the network eGovernment of the
Regions

• Projects should be based on or oriented towards
  the necessities and needs of the structurally
  weak regions
• Depending on the target groups it should develop
  appropriate innovative strategies of
  regionalised eGovernment.

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Objectives of the network eGovernment of the
Regions

• In order to support regional development and
  secure sustainable working processes the projects
  should be organised in publicprivate
  partnership.

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Participants in the network

• Among the members are representatives of research
  institutions, politics, economy, public
  administration, different civil society groups,
  labour, educational institutions from Berlin,
  Brandenburg, Baden-Württemberg and Poland.
• The cooperation is organised in a transborder
  German-Polish partnership.

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Participants in the network

• The network is open for institutions, local
  administration, public enterprises, NGOs,
  business, more especially small and medium sized
  enterprises and individuals, who join forces in
  order to develop concepts of eGovernment in the
  German and Polish regions
• The network is not organised as a legal entity or
  legal person

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Functioning of the network

• November 13, 2003 in Potsdam
• Foundation of the network
• Begin of the debate about joint projects and an
  interregional master plan
• March 1, 2004 in Poznan
• development of project recommendations

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Functioning of the network

• June 3, 2004 in Forst
• Forster Declaration Charter of the
  Polish-German network eGovernment of the
  regions Interregional eDevelopment IED

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Goals of the Forst Declaration

• Creation of a joint Polish German
  eGovernment-portal for municipalities and regions
• Development and implementation of a learning and
  transfer undertaking for the dissemination of
  critical success factors for municipal change
  management

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Goals of the Forst Declaration

• Creation of a joint trans-border Polish-German
  working plane for electronic business promotion
• Creation of a joint German-Polish working plane
  for electronic procurement procedures

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Goals of the Forst Declaration

• Creation of a working plane for
  inter-municipality eGovernment in order to
  strengthen the cooperation of German and Polish
  municipalities
• Development of a joint Polish German knowledge
  and learning platform
• Building of a partnership Polish German civil
  society

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Initiators of the Network

• Alcatel SEL Foundation for Communication Research
  
• Cities on Internet-Assoziation
• Forum social Formation of Technology
• Fraunhofer Institute Focus Berlin
• Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Brandenburg

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Chairing/ moderation of the network

• Heinrich-Böll-Foundation Brandenburg
• Inka Thunecke
• City of Forst (Lausitz)
• Sven Zuber
• s.zuber_at_forst-lausitz.de
• City of Zary (Lubuskie)
• Ireneusz Brzezinski
• ireneusz.brzezinski_at_um.zary.pl

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Contact

• Inka Thunecke
• thunecke_at_boell-brandenburg.de
• Order/ subscribe the newsletter
• organisation_at_boell-brandenburg.de
• Further information
• www.iednet.org

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Contact

• Dirk Arendt
• arendt_at_fokus.fraunhofer.de
• Welf Schröter
• schroeter_at_talheimer.de
• Krzysztof Glomb
• k.glomb_at_mwi.pl