Vysocina Region Regional Authority, IT department

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Vysocina RegionRegional Authority, IT department

• e-Communities e-Inclusion

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Basic facts on Vysocina region
One from 14 Czech regions Area 6925
m2 Population522 846
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Basic facts on Vysocina region

• 9 of the territory of the whole CR
• 5 of population
• 5 districts, 729 municipalities (!!)
• 500 municipalities on-line (using email)
• 193 incorporated institutions (schools,
  hospitals, ...)
• 350 users in regional authority
• ICT budget for 2004 1 mil EUR
• 15 employees of ICT dep.

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Vysocina participation on Prelude
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Vysocinas Prelude projects

• DA Basic Service Delivery
• ePUSA web portal of regional self-governments
• SDZA agendas administration and navigation
• KEVIS - officials agendas effective
  administration
• ePODATELNA electronic registry, dynamic XML
  forms
• DA Health and Social Services
• Vysocina BezBarier Regional web portal for
  people with disabilities

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How to reach eCommunities benefits in public
administration

• regional view from ICT back office
• head of IT department

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How to get real benefits from ICT

• sufficient knowledge of demand and needs of end
  users
• strict procurement
• to achieve transparency and future efficiency
• precise definition of entries
• clearly defined demand for quality (role of
  representatives and policy makers)
• internal metrics and auditing system defined in
  advance
• analysis of public and user feedback

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How to get real benefits from ICT

• thinking to have open public administration
  controlled by all citizens
• new personal data protection rules against open
  services
• introduction of totally new public services
• free WiFi hotspots, cheap broadband and backbone
  infrastructure
• huge role of public administration in e-Inclusion
  
• market economy behavior against new types of
  disadvantaged groups

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Problems with stressing only benefits

• general knowledge of policy makers and consumers
• education is still slower than ICT development
• new needs of information and knowledge age
• cost of development and implementation of
  high-techs
• longer term lowering of market value of new
  technologies
• decreasing speed of technological evolution
• access to ICT driven by state aid and
  interventions or supporting new technology
• (taxes, supporting programs against cell phones
  and mobile internet)

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Contact

• Vysocina Regional Authority
• IT department
• Žižkova 57
• 587 33 Jihlava
• Ing. Petr Pavlinec (pavlinec.p_at_kr-vysocina.cz)
• http//www.kr-vysocina.cz