Smart Cities

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Smart Cities

• - better e-services for citizens and businesses

Ellen Karin Larsen, KS
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KS The Norwegian assossiation of local and
regional authorities

• National municipal member organzation
• 430 municipalities
• 19 counties
• approx. 500 public enterprises
• approx. 250 employees (150 at the head office in
  Oslo and 100 in regional offices)

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Smart Cities

• facilitate the transfer of e-Government successes
  across national borders
• identify and support the real transformational
  impact on local government service delivery
• equip decision makers with the knowledge and
  motivation
• iclude national authorities

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Smart Cities

• understand which e-services are best and why
• reconsider how services are delivered and which
  channels they should use
• reorganise their internal service delivery
  processes and back office functions
• develop a prototype North Sea Region/EU-wide
  service list

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Partners (Interreg 4B North Sea Region)
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Benefits for KS - and CEMR?(CEMR - Council of
European Municipalities and Regions)

• In this context, Europe is small
• All local authorities offer largely the same
  services, regardless of nationality
• Close cooperation between municipalities in
  Europe through common organization CEMR
• Use of projects for joint benefit

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• Smart Cities shows that benefits can only be
  realised through change in organisation and work
  processes

eKommune 2012
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Managers with sufficient knowledge

• eCapacity building for civil servants
• sufficient knowledge for senior executive
  officers to realise benefits of ICT investments
• joint project CEMSDI
• Partners Norway, UK, Spain, Italy, Czeck
  Republic, Portugal

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Collaborating in making ICT strategies
CEMR manual on Implementing strategies for local
and regional eGovernment Guiding national
associations of local and regional authorities to
assist their municipalities and regions in
implementing a Digital Agenda at local
level. Partners All CEMRs members