eCapacity Building Workshop

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• eCapacity Building Workshop
• A EUROPEAN INITIATIVE ON
• i2010 DIGITAL LOCAL AGENDA
• Javier Ossandon
• President ELANET (CEMR)

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i2010 Digital Local Agenda

• Process like Local Agenda 21
• for sustainable development
• Involving Cities and Towns,
• specially small Local
• Governments (below 20.000 inh.)
• Based on the Bilbao declaration and
• the i2010 Digital Local Agenda
• initiative of ELANET (CEMR)

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i2010 Digital Local Agenda

• Bottom-up approach but aware of what
• the regional and national eGovernment
• strategies are
• Key words
• Modernisation using ICT
• Integration of data bases and systems
• Networking
• inside the local government and in
• a given territory
• for eGovernment service delivery

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Actual i2010 priorities

• eGovernment
• eInclusion
• eHealth

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European Financial tools

• VII FP on Research and Technology Development
• - support action
• CIP (competitiveness and innovation)
• - network building
• eInclusion pilot projects (towards eInclusion
  
• 2008 programme
• - requires agreement with nat. Governments
• Interreg 3C
• - requires regional presentation

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Project Ideas

• Build an i2010 Digital Local Agenda framework
• at European level targeting local public
• administrations in danger of eExclusion
• Knowledge and technology transfer
• - Digital Local Agenda model and
• roadmap
• - Products
• - Assessing tools
• - Methodologies

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Project Ideas

• eCapacity Building at local level
• - Core competences
• - Management of change ICT-based
• in admnistrations
• - Business cass
• Sharing of experiences for problem-solving
• - FAQ system
• - Repository on good practices solutions
• - Expert consultation
• - Forums (thematic areas)

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Project Ideas

• Sustainability strategy based on subscriptions
• Development of international team able to cope
  with
• the initiative based on local supporting
  sytems in the
• participating countries

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Project Core Activities

• Development of a dedicated portal for eCapacity
• Building and i2010 Digital Local Agenda
  (European
• and domestic). Promote and monitor the process
• Deployment of an eCapacity Building network
• throughout Europe
• Promotional programme for engagement of
• intermediaries dealing with Local
• administrations in danger of eExclusion
• Validation of methodologies tools and
  instruments in
• a selected group of European regions