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Potential of e-Infrastructures to support
e-Government Services
EISCO 2008 Naples, 26th September 2008
Krystyna Marek European Commission - DG
INFSO Unit GÉANT e-Infrastructure
"The views expressed in this presentation are
those of the author and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the European Commission"
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Who we are
DG INFSO
Mission "GÉANT e-Infrastructure" supports an
innovative way of conducting scientific research
(referred to as e-Science) by the creation of a
new environment for academic and industrial
research in which virtual communities share,
federate and exploit the collective power of
European scientific facilities.
Unit F3
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Presentation Outline
Science is changing in similar ways The
challenges ahead governments Who we are and
what we do e-Infrastructures The rationale
behind Network, Grid and Data e-Infrastructures
Towards Global Research Communities Potential of
e-Infrastructures for e-Government Policy
context Examples of running projects
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Science is changing

• The change is pushed by continuing progress in
  computing and ICT

• It is pulled by the expanding complexity, scope
  and scale of todays challenges

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Todays (tomorrows) science

• Information/Data intensive
• Capability and capacity of scientific devices,
  storage systems, computers and networks
• Using simulation and modelling
• Especially when physical experiments cannot be
  easily performed (climatology, astrophysics)
• Collaborative and distributed

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ICT infrastructures for science
Sharing and federating scientific data
Sharing computers, instruments and applications
Linking at the speed of the light
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e-Infrastructures 5 vectors
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GÉANT connecting Europe

• High speed computer network reserved for research
  and education use
• Connects 30 National Research and Education
  Networks (NRENs)
• Hybrid architecture
• connectivity at 10 Gb/s
• 50 000 km of
• optical fibre links

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GÉANT global reach
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EGEE large multi-science grids

• Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE)
• Provides grid services available
• to scientists 24/7
• Computer power and data storage capacity
• Connects more than 240 sites in 45 countries
• 100 000 jobs are completed per day from different
  scientific domains

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Data as an infrastructure
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eInfrastructure and government

• Governments responsible for administration,
  decision making and policy making, service
  delivery
• Government is potentially important user of
  e-Infrastructures, providing an environment with
  specific characteristics
• related with democratic governance in
  knowledgebased society (privacy and trust)
• and others

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• Information/Data intensive
• Using simulation and modelling
• Collaborative and distributed

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Cyberinfrastructure and e-Government

• The delivery of government services can also
  benefit from the potential of shared computing
  and data storage, systematic integration of
  disparate data sources, shared and virtual
  collaboration across organizational boundaries.

• Cyber-Infrastructure and e-Government The
  Perspective of Government CIOs
• http//egov.epfl.ch/UserFiles/File/CIO20Symposium
  20Program_final.pdf

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Aho Report 2008

• Information Society Research and Innovation
  Delivering results with sustained impact (May
  2008)
• The interconnection of large regional and
  national e-Infrastructures should be further
  developed.
• EU-wide platforms and infrastructures are needed
  in sectors such as e-Government (especially
  procurement), e-Health (cross-border
  applications), logistics and transport.

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ERINA study

• Recommendations for Exploiting Research
  Infrastructure Potential in Key Areas of the
  Information Society
• (eGovernment, eHealth and eLearning)
• Study investigated the benefits of using
  e-Infrastructures beyond research
• analysed whether the use of advanced information
  technologies in these areas would stimulate
  innovation
• confirmed the potential of adopting
  e-Infrastructures in key areas of the Information
  Society.

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Connectivity

• Eduroam
• EDUcation ROAMing
• Open your laptop and be online
• The roaming infrastructure used by the
  international research and education community
  that provides secure Internet access.
• While the network access is granted by the
  visited institution, the authentication is done
  by the home one.

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Grid computing

• CYCLOPS
• Cyber-Infrastructure for CiviL protection
  Operative ProcedureS
• Aims at developing enabling e-infrastructures and
  virtual organisation services to serve specific
  GMES applications.
• Improvement in the effectiveness of Civil
  Protection coordination and planning.

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Data repositories
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Anticipated benefits for government

• Providing new/improved services
• Joining-up research efforts in Europe
• Collaborating with other regions
• Facilitating policy development
• Technical development (improved efficiency of
  operations)
• Using RD money better!

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Further information
www.cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/e-infrastructure/
krystyna.marek_at_ec.europa.eu
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Thank you