Introduction

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Introduction Welcome
Gareth Hughes Project Director, IANIS
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Some facts about I A N I S
? Theme Information Society ( eEuropeRegio
) ? Consortium 28 regions and 4 private
sector partners. Of the 28 regions, 24 are eris_at_
members ? Lead Region The Free State of
Saxony (Germany) ? Coordinator eris_at_ ?
Budget EUR 1,028,000 ? Co-Finance 50 (
DG Regio ) ? Duration 2 years ( October 2002
- September 2004 ) ? Next Steps Meeting on
24 Sept (in Brussels) to begin preparation for a
successor proposal
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I A N I S Recent Forthcoming Events
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I A N I S Web-based Information Management and
Dissemination

• At the heart of the IANIS work programme is the
  development of a dynamic and interactive portal -
  the eRegion Hub.
• The First Release was launched this week but
  subsequent releases will comprise a wide range of
  features and information, employing a knowledge
  management system
• www.ianis.net OR www.eRegion-Hub.net

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• eris_at_ has its origins in the Inter-Regional
  Information Society Initiative (IRISI, 6 regions,
  1994) and the Regional Information Society
  Initiative (RISI, 22 regions, 1996).
• These 28 regions, with the support of the
  European Commission, established eris_at_ under
  Belgian Law in 1998 as an international
  not-for-profit association.
• Today, eris_at_ has 45 member regions which have a
  combined population in excess of 150 million
  people. It also has 3 corporate members.
• eris_at_ membership is open to all EU regions and to
  regions in the NAS.
• eris_at_ is based in Brussels.

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RECENT CURRENT WORK OF eris_at_
eris_at_ is engaged in a number of activities at the
European, national and regional levels

• THEMIS The THEMatic evaluation of the
  Information Society in the Structural Funds,
  2000-06, for DG Regio.
• AEGIS Analysis and Evaluation of Greek regional
  Information Society business plans for the Greek
  National Ministry for the Economy.
• PRELUDE Key partner in this 5th Framework (FP5)
  project preparing the ground to support the local
  and regional dimension in the FP6 (IST).
• 3 ROSES Collaboration with two other important
  European networks, ELANET Tele-Cities, working
  on road map for OSS for local regional
  government applications.
• TerreGOV COCOON FP6 projects on eGovernment
  and eHealth at the local and regional level.

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• www.ianis.net
• or
• www.eRegion-Hub.net

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